“ Will there never be an end that also has a beginning? Will there never be continuity bridging the awful void between now and some other time, a time in the future, a time in the past? Flora Rheta Schreiber
“ After writing the letter Sybil lost almost two days. "Coming to," she stumbled across what she had written just before she had dissociated and wrote to Dr. Wilbur as follows: It's just so hard to have… Flora Rheta Schreiber
“ It is so much more threatening to have something out of hand than to believe that at any moment I can stop (I started to say "This foolishness") any time I need to. Flora Rheta Schreiber
“ It all made sense — terrible sense. The panic she had experienced in the warehouse district because of not knowing what had happened had been superseded at the newsstand by the even greater panic of p… Flora Rheta Schreiber
“ The neurologist had dismissed her case after a single visit, handing out an easy nostrum by telling her father that if she continued to write poetry, she would be all right. Flora Rheta Schreiber
“ Isolated, she managed somehow to feel free—albeit with a freedom that made her want to smash a hole in the very center of the universe. Flora Rheta Schreiber
“ Theirs was the eternal youth of an alternating self, a youth with the constant although unfulfilled promise of growing up Flora Rheta Schreiber
“ She'd abandoned the animal she loved as she herself had been abandoned repeatedly in the past by people who had claimed to love her. Flora Rheta Schreiber
“ You're never ready for what you have to do. You just do it. That makes you ready. Flora Rheta Schreiber
