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Secrets for the Mad QUOTES

1 " My rotting brain had lied to me; of course talking would help. Of course my loving, caring friends telling me it would get better would help. They fed ropes down the hold I'd been digging, and even if they couldn't pull me up, they at least reminded me that there was a world beyond this, where I'd been before. "

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2 " Life is a bus ride, with only so many seats. It took me a long time to comprehend that sometimes people had to leave my life, to make room for the better ones, but once I understood that it became easier to let go, and I was surprised at just how quickly new, interesting people somehow found their way onto my bus. "

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3 " When you can't find your purpose in a day, make it to look after yourself. "

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4 " I felt guilty about that for a while until I realized everyone is just a collage of their favorite parts of other people. "

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5 " I hung back, staring at cars driving past and wondering if they were moving fast enough to knock me down. "

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6 " But a back rub is a back rub, and a hug is a hug, and contact with someone you love and who loves you is healing.” - Page 12 "

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7 " you can never undo the brain;
now it knows of the holes it will fall as it's trained. "

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8 " I have the highest of highs and the lowest of lows, crashing in moments of despair and agony and then soaring up to incredible, epiphanic peaks of life where, suddenly, all the pain and hardship makes sense and look just as beautiful as all the good times. "

― , Secrets for the Mad