Bee Ostrowsky

“I’m so mad that my fingertips tingle; I feel like I could zap this man with the pent-up energy like a ragey adult Matilda. “Van Gogh was really sick!” I want to yell at him. “Tell your kid that mental illness can be very hard, and how important health care and access are, how we have to talk about it.”
― Kelly Jensen, [Don't] Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start the Conversation about Mental Health

“Stop saying the c-word." Moritz, I'm not looking for a cure. Really, I can't imagine being someone who didn't see the world how I do. Can you imagine if someone tried to hand you some eyeballs? You'd flush them down a toilet. With dignity.
As a kid, I daydreamed about being normal, like kids with glasses still daydream about being astronauts. Daydreams aren't realistic. I only wanted normal because I thought normal was a word that meant "surviving the world.”
― Leah Thomas, Nowhere Near You

“How would you like it if someone told you to cut yourself open and rearrange your body parts? That then you could be normal?”
― Donna Cooner, Skinny

“Write what you know,” the old saying goes. To which I say, “Bullshit.” I don’t know any Goblin Kings, I’ve never lived in eighteenth-century Bavaria, nor do I compose music, all of which my protagonist knows intimately. My adage is this: “Write what you know to be true.” Write your lived experience into existence. Write your truth.”
― Kelly Jensen, [Don't] Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start the Conversation about Mental Health