Halley

“The brain is a monstrous, beautiful mess.”
― Susannah Cahalan, Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness

“The mind is like a circuit of
Christmas tree lights. When the
brain works well, all of the lights
twinkle brilliantly, and it’s adaptable
enough that, often, even if one bulb
goes out, the rest will still shine on.
But depending on where the
damage is, sometimes that one
blown bulb can make the whole
strand go dark.”
― Susannah Cahalan

“Society has put up so many boundaries, so many limitations on what’s right and wrong that it’s almost impossible to get a pure thought out. It’s like a little kid, a little boy, looking at colors, and no one told him what colors are good, before somebody tells you you shouldn’t like pink because that’s for girls, or you’d instantly become a gay two-year-old. Why would anyone pick blue over pink? Pink is obviously a better color. Everyone’s born confident, and everything’s taken away from you”
― Kanye West

“Maybe it’s true what Thomas Moore said: “It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed.”
― Susannah Cahalan, Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness