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Weetzie was wearing her feathered headdress and her moccasins and a pink fringed mini dress. “Thanks. I made it,” she said, snapping her strawberry bubble gum. “I’m into Indians,” she said. “They were here first and we treated them like
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“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.”
― Nowhere Near You
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.”
― 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?”
― Skinny
― 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.”
― [Don't] Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start the Conversation about Mental Health
― [Don't] Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start the Conversation about Mental Health
“It’s strange to realize that, despite having an innate ability for it, I am actually terrible at being crazy. How can one be so bad at something one is meant to be? Bipolar disorder is, after all, some combination of genes and their expression. Maybe she’s born with it. Maybe it’s dopamine.”
― [Don't] Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start the Conversation about Mental Health
― [Don't] Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start the Conversation about Mental Health
“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.”
― [Don't] Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start the Conversation about Mental Health
― [Don't] Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start the Conversation about Mental Health
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