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“They had engaged in what could not be called treatment or even discussion, but open combat, the two of them a microcosm of the great war raging in the far distance: one side that desired autonomy, ...”
“Don't let the rain drive you to the wrong shelter; the shade can turn out to be your protector and also your destroyer, and sometimes the rain is the perfect protector from the rain.”
“The child psychologist's clinic: where imaginary friends go to die, where dreams go to burn, where creativity goes to drown.”
“Its so easy to believe that others deserve their fate, and the fact was that if nobody bothered to help other people then the worst would always happen She stares out of her window at the busy stre...”
“One either cares what others think about him, or cares what others think he thinks about them. If you want to find someone who doesn't care in the slightest what anyone thinks, try a lunatic asylum.”
“There's not a drug on earth can make life meaningful”
“I think more people would stay active in church, if they didn't get so offended by the actions of members. Sometimes, you have to view places of worship as free mental health clinics, in order to d...”
“For those of you who may be homeschooled: high school is that four-year asylum where they put teenagers because we have no idea what else to do with them.”
“It's an unfortunate word, 'depression', because the illness has nothing to do with feeling sad, sadness is on the human palette. Depression is a whole other beast. It's when your old personality ha...”
“He'll have to do without me, Jamie thought, not looking back. And then clearly, as if he'd been told, he knew Grenville /could/ do without him. There was somewhere else he had to go now, somewhere ...”
“We went back into the Mens Apartments where there were others raving of Ships that may fly and silvered Creatures upon the Moon: Their Stories seem to have neither Head nor Tayl to them, Sir Chris....”
“It goes so fast, he thought, they don't tell you that, how fast it goes...”
“The asylum, and later the national health service, warehoused thousands of patients made mad by the intrusions of a sexual predator. But these institutions had been dominated by the discredited Fre...”
“One of them hasn't got a uniform on or plainclothes either like the rest. He has on the white coat that is my nightmare and my horror. And in the crotch of one arm he is upending two long poles int...”
“Then as we passed down this Passage we were knocked against certain Women of the Town, who gave us Eye-language, since there were many Corners and Closets in Bedlam where they would stop and wait f...”
“Here I want to stress that perception of losing ones mind is based on culturally derived and socially ingrained stereotypes as to the significance of symptoms such as hearing voices, losing tempora...”
“He mouths something. Six words. Six words that seem too impossible to be true. Six words that bleed hope into my soul. Six words. Youre not crazy. I love you.”
“If someone tells you you're crazy enough times, eventually it becomes true. It's that old psychiatrist's joke: insanity's all in your head.”
“Barbee had always wondered about mental institutions. He thought of taking notes for a feature story on this adventure at Glennhaven, as the evening wore on, began to seem remarkable for utter lack...”
“Addy, living one day without you would never be for the best. I want you every minute of every day. Forever. I love you.”
