Adam Hill

“If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather.

Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they’re going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It’s hard to be a friend to someone who’s depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.”
― Stephen Fry

“I realised suddenly that I was thirty-four and not making a very good job of it.”
― Michael Marshall Smith, Everything You Need

“All non-smokers seem to live in the belief that smokers have wandered naively through life, bereft of the knowledge that their habit is extremely bad for them.”
― Michael Marshall Smith, Only Forward

“My father used to claim that inanimate objects hate us and plot our downfall behind our backs. He was probably right.”
― Michael Marshall Smith, The Intruders