One out of twenty-three is a sociopath and that's 4 percent of the population, that's a lot of sociopaths. Anorexic's are 3 percent and everybody talks about them.
Nobody planned on the worst, but they got it just the same and had to deal. He knew the saying that Man plans and God laughs, but he’d learned the truth was exactly the opposite—Man plans and God crie...
No, I'm standing here as a placeholder...It means I'm holding your place, until you are ready to stand for yourself. You don't need me to save you. I can help you save yourself, and you can save yours...
Love transcends blood ties, it pays no heed to time or space, much less mere geography.
Justice didn’t compensate for the loss of human life. Justice was an intellectual concept, inevitably trumped by emotion. Justice was the word we used when we couldn’t have what we really wanted, whic...
I’m neither your friend nor your frenemy, unless you have what I want.
If I'm yelling at you, you know I love you. Because I want your chest to keep going up and down, whether you're my daughter or my mother. Or whether I'm your daughter or your mother. It's all the same...
I plan everything. I set everyone in motion, and when the momentcomes, I strike.I always win in the end.They never see me coming.Know why?Because I’m already there.
I know that people get angry and I'm generally a fan of emotions. And to be real, it makes great television. A debate where everybody is yelling at each other is totally fun to watch.Until you realize...
Here are a few of the sources I used, and I heartily recommend them: Simon Baron-Cohen, The Science of Evil; Judith Beck, Cognitive Behavior Therapy; Louis Cozolino, The Making of a Therapist; Kevin D...
Eric had asked administration not to pipe the music into his unit but they said it would cost too much to alter the system. He told them to take it out of his budget but they said no...He knew it was...
Eric approached the octagonal nurses’ station, and a blonde nurselooked up from her computer monitor, smiled, and pointed toexamining room D. Everybody recognized the hospital shrinksfrom the bright...
Bars over the door, but not the window, and the roof looked
Her gratitude didn’t show. Well, here’s what I did yesterday, from noon
She’d believed in forever in her twenties, when Gray had said it, meaning every word, and she’d believed in forever in her thirties, when William had said it, lying through his teeth. But she’d lived...
Normal was the simple wish of everyone with a mental illness. Normal was what everyone else, the worried well, took for granted.
Jake thanked God he had a son to put to bed when he knew somewhere there was a family, right now, waiting for someone who would never come home.
I know that you guys decide who you ‘like’ and who you don’t, then confirmation bias sets in and before you know it, the wrong person has been suspected of murder, even charged.
His fee was $300 an hour, andfor clients who couldn’t afford that, he had a sliding scale that wasnever less than $250— except for crying old ladies facing terminaldiagnoses.
Here is how a mother's love is different: You may fall out of love with a man. But you will never fall out of love with your child. Even after he is gone.