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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d22e147 | Rachel lay in bed, staring at a ceiling she couldn't see in the darkness. Her brother, Jonathan, was a few feet away; his breathing, regular and deep. | Keith Nixon | ||
| 52e8bb9 | I for many years after my initial diagnosis was reluctant to take my medications as prescribed. Why was I so unwilling? Why did it take having to go through more episodes of mania, followed by long suicidal depressions, before I would take lithium in a medically sensible way? Some of my reluctance, no doubt, stemmed from a fundamental denial that what I had was a real disease. This is a common reaction that follows, rather counter-intuitive.. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 02ad167 | high altitude coupled with rigorous exercise can raise lithium levels. I became completely disoriented and totally incapable of navigating my way down the mountain. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 1bc25a1 | Reading, which had been at the heart of my intellectual and emotional existence, | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 18044e6 | because the California commitment code is designed more for the well-being of lawyers than of patients, it would have been relatively easy for me to talk my way out of an involuntary commitment. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 7b16411 | Somehow, like so many people who get depressed, we felt our depressions were more complicated and existentially based than they actually were. Antidepressants might be indicated for psychiatric patients, for those of weaker stock, but not for us. It was a costly attitude; our upbringing and pride held us hostage. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 7f3b71c | The endless questioning finally ended. My psychiatrist looked at me, there was no uncertainty in his voice. "Manic-depressive illness." I admired his bluntness. I wished him locusts on his lands and a pox upon his house. Silent, unbelievable rage. I smiled pleasantly. He smiled back. The war had just begun." | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 5888ffe | The humor, however, was a bit more in the recounting than in the actual living through it. Unfortunately, this resistance to taking lithium is played out in the lives of tens of thousands of patients every year. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 610cd66 | No amount of love can cure madness or unblacken one's dark moods. Love can help, it can make the pain more tolerable, but, always, one is beholden to medication that may or may not always work and may or may not be bearable. Madness, on the other hand, most certainly can, and often does, kill love through its mistrustfulness, unrelenting pessimism, discontents, erratic behavior, and, especially, through its savage moods. The | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| ada7abd | Let me tell you the tale of a poet who hanged himself with promises. . . . | C.S. Friedman | ||
| 1161a03 | Let every government see to it that each child is implanted with the tools it needs to communicate, calculate, and process data. Let each government make sure that rich and poor alike, dirtborn and outworlder, Terran and Variant, all have equal access to the outernet and its resources. Let them do that, and we will see something the galaxy has never seen before: a time of true equality, unequaled prosperity, and the kind of conceptual innov.. | C.S. Friedman | ||
| b9fa0a8 | The more I think about it, the more it frightens me." "So why are you getting involved?" He shut his eyes. "So I can look at myself in the mirror again. And know that I did my best." | C.S. Friedman | ||
| 36c875a | Sometimes the decision is placed in your hands and you just have to go with it, right or wrong, according to what you think is best. | C.S. Friedman | ||
| 2ce2ac0 | I was aesthetically impressed but failed to understand the importance of it. Unfortunately, Braxana do not express ignorance; therefore I couldn't ask, "What is it?" as directly as I would have liked. After a moment I looked up at him, the elevation of one eyebrow indicating that I was intrigued enough to hear what he had come to say." | C.S. Friedman | ||
| e19c3cd | What is true genius, if not the perfect balance of inspiration and perseverence? CHEULGU KIM Ancient Truths for a New Age | C.S. Friedman | ||
| e36ebe8 | To Kaimera Lord Zatar, Zarvati, son of Vinir and K'siva From the Elders of the Holding The Elders respectfully remind you that it is required of each purebred Braxana male that he sire four registered purebred children during his lifetime. While we recognize that you are still young in age, your involvement in the War forces us to consider the possibility that you may not enjoy the full life expectancy of the Braxana. Therefore we urge yo.. | C.S. Friedman | ||
| dc97e46 | When I truly accept something, I am no longer invested in making it different. I may still share my opinion. I may even indicate that I would prefer things to be otherwise, but I don't become invested in trying to make it so. There's more of a lightness. I recognize that the world, including my partner, does not exist for my pleasure and convenience. My partner is not me. The more we can embrace the whole package, the more loving we can be... | Gregg Krech | ||
| 3666938 | She crept across the room, avoiding the squeaky floorboard. She almost made it. The door was half open when her father said, | Keith Nixon | ||
| dec1e91 | Connecting to the outernet was less of a shock this time, as the monitor gave him a sense of distance from it, but it was still annoying. How did these people live with such a system, stalked by advertisements and "free" offers and icons that would take you to another site, unasked-for, the moment you gave them your attention? It was like wending your way through an obstacle course. Perhaps after a while you just learned to tune it all out... | communication cyberpunk internet marketing | C.S. Friedman | |
| a54f090 | Amazing, is it not, that in the face of death we hunger for distraction, and are wont to focus on other things, trivial things, as a means of not acknowledging our danger.... | C.S. Friedman | ||
| 55d9e7d | Anzha was trapped in someone else's dream. Such a thing didn't happen often, but it happened. Intensity of emotion meant intensity of contact; in the close confines of the Institute, where hundreds of psychics lived, worked, and trained together, it was to be expected that occasionally two dreamers would come insync (as the Institute termed it) and share the same sleep-bound fantasies. The | C.S. Friedman | ||
| f57f092 | And love?" she asked him. "What is love?" He smiled faintly. "Data of the heart." -- | C.S. Friedman | ||
| a51e956 | We are such cold creatures, all of us. Power robs us of our humanity. It's an ancient formula, hard-wired into our brain cells, and any attempt to circumvent it is an exercise in futility. | C.S. Friedman | ||
| 7c02622 | Those who support the concept of a direct interface network don't take into account the price they would have to pay for it, in privacy and safety and a thousand other areas of concern. Do you really want a machine to know where you are every minute of the day? Do you really trust the people who design these things, and program them, enough to let their work directly into your head? Don't you realize that every time you let this creature co.. | C.S. Friedman | ||
| 00c6766 | At any given time there were more than a billion transmissions buzzing through that darkness, chronicling everything from a grandchild's first words to the kind of secrets that could unseat governments. Jewels in the darkness. | C.S. Friedman | ||
| c10fd73 | The iru only seemed more alien than most to him because he was nantana, and all the signals of tone and movement which he relied upon for social intercourse were absent in such a man. Or distorted. Or exaggerated. You couldn't even try to read such a man beyond the surface, you just took his words at face value and tried not to look any deeper. | C.S. Friedman | ||
| 726bc16 | The manner in which a man lies can sometimes reveal more of his nature than the truth. C. J. AMBERLEIGH, The Art of Inquisition | C.S. Friedman | ||
| 2abc517 | Was there ever a generation that didn't enjoy shocking its elders in public? Was there ever a world where adults didn't shake their heads in frustration, annoyed by the antics of the young, but unable to stop them? | C.S. Friedman | ||
| 02abf72 | Advertising: the ultimate predator. He longed for the simplicity of the Gueran network, which simply did what it was supposed to and no more. When had these people lost touch with the fact that the purpose of a network was to facilitate communication, not impede it? | C.S. Friedman | ||
| b337f4b | All data leaves a trail. The search for data leaves a trail. The erasure of data leaves a trail. The absence of data, under the right circumstances, can leave the clearest trail of all. DR. KIO MASADA; "The Enemy Among Us" | C.S. Friedman | ||
| da7815c | Each new technology will bring with it new forms of crime, demanding innovative security. That is the dynamic which drives our modern progress: not dreams, not ideals, but the simple desire on the part of criminals to take what is not theirs by law, and the determination of others to keep them from doing so. DR. AMY LAN, Brave New Battles | C.S. Friedman | ||
| 7155e62 | Why remember? Because remembering honors. Remembering heals. Remembering forgives. Remembering creates appreciation and gratitude -- two of the most wondrous salves for your sorrows. | Linda Anderson | ||
| 6d5e628 | What significant details do you remember about how you met your special animal? Why do you think this animal came into your life at the time he or she did? | Linda Anderson | ||
| 120b4f0 | You came into my life in a way that unmistakably told me to bring you home. But I think we chose each other. This was one of the best decisions I ever made. | Linda Anderson | ||
| 84e1f84 | It's like that moment when, often early in the morning, perhaps in a strange house, you pass before a mirror you hadn't known would be there. You see a glimpse of someone reflected in that mirror, and a moment passes before you recognize that that person is yourself. Literature exists in moments like that. | Linda Anderson | ||
| c5ad0b8 | Her father sighed. Rachel knew then that he'd fold. He'd been easy on her and Jonathan since they'd come back home. After her mother disappeared, leaving Rachel and Jonathan to fend for themselves. "Come here," said" | Keith Nixon | ||
| 297e52c | The derision was obvious in his voice, it cut through her. Tears in her eyes, she turned and ran out the door, pulling it closed behind her, shoes still in her hands. | Keith Nixon | ||
| c1bdb2d | grew a whole bunch of blisters of their own. I wondered what you called a whole bunch of blisters. I was sorry about lots of things. Most of all I was sorry that I hadn't noticed what had been happening to Ross, that I hadn't known. But that was a lie. Of course we'd known. We caused some of it. But ignored it--buried our heads in the sand. I wished so hard that he'd talked to me. Why hadn't he talked to me? I could have helped--surely I co.. | Keith Gray | ||
| 128a688 | Remember that it is I who have raised you from nothing, and it is I who at any time can lower you to where you were. | Carolyn Meyer | ||
| 56f5c27 | Over it I shall wear my crimson velvet mande trimmed in | Carolyn Meyer | ||
| 6701b90 | fine enough, but getting there is no pleasure." She stood with her hands" | Carolyn Meyer | ||
| f49f8ad | My own words continued to echo in my head: . I felt as though I had somehow crossed a vast ocean, never to return. | never-marry ocean | Carolyn Meyer | |
| d33e198 | Meyer summarizes his code of honor as "(1) Show up. (2) Work hard. (3) Be kind. (4) Take the high road." As he contributed in ways that revealed his skills without spawning jealousy, colleagues began to admire and trust his comedic genius. "People started to see him as somebody who wasn't just motivated personally," Tim Long explains. "You don't think of him as a competitor. He's someone you can think of on a higher plane, and can trust cre.. | Adam M. Grant | ||
| 4350671 | Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep." Scott Adams" | Adam M. Grant |