

“Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.”
― Stand Still Like the Hummingbird
― Stand Still Like the Hummingbird

“We are, in the end, a sum of our parts, and when the body fails, all the virtues we hold dear go with it.”
― Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
― Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness

“Being is always becoming; people change and stay the same. What is true for bodies is also true for selves: even the most honest person has many faces, none of which are false.”
― Version Control
― Version Control

“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”
― The Books in My Life
― The Books in My Life

“Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular. But the realism is merely a mask for depression's actual essence, which is an overwhelming estrangement from humanity. The more persuaded you are of your unique access to the rottenness, the more afraid you become of engaging with the world; and the less you engage with the world, the more perfidiously happy-faced the rest of humanity seems for continuing to engage with it.”
― How to Be Alone
― How to Be Alone
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