“To hell with what anyone thinks about your life, but you should know what you think about it.”

“You only confuse hope with power once in life.”

“In the argument over whether knowledge is power or ignorance is bliss, it seems I've always come down on the side of ignorance. And when that's the side you fall on, you don't realize it until it's...”

“You never hear widows voice the sentiment, but I could stave off companionship indefinitely. Sex, not so much.”

“You don't always get to know what happened, or why things happened a certain way, but it always, always, goes deeper than any one thing.”

“Alcohol was like a fun cousin I visited every once in a while but never planned a trip around.”

“You only confuse hope with power once in life.”

“We all have a book in us. The first step is recognising this. Writing it is a whole new journey.”

“We all have a book in us. The first step is recognising this. Writing it is a whole new journey.”

“Inspirational quotes are only making you more miserable.”

“It was deeply a part of Lee's kindness and understanding that man's right to kill himself is inviolable, but sometimes a friend can make it unnecessary”

“The hardest thing about depression is that it is addictive. It begins to feel uncomfortable not to be depressed. You feel guilty for feeling happy.”

“It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.”

“It didn't matter that there was a war on our doorstep. She had things to do, places to be.”

“Stranger inside me, when you are born, I will give youa closed book and ask you never to read it, never rest, never forgive a man who wants to save you.”