Marya Hornbacher quote: "And then the horror sets in. All that time I wasn’t crazy; I was, in fact, crazy. It’s hopeless. I’m hopeless. Bipolar disorder. Manic depression. I’m sick. It’s true. It isn’t going to go away. All my life, I’ve thought that if I just worked hard enough, it would. I’ve always thought that if I just pulled myself together, I’d be a good person, a calm person, a person like everyone"

I’m sick. It’s true. It isn’t going to go away. All my life, I’ve thought that if I just wor...
MARYA HORNBACHER

If I were another person, I go on, I wouldn’t want to deal with me, I don’t want to deal with me...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me...
COCO CHANEL

If there’s any redeeming quality that I can find in running away from something, it’s that I’m...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH

It’s not that I’ve been invited to the hole I’m standing in. It’s that I accepted the invita...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH

I’m not bipolar, I’ve just had a bipolar life foisted upon me.
DANIEL O'MALLEY

I’m trying to be an adult. I’m trying to be responsible. I’m trying not to call home crying. B...
JAKE VANDER-ARK

I just cash in on the fact that I’m good looking, and I’ve got a nice figure and girls like me.
SID VICIOUS

Pamela, I’m in love with you. Yeah, it’s that bad. You’re so beautiful to me. Shut up! Lemme t...
LOUIS C.K.

I’ve seen it happen over and over again: a black person gets killed just for being black, and all ...
ANGIE THOMAS

I used to think I was the strangest person in the world
but then I thought, there are so many p...
REBECCA KATHERINE MARTIN

For so many years, I couldn’t understand why every time I thought that someone finally loved me, l...
JENNIFER ELISABETH

If I told you I’ve worked hard to get where I’m at, I’d be lying, because I have no idea where...
JAROD KINTZ

If I’d been asked to make a list of what I could do without, I’d never have managed it. But by p...
J.P. DELANEY

It’s almost like the better I do, the more my feeling of inadequacy actually increases, because I�...
EMMA WATSON

The truth is, part of me is every age. I’m a three-year-old, I’m a five-year-old, I’m a thirty...
MITCH ALBOM

Grey is… such a mean word. I don’t remember a time when I thought grey was anything but… pain....
DEE JUUSAN

It’s always me, isn’t it? I’m not really a very nice person, but for some reason it’s always...
JEFF LINDSAY

I do feel that I’ve managed to make something I could maybe call my world…over time…little by ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI

Life isn’t about deserving.” I closed my eyes and sighed. “Aren’t you the one always spoutin...
RACHEL VAN DYKEN

It’s all right,’ he insisted, ‘I’m perfectly well. Thought I heard, well, a noise
that...
DOUGLAS ADAMS

There’s a pause so yawning I can’t help but think about what it would be like to lean in and kis...
LEANNE HALL

Just because I’ve been gone from this country for most of my life doesn’t mean I understand it a...
FIONA ZEDDE

It makes me wonder how I’d be treated if I were like everyone else. Maybe I’m a pretty rotten pe...
JODI PICOULT

I’ve fallen for her…So hard. I’ve hit the ground. Gone right through it. Never in my life have...
TAHEREH MAFI

Once I thought that if I just had enough in the bank, if I had enough fame, that it would be all rig...
CHRIS FARLEY

I don’t know what else I can tell you, other than that I can imagine spending the rest of my life ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

If I’m surprised at where I’m at, it’s probably because I’m not listening to the reality tha...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH

Last night I was seriously considering whether I was a bisexual or not but I don’t think so though...
JESS C. SCOTT

When interacting with people, I’m always aware that I might be the first vegan this person has eve...
WENDY WERNETH

If from morning to night we just took care of one thing after another, thoroughly and completely and...
CHARLOTTE JOKO BECK

If I’m conceited enough to believe I’m invincible, then maybe it will take me doing the very thi...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH

Spending time with you showed me what I’ve been missing in my life. The more time we spent togethe...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

My life sucks when I’m only half-aware of it. If I quit drinking and saw what it’s really like, ...
BECCA FITZPATRICK

I can’t tell you. I can’t tell you of all people. Throughout my life you were the one person I c...
TABITHA SUZUMA

I was trying to feel some kind of good-bye. I mean I’ve left schools and places I didn’t even kn...
J.D. SALINGER

She was my go-to person. I’d tell her everything. Now, all of those late-night phone calls, all th...
JAIME REED

Sometimes I just want to go in a room and break things and scream. Like, it’s so much pressure all...
LIBBA BRAY

I’ve always been good at denial. I didn’t know I’m such an expert that I can crawl into an aba...
AMANDA BOUCHET

I love you, ” he says , his words harsh and soft all at once. “ I love you and it isn’t enough...
TAHEREH MAFI

I never thought I was a bad person. I just thought I was the one good person living in a world of ba...
DEAN AMBROSE

I was a paralegal who worked in the office quite a bit. I think she just realized I was a friendly p...
JULI LAX

I realize that I quite like this girl. It’s not just that she’s so pretty the words fly out of m...
JODI PICOULT

First of all . . . I have standards. I’ve never been with an ugly woman.
Ever. Second of all,...
JAMIE MCGUIRE

There’s something simmering inside of me. Something I’ve never dared to tap into, something I’...
TAHEREH MAFI

I’ve seen how cigarettes went from being advertised in every type of media to being something foun...
REBECCA MCNUTT

When I was twelve, a fortune teller told me that my one true love would die young and leave me all a...
TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO

I thought coming here would change things for me, but I’m starting to worry that I’ve done what ...
MELISSA DECARLO

I’ve never had a job I was afraid to lose, a bill I worried about paying or met a person hoping I ...
CARLOS WALLACE

Unfortunately, the source of my shittiness is the fact that I’m shitty. I just am. It is not possi...
ALLIE BROSH

I’m the lady by day, and I’m Gaga by night. And I’m always going to be that way, because it’...
LADY GAGA

I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants ...
J.D. SALINGER

Just because I liked something at one point in time doesn’t mean I’ll always like it, or that I ...
JAROD KINTZ

Cole said, “You’re the only good thing I’ve ever done in my life.” I replied, “I’m sorry...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER

I’ve indulged all my escapist dreams. I’m here, away from everyone, living it up. Being a selfis...
FENNEL HUDSON

I always believed that If I’m not carrying at least a slight poetically painful crack in my heart ...
ANNIE ALI

I’m a wild girl from a cursed line of women. I paw at the ground and run under the moon. I like th...
LIBBA BRAY

I’m not mad. I already told you that. We all have mistakes in our past...and our future. It’s a ...
SHANNON A. THOMPSON

I wouldn’t know what to do with daughters,' he says. 'Exchange them for sons?'

'But the...
KAUI HART HEMMINGS

If I’m perplexed by the fact that I’m constantly lost, maybe somewhere in my head I’ve determi...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH

I talk about writing and write so much because aside from music, it’s the only thing giving me pea...
PHIL VOLATILE

One person. All it takes is one person. I couldn’t save Harry for Lily. So now I give my allegianc...
JACK THORNE

I’ve been fighting to be who I am all my life. What’s the point of being who I am, if I can’t ...
STEPHANIE LENNOX

I think this is the ugliest place I’ve ever seen. Not just here. The whole state.” I hear my par...
JENNIFER NIVEN

I’VE ALWAYS BEEN AN ANTI-ESTABLISHMENT KIND OF PERSON. HAVING BEEN A PART OF THE HARD CORE PUNK SC...
ANJI BEE

You know a trillion times more about art than me. But I’ve learned that it isn’t necessary to kn...
TOM ROBBINS

People are always asking me when I’m going to retire. Why should I? I’ve got it two ways - I’m...
GEORGE F. BURNS

I learned that I suffered from bipolar II disorder, a less serious variant of bipolar I, which was o...
AYELET WALDMAN

I had to be off by myself. I didn't want to be in that group because I knew they would go crazy. I w...
CHARLIE DOTSON

I’ve learned that home isn’t a place, it’s a feeling.
CECELIA AHERN

Jo Wood was sound, sound as a bell. Solid, cynical, amused and occasionally amusing, he did not appe...
STEPHEN FRY

It isn’t easy when life tears away the one person in a million you thought you could always trust.
BENJAMIN R. SMITH

Why can’t the world hear? I ask myself. Within a few moments I ask it many times. Because it doesn...
MARKUS ZUSAK

I see the glow before I see her. The orange light is so strong it’s hard to believe the house isn�...
ERICA CAMERON

I’ve been looking for a feeling like that everywhere I go. I’ve been waiting for someone to see ...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

It’s all part of the dance, she thought; the dust, her hands, the light that was spiraling around ...
CLIVE BARKER

So say I’m your mom.'
'What?' I said.
'I’m your mom,' he repeated. 'Now tell me you wa...
SARAH DESSEN

I’m so thankful for every hardship, and every ending I’ve endured; if it wasn’t for adversity,...
SCOTTIE SOMERS

This is my home, Cape Breton is my home, and I don’t know if I really want to leave it as much as ...
REBECCA MCNUTT

7am

They said that I’d forget you,
and I knew it wasn’t true.
But sometimes...
COCO J. GINGER

I would laugh at all my provincial inmates, but I’m too busy lusting. I’m not usually interested...
KRISTEN CHANDLER

If I was crazy, would I know it? That's what being crazy was, wasn't it? You thought you were fine. ...
KELLEY ARMSTRONG

I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you. I knew this...
HARUKI MURAKAMI

Just say “I’m sorry.” It’s not a tongue twister. It does not need repeating multiple times. ...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH

I run because it’s my passion, and not just a sport. Every time I walk out the door, I know why I�...
SASHA AZEVEDO

Have you really read all those books in your room?”

Alaska laughing- “Oh God no. I’...
JOHN GREEN

I think it’s important to have a good hard failure when you're young. I learned a lot out of that....
WALT DISNEY COMPANY

I’ve got money!” Eve exclaimed in a frantic frenzy of hope, her eyes dancing wildly with the not...
REBECCA MCNUTT

It’s not that I don’t like cats. And really, I think I would enjoy having… a cat. But what if ...
CORA CARMACK

I fell for her in summer, my lovely summer girl,
From summer she is made, my lovely summer girl...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER

I've never had any problem with crazy people. I like crazy people; I probably am a crazy person ...
ERROL MORRIS

He must think.. that I’m dumb and innocent. But I’ve shown who I really am.. many things happene...
AI YAZAWA

I’m glad you think so. I’ve always considered my sense of humor to be largely underappreciated, ...
RACHEL VINCENT

Yeah, that’s my experience. Humbling to the point where you have major regrets about some of the s...
HENRY ROLLINS

Are you sure that’s a real spell?’ said the girl. ‘Well, it’s not very good, is it? I’ve t...
J.K. ROWLING

I have a very addictive personality. If it isn’t women, it’s money. If it isn’t money, it’s ...
CARLA H. KRUEGER

When I was with him suddenly I wasn’t this broken person anymore.
I was just me.
I was w...
RANATA SUZUKI

When people would ask me what I’m addicted to, I always said ‘music.’ And while they’d laugh...
BLAKE LEWIS

Maybe I’m strange and perverse, but I’ve always thought there was something sexy about a compell...
THERESE DOUCET

You deserve better. I can’t promise you I’ll stay around, not because I don’t want to. It’s ...
JENNIFER NIVEN

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