Amanda > Amanda's Quotes

“Crazy isn't being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever.”
― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

“I have dozens of loyal fans! Baker's dozens! …they come in thirteens.”
― Felicia Day

“A girl always remembers the first corpse she shaves.”
― Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory

“Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“When you are mad, mad like this, you don't know it. Reality is what you see. When what you see shifts, departing from anyone else's reality, it's still reality to you.”
― Marya Hornbacher, Madness: A Bipolar Life

“Telling someone who is manic that she's manic is like telling a dictator that he's a dick. Neither is going to admit it, and both are willing to torture you to prove their points.”
― Melody Moezzi, Haldol and Hyacinths: A Bipolar Life

“Madness strips you of memory and leaves you scrabbling around on the floor of your brain for the snatches and snippets of what happened, what was said, and when.”
― Marya Hornbacher, Madness: A Bipolar Life

“Falling in love happens so suddenly that it seems, all at once, that you have always been in love.”
― Marya Hornbacher, Madness: A Bipolar Life