Like they say, you never know a person till you’ve done time with them.

I am the daughter of a psychologist. I know that the thing ostensibly being studied is rarely the thing being studied. (We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, p. 99)

You can’t imagine the white-hot fury someone who can’t sleep has toward the beautiful dreamer beside him.

I didn't want a world in which I had to choose between blind human babies and tortured monkey ones. To be frank, that's the sort of choice I expect science to protect me from, not give me.

who knows you better than your own brother?

Maybe anosognosia, the inability to see your own disability, is the human condition and I'm the only one who doesn't suffer from it.

We call them feelings because we feel them.

We used to believe that memories were best retrieved in the same place that they were first laid down. Like everything else we think we know, that's not so clear anymore.

An "attack on SeaWorld" might mean a bomb, or it might mean graffiti and glitter and a cream pie in the face. The government doesn't always seem to distinguish between the two.

I admired her choices though I wouldn't have made them.

Emotion and instinct were the basis of all our decisions, our actions, everything we valued, the way we saw the world. Reason and rationality were a thin coat of paint on a ragged surface.

People come and go, some stay for a while some leave soon. But when they go they take away the memories, promises, dreams and a part of my life.

She was exactly right and wrong in the perfect sort of way. This kiss would be the first of many, she was the type of girl I would desperately fight for to stay.

If all of us make peace as a purpose of our life, how could there be war?

Like water poured from one vessel to another, metta flows freely, taking the shape of each situation without changing its essence.

Superstition is the belief in the causal nexus.

Depression is a choice.

My favorite part is the preparation because you read on the page, you get this character.

It is always difficult to get across to people who are not professional writers that a talent to write does not mean a talent to write anything at all.

Relationships make me happy.

The natural state of a human being is dignity.