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"And if she could go back and do all those crazy, impossible things, then maybe she could be crazy enough to go forward and save herself, too."

"She is a goddess revelling in the infancy of the world."

"Well, his career has flatlined. So, a kid will make him feel like his life has meaning again. It's the only reason the human race isn't extinct, because people with no purpose breed."
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" Maybe good things were the same as bad things. Sometimes you just had to let them happen."

"Alex didn't really know what she missed, only that she was homesick for something, maybe someone, she'd never been."

"We all began somewhere, Alex. So many of these children have had too much handed to them. They've forgotten how to reach. You are hungry and I respect hunger."

"I will take my fugue state of delirious panic and compost it into a fertile bed of creativity- for aren't all the best novels borne from some madness, which is borne from truth?"

"What more can we want as writers than such immortality? Don't ghosts just want to be remembered?"

"I don't create so much as I collect," explained the poet. "The world is already so rich. All I do is distill the messiness of human life into a concentrated reading experience."

"[I] Saw myself as the inevitable solution to the equation of my existence. Finally understood that free will did not exist, because I could not choose my desires, only whether to pursue them."

"It is a supremely cruel thing to have your mind conjure a desire which it is functionally unable to realize.
No one teaches you how to handle the death of a dream."

"[...] I had extraordinary dreams and an ordinary mind."
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"Logan, when I look at you, I see a man who's still very, very hard on himself."
Something broke loose at the core of me. She was touching a wound that would never heal, which I'd wrapped in two decades' worth of scar tissue.
"How could I not be?" I asked, my voice now barely a whisper.

" The problem is we've become so risk averse, we'd rather overmedicate than take any chances. We need to be brave enough to sit with the madness, to hold it- instead of trying to lock it up."

"Tears collected in my eyes as I walked up the hill. I wasn't crying for my mother-or myself- or even that poor homeless man. I was crying for all of us. There's so much pain everywhere, and we just close our eyes to it. The truth is we're all scared. We're terrified of each other. I'm terrified of myself-and of my mother in me."

" It's odd how quickly one adapts to the strange new world of a psychiatric unit. You become increasingly comfortable with madness- and not just the madness of others, but your own. We're all crazy, I believe, just in different ways."

"Because life wasn't ideal. It turned and bent. It spun you out for a minute and swung you right back in the next."

" [...] is the miracle of our relationship the result of a precise combination of tragedies that broke us both so completely that when we collided, we became something entirely new?"