More or Less Maddy

by Lisa Genova

funny how the brain insists on meaning when there’s nothing there at all.

How many hours do you sleep at night? None, seventeen, it depends.

She knew everything about him up until the first week of August, and then she knew nothing at all.

One kiss, and she’s back on the carnival ride.

Every morning for three weeks, she swallowed a pink Celexa with water—the breakfast of champions for today’s modern woman.

She feels fan-fuckin’-tastic. So there’s clearly no need for little pink pills.

she is and will forever be bipolar.

“I wish I could divorce bipolar’s ass,”

“But here’s the most common reaction I get from people. “ ‘Like Kanye?’ “Yes, like Kanye.