“Sometimes I think people take reality for granted.”

“I am real. Thishe put his other hand over the first-is real. You see me interacting with other people all day long, dont you? I talk to people; I affect things in the world. I cause things to happe...”

“If nothings real, then what does it matter? he said. You live here. Doesnt that make it real enough?”

“Intelligence is not measured by how much you know, but by how much you have the capacity to learn.”

“Did you meet your soul mate? That always happens on the first day of school, right?''Oh God, Charlie, she's letting you read again! You went straight to the paranormal section, didn't you?”

“I was the big sister. I was supposed to set and example and lead the way so people would say, 'Hey, you're Alex's sister, aren't you? You two look exactly alike!' instead of 'Hey, you're Alex's sis...”

“Nobody can see pain. They have no frame of reference for pain that's happening to someone else. They can only see inactivity - which they interpret as laziness.”

“It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart because many pleasures of human experience have been withheld from meif much has been denied me, much,...”

“God's time is slow, patient, and kind and welcomes friendship; it is a way of being in the fullness of time that is not determined by productivity, success, or linear movements toward personal goal...”

“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.”

“We children of schizophrenics are the great secret keepers, the ones who don't want you to think that anything is wrong.”

“There are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that.”

“Schizophrenia beats dining alone.”