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Depression was a very active state really. Even if you appeared to an observer to be immobilized, your mind was in a frenzy of paralysis. You were unable to function, but were actively despising yourself for it.
Whatever I experienced in the world that I didn't understand I'd invent a story and workout my understanding of something through the story.
I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement isn't all that important to me.
No pain was permanent, and no loss was real. That even though people treated each other abominably, even though they left, even though you let them go, even though you never laid eyes on them again, this fugue that linked you continued, whether you liked it or not.
One didn't issue instructions to comets. Grown children did what they had to do, and parents could only grit their teeth and watch and pray for them to get through it.
If you kept moving, you never had to mourn what you were leaving behind.
What a surprise to find you could shift the contents of your head like rearranging furniture in a room.
Dying was apparently a weaning process; all the attachments to familiar people and objects have to be undone.
I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.
Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.
That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.
If this was adulthood, the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that now she could eat dessert without eating her vegetables.
The only obvious advantage to being an adult is that you can eat your dessert without haying sampled the vegetables.
The human organism has only so much energy at its disposal. If you divert a great deal of it into any one channel, you can expect the others to collapse or atrophy. If you squander your vital energies on your emotional life, as you have been doing, plan to be physically and mentally bankrupt, as it were.
A snake will always be a snake, even if you put a chain around its neck and try to make it walk upright.
The strength you've insisted on assigning to others is actually within yourself.
Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.
The requirements of romantic love are difficult to satisfy in the back seat of a Dodge Dart.
