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“you have a shell, and I want to get in there and crack it wide open and show you how magnificent you already are, and how magnificent you’ll be.”
― Leslie McAdam, The Sun and the Moon

“I couldn't control my brain any more.  It wasn't working.  It was like a record player needle had slipped into the groove in the vinyl”
― Leslie McAdam, The Sun and the Moon

“I didn't know what to think or believe anymore. It was overwhelming. Everything I had thought was wrong. I needed to make up my own mind on what to believe, but I had no idea what the right way was to do that.  So what did I do? I drank. A lot.”
― Leslie McAdam, The Sun and the Moon

“As I drove, I thought about the past year. It was amazing that I was noticing things like the ocean sparkle and stink, the pelicans, the crash of the waves, and the islands. Depression made you not notice things like that. It closed your world down and you didn’t enjoy anything at all. It was just too hard to do anything. Think. Move. Appreciate. Breathe. Too hard to do any of that.”
― Leslie McAdam, The Sun and the Moon

“I could drag my sorry ass out of bed most days, but I wasn’t sure of the reason why I did so.”
― Leslie McAdam, The Sun and the Moon

“depression was "anger turned inward." Perhaps.  Before, I didn't even know that I was angry: Angry at my ex. Angry at God. Angry for what I had lost. Angry for the way my life was turning out.  Angry at wasting my time feeling guilty or depressed about things that were part of my upbringing or environment, but were not who I really was.”
― Leslie McAdam, The Sun and the Moon

“As a lawyer, advocating for my clients, I was used to being cocky, saying my mind, and arguing. But when it came to myself, I could be shy and often I wouldn’t ask for what I wanted.”
― Leslie McAdam, The Sun and the Moon

“I felt clean and spare, like I had been filleted down to my bones, and was starting to rebuild my muscle with good things.”
― Leslie McAdam, The Sun and the Moon

“Something about the bare walls made me feel like I could hear the echoes of past mental patients' screaming embedded in them.”
― Leslie McAdam, The Sun and the Moon

“Drawing back, and then folding into the shore. Pause, crash. Pause, crash. It made you feel like you were a part of something infinite, looking at the endless waves like that.”
― Leslie McAdam, The Sun and the Moon

“Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust. You couldn’t be here if stars hadn’t exploded, because the elements - the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution and for life - weren’t created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars, and the only way for them to get into your body is if those stars were kind enough to explode. So, forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.”
― Lawrence M. Krauss