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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f44d79f | Somewhere, beneath that darkness, I had seen both strength and honor. But his words of despair mocked my efforts at healing. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| 8d7fab8 | Perhaps this was what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow and aching. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| 3261091 | When the Fair Folk gave you an instruction, you followed it, whether it suited you or not. That was just the way it was. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| 40bddde | What do you think is the best kind of story, Sibeal?" Gull's deep voice was like a soft cloak, comforting and warm. "The true kind, or a tale of marvels and magic?" "A wonder tale can be truer than true," I said. I had learned, during my time in the nemetons, that the deepest kind of truth can be found in the strangest and wildest of stories. One may not meet a fire-breathing dragon on the way to the well. One may not encounter an army of t.. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| f8eea75 | The most reasonable of requests felt burdensome if a person had no choice in the matter. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| 5529a04 | At some point, we'll both have to risk telling the truth. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| 741842e | This book's conundrum is that most of the families described here have ended up grateful for experiences they would have done anything to avoid. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| cf7dfc6 | unlike Edith Piaf, I regret everything just because it is finished, | Andrew Solomon | ||
| 484e398 | The unexamined life is unavailable to the depressed. That is, perhaps, the greatest revelation I have had: not that depression is compelling but that the people who suffer from it may become compelling because of it. I hope that this basic fact will offer sustenance to those who suffer and will inspire patience and love in those who witness that suffering. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| 52fb071 | Travel is a set of corrective lenses that helps focus the planet's blurred reality. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| 73e113d | Oppression sometimes benefits its victims more than its perpetrators. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| 6efe88e | I understood that going where I would actually be foreign might distract people from the more intimate nature of my defining otherness. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| 2c2f2c5 | If some glorious angel descended into my living room and offered to exchange my children for other, better children-brighter, kinder, funnier, more loving, more disciplined, more accomplished-I would clutch the ones I have and, like most parents, pray away the atrocious specter. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| a6f2537 | The cumulative results of the brain's chemical effects are not well understood. In the 1989 edition of the standard Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, for example, one finds this helpful formula: a depression score is equivalent to the level of 3-methoxy-4-hydroxyphenylglycol (a compound found in the urine of all people and not apparently affected by depression); minus the level of 3-methoxy-4-hydroxymandelic acid; plus the level of nore.. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| bf4bf64 | You cannot understand the otherness of places you have not encountered. If all young adults were required to spend two weeks in a foreign country, two-thirds of the world's diplomatic problems could be solved. It wouldn't matter what country they visited or what they did during their stays. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| 84748d7 | Hatred does not obliterate love. Indeed, the two are in constant fellowship. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| 50cbb4f | Without self-discovery," Hahn wrote, extending an idea of Nietzsche's, "a person may still have self-confidence, but it is a self-confidence built on ignorance and it melts in the face of heavy burdens." | Andrew Solomon | ||
| 7caa19e | To wage war on depression is to fight against oneself, and it is important to know that in advance of the battles. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| 4e3e813 | Nirvana occurs when you not only look forward to rapture, but also gaze back into the times of anguish and find in them the seeds of your joy. You may not have felt that happiness at the time, but in retrospect it is incontrovertible. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| 312dbe8 | In typical circumstances, to have children who won't care for you in your dotage is to be King Lear. Disability changes the reciprocity equation. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| b26118a | Depression claims more years than war, cancer, and AIDS put together. Other illnesses, from alcoholism to heart disease, mask depression when it causes them; if one takes that into consideration, depression may be the biggest killer on earth. Treatments | Andrew Solomon | ||
| e10fa1f | The passion for such children contains no ego motive of anticipated reciprocity; one is choosing against, in the poet Richard Wilbur's phrase, 'loving things for reasons'. You find beauty and hope in the existence, rather than the achievements, of such a child. Most parenthood entails some struggle to change, educate and improve one's children; people with multiple severe disabilities may not become anything else, and there is a compelling .. | parenting | Andrew Solomon | |
| a220e4b | In depression, all that is happening in the present is the anticipation of pain in the future, and the present qua present no longer exists at all. Depression is a condition that is almost unimaginable to anyone who has not known it. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| 1e0183a | People around depressives expect them to get themselves together: our society has little room in it for moping. Spouses, parents, children, and friends are all subject to being brought down themselves, and they do not want to be close to measureless pain. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| 8b8aadf | Having anticipated the onward march of our selfish genes, many of us are unprepared for children who present unfamiliar needs. Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger, and the more alien the stranger, the stronger the whiff of negativity. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| 81e035d | Disability scholars Andrienne Asch and Erik Parens, in their seminal discussion of the problem, wrote,'Pre-natal diagnosis reinforces the medical model that disability itself, not societal discrimination against people with disabilities, is the problem to be solved. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| ec517a3 | If real experience has triggered your descent into depression, you have a human yen to understand it even when you have ceased to experience it; the limited of experience that is achieved with chemical pills is not tantamount to a cure. | understanding-yourself | Andrew Solomon | |
| 5ca1b2a | It is the sincere horror of it that gets others motivated, so say Watson and Andrews; the dysfunction caused by the onset of depression may serve a useful function in that it is "a device for the elicitation of altruism." | Andrew Solomon | ||
| 25b1162 | Biology is not destiny. There are ways to lead a good life with depression. Indeed, people who learn from their depression can develop a particular moral profundity from the experience, | Andrew Solomon | ||
| b37ef22 | Mental illness is real illness | Andrew Solomon | ||
| 6dfa8e2 | How then do we tell the difference between the gift of sadness and the trauma of circumstantial depression? In his acclaimed book, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, Andrew Solomon answers: "Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance" while "depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance."11" -- | Zack Eswine | ||
| e1bf15c | Rebuilding of the self in and after depression requires love, insight, work, and, most of all, time. Diagnosis | Andrew Solomon | ||
| c6a2ead | Actually travel is the opposite of depression. Depression is a curling inward, and travel is an opening outward. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| 40671f4 | You can exorcise the demons of schizophrenics who perceive that there's something foreign inside them. But it's much harder with depressed people because we believe we are seeing the truth. But the truth lies. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| 492288f | So many people have asked me what to do for depressed friends and relatives, and my answer is actually simple: blunt their isolation. Do it with cups of tea or with long talks or by sitting in a room nearby and staying silent or in whatever way suits the circumstances, but do that. And do it willingly. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| bce2808 | Love you. A stranger accidentally text messaged me the other day. I didn't delete it. I look at it before I go to bed at night and sometimes during the day. I know it wasn't meant for me... but it's nice to pretend it was. | Frank Warren | ||
| 16c32d0 | So Japan is allied with Germany and they're like "Sweet the rest of the world already hates us let's take their land!" So they start invading China and Malaysia and the Philippines and just whatever else but then they're like "Hmm what if America tries to stop us? Ooh! Let's surprise attack Hawaii!" So that's exactly what they do. The attack is very successful but only in a strictly technical sense. To put it in perspective, let's try a met.. | Cory O'Brien | ||
| 5bd6f62 | Henry: How does it feel? How does it feel? Sometimes it feels as though your attention has wandered for just an instant. Then, with a start, you realize that the book you were holding, the red plaid cotton shirt with white buttons, the favorite black jeans and the maroon socks with an almost-hole in one heel, the living room, the about-to-whistle tea kettle in the kitchen: all of these have vanished. You are standing, naked as a jaybird, up.. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 20df687 | Now you're just being stubborn, and I am not going to sit here and tell you what you already know, when you know you know it, and I know you know it, and you know that I know you know it.: | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| 9fcf297 | disaster, | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| 56d6fda | Little Robin had been brought by Lord Orthallen--although he had the feeling that his lord did not realize it. The boy was a part of his household, though Orthallen seemed to have long since forgotten the fact; and when the order came to pack up the household and move to the Border, Robin found himself in the tail of the baggage train, with no small bewilderment. He'd been at a loss in the encampment, wandering about until someone had seen .. | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| 17c5432 | Elspeth had the joyous task of breaking the news to the rest of the Council. There was no such accord among the political leaders of Valdemar as there was among her military leaders. Lord Gartheser was speechless with outrage and shock; Bard Hyron was dazed. Lady Kester and Lady Cathan, still seething over Orthallen's accusations of complicity with the slavers, were surprised, but not altogether unhappy. Father Aldon had closeted himself in.. | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| bef619e | Healer Myrim made no attempt to conceal the fact that Orthallen's treachery had not surprised her. Nor did she conceal that his demise gave her a certain grim satisfaction. But then, she might well be forgiven such uncharitable thoughts; she was one of the four Healers who were tending Talia's wounds. | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| a3abd55 | but one thing the best leaders usually share in common, they didn't want the damn job in the first place." Then" | Mercedes Lackey |