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“I had given up, and yet God came to me in winter and in ice, in the hard world and in the night.” P. 254

“New to life, I could not resign myself to silence, patience, absence.” P. 154

“The more darkness and pain we experience in this life, the more resplendence and relief in the next. As a character says in C.S. Lewis’s The Great Divorce, reflecting biblical teaching: ‘That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporal suffering, ‘No future bliss can make up for it,’ not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory.’”

“Adelaide would bookmark this memory for years to come. Being woken up by your best friend was something reserved for grade school sleepovers, naps on vacation, mornings that followed nights of drinking and exhaustion and daze. “Wake up, throw some clothes on” were not words to which Adelaide often woke up. They were special. This was special.”

“Mental illness was a shape-shifter. It could appear in different forms, with different presentations, and still bear the same name…It was almost comforting to have a name for this, for whatever it was going on inside her mind. It felt like naming the beast, so to speak, was the first step in learning to placate it.”