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21 " It may have sounded like no to a glass of wine, but in truth it was no to a great many things. And yes to a great many more. "
― , Manic: A Memoir
22 " True beauty, I realized, is not the absence of ugliness, but the acceptance of it. "
23 " We were the Gatsby couple, or so our friends called us. We made a martini look good. It was the eighties, and he was as essential to me as shoulder pads. "
24 " there is no line, there never was a line, and any line that might have been disappears altogether, along with all of my discretion and judgment. "
25 " It’s a well-known fact that God makes green-eyed men for one purpose only: to remind me that love is a chemical imbalance, too. That perilous highs and desperate lows and extravagant flurries of mood are not always symptoms of a broken mind, but signs of a beating heart. If "
26 " The memory of sustenance is a terrible thing. Far worse, I think, than actual starving. Starving just kills you. Longing can gnaw away at you forever. But "
27 " How could I ever hope to tell a normal person about the terrors of being happy? Unless there was a damned good reason for it, something objective and verifiable like a winning bingo card or a negative biopsy, happiness wasn’t a safe harbor for me. It was just another checkpoint on the road to mania. "
28 " I realized then why I was avoiding all the other patients. They were all potential mirrors. What I really feared wasn’t the insanity of strangers. What I feared the most was my own disease. I was terrified I would catch a glimpse of myself in passing. "