Depression is about as close as you get to somewhere between dead and alive, and it's the worst.

That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.

I start to get the feeling that something is really wrong.

Everything's plastic, we're all going to die sooner or later, so what does it matter.

I admire Bruce Springsteen because he's a heroic person who has lots of integrity and has this incredible body of work that is so vital.

...occasionally I wished I could walk through a picture window and have the sharp, broken shards slash me to ribbons so I would finally look like I felt.

homesickness is just a state of mind for me. i'm always missing someone or someplace or something, i'm always trying to get back to some imaginary somewhere. my life has been one long longing.

Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can't stop it.

The voices in my head, which I used to think were just passing through, seem to have taken up residence.

In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power.

It's like Samson and Delilah: watch your back, because trouble could be the person you're sleeping with.

Because it is so hard, some people wait until they are in their thirties, forties, fifties, or even older before breaking their silence.

Smartphones can relay patients' data to hospital computers in a continuous stream. Doctors can alter treatment regimens remotely, instead of making patients come in for a visit.

Whatever you focus upon, increases.

Evil is not intrinsic. It's fashioned.

Christianity = me moving out, God moving in.

Can't repeat the past?" he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!" He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand.

On our earth we can only love withsuffering and through suffering.

But it was another girl, young and new to the city, fiddling with her keys.

A positive mind finds a way it can be done; a negative mind looks for all the ways it can't be done.

There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name.