Why I am opposed to antidepressants. Because I think depression has something to tell me. Because often depression is an appropriate reaction.Because I am terrified of changing the functioning of my b...
When I was supposed to be awake, I was asleep. When I was supposed to sleep, I was silent. When a pleasure offered itself to me, I avoided it.
What does the sign say? ‘If you lived here, you’d be home now.’ She clenched her hands with excitement. See, every day people will drive past and read that sign and think, ‘Yeah, if I lived here I’d...
We say that Columbus discovered America and Newton discovered gravity, as though America and gravity weren't there until Columbus and Newton got wind of them. This was the way I felt about the tunnels...
Then he heard the hum. Vibrating in consonance with one of the tones of the ocean's churning, it slid in and out of perceptibility in the way that the landscape disappeared in the mist. But by stillin...
Stavolta lessi il titolo del quadro: Ragazza interrotta mentre suona.Interrotta mentre suona: com’era stata la mia vita, interrotta nella musica dei miei diciassette anni, com’era stata la sua vita, s...
Nothing, I said. It's quiet. It's like I don't know. It's like falling off a cliff. I laughed. I guess my life will just stop when I get married.It didn't. It wasn't quiet either. And in the end, I lo...
Maybe, there's a moment growing up when something peels back... Maybe, maybe, we look for secrets because we can't believe our mind.
But something about the static truth of numbers hurt my brain. Numbers felt sharp. Words felt elastic and springy. Language had an unpredictable, quicksilver quality, saying one thing but meaning some...
Asa’s smell (the fragrance of a beautiful man) is what I miss the most.[…] Like a virus his smell entered me and changed my cells,slowly, over years, until they craved only that smell, which was their...
You can see why doubting one’s own craziness isconsidered a good sign: It’s a sort of flailing response bythe second interpreter. What’s happening? the secondinterpreter is saying. He tells me it’s a...
When you’re sad you need to hear your sorrow structured into sound.
We say that Columbus discovered America and Newton discovered gravity as though America and gravity weren't there until Columbus and Newton got wind of them.
We might get out sometime, but she was locked up forever in that body.
Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act?
Twenty-five chocolate chip cookies would be the perfect dinner.
Thus, our keepers. As for finders—well, we had to be our own finders.
This behavior may...counteract feelings of'numbness'and depersonalization that aries duriing periods of extreme stress.-153 Girl,Interrupted
The debate was wearing me out. Once you've posed that question, it won't go away. I think manypeople kill themselves simply to stop the debate about whether they will or they won't.Anything I thought...
Something had been peeled back, a covering or shell that works to protect us. I couldn’t decide whether the covering was something on me or something attached to every thing in the world. It didn’t ma...