“At a certain point, unabashed optimism becomes delusional insanity.”

“Please remember that you can talk to me about anything. I know its hard to talk to your old mom about things, but Ill always help you in whatever way I can. Im serious. You have to remember that I ...”

“I could feel the tears streaming down my facein some kind of frenzied competition with the rain. At first, I tried to brush the tears away, but I finally let them take their course, unabated.”

“I think weve all lost our minds a bit. It sounded like she was fighting back tears.”

“Then again, I had become a disappointment. Its easier to find fault with a disappointment.”

“I was good at fabricating the truth when necessary to protect someone, even myself.”

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you sa...”

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there i...”

“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.”