In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression.

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.

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

...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.

To put it simply, the lizard brain is purely concerned with survival.

We're fragile things, Harb. It doesn't look like it but we are. We're here one minute, and just like that, we're gone. The Peacemakers (The Nemesis Engines)

I used to do drugs, but don't tell anyone or it will ruin my image.

I'm fairly certain. I could be some ghastly hallucination, a figment of my own imagination

Why does the past look so enticing to us? For the same reason why from a distance a meadow with flowers looks like a flower bed.

To maintain the ability to admit and grow from our mistakes rather than let them defeat us represents best the inner strength of a people.

Lys," he whispered. "Do you know what's coming?" "Yes," she whispered. "And you know that I'll be with you until the end?

When we complain, we often project onto others the dissatisfaction of how we're dealing with our own lives.

In any age, our problems are a result of sin, and the solution is faith and obedience.

I knew that I was learning one of the most important lessons of my life: that instead of waiting for the perfect opportunity, I should work toward a realization that every opportunity is perfect.