“And I decided it really was true after all. You only really need two people to believe in the same thing, to feel as though you just might belong.”

“Distract yourself, that's what Margaret always told him. When you start getting anxious, give your mind something else to think about. He had become an expert at distracting himself. He had distrac...”

“I thought I would like a job where inquiring about everyone else's private business was considered perfectly routine.”

“Something wonderful begins to happen with the simple realization that life, like an automobile, is driven from the inside out, not the other way around. As you focus more on becoming more peaceful ...”

“Noble failure atones for the impossibility of resisting progress successfully.”

“Love, like madness, can only fill the models that society makes available.”

“PTSD in its rawest form is a death sentence which causes many veterans and others to execute themselves in hope to be free.”

“That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.”