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“Even if I could remember my way back to normal, I don’t think I’d recognise myself when I got there.”
― Alice Feeney, Sometimes I Lie

“Some people appear happy on the outside and you only know they’re broken inside if you listen as well as look.”
― Alice Feeney, Sometimes I Lie

“There is no such thing as better, as cured.”
― Linda Green, After I've Gone

“there is no such thing as sane and insane. That mental health is a continuum, a line on which we all move up and down at different points in our lives. And most of the time we manage to keep out of trouble. Only sometimes we hit the buffers at one end.”
― Linda Green

“doesn’t mean to say we are always going to be crazy either. Simply that we are back on that line, jostling for position with everyone else who claims to be normal.”
― Linda Green, After I've Gone

“the type of person who got kicked down and didn’t stay there.”
― Megan Miranda, The Perfect Stranger

“Learning how to draw myself back from the darkness was almost impossible. But I was willing to learn.”
― Janelle Harris, See Me Not

“I’m on automatic pilot. How long can I function like this? I laugh and smile, but the cracks are starting to show and I don’t know if I’ve got enough strength to hold it all together.”
― A.J. Waines, Inside The Whispers

“how easy it is to hide your true feelings with a smile and a kind word.”
― K.L. Slater, Safe With Me

“There was no question that we loved each other; love comes in many forms - it just wasn’t the kind of love marriages are made of.”
― A.J. Waines, Girl on a Train

“If you’re not in pain, how do you know you’re alive?”
― Michelle Kelly

“Sometimes, we protest most forcefully against what, deep down, we fear to be true.”
― Anna Schaffner, The Truth about Julia

“Love’s a marathon, Danny, not a sprint.”
― Caroline Kepnes, You

“It’s about coming across a person who has something you didn’t even know you wanted.”
― Colette McBeth, The Life I Left Behind

“Even those we’ve loved all our lives are highly unlikely to be perfect.”
― Rachel Abbott, Sleep Tight

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“But as I unscrew the lid I know that will never be enough.”
― Nuala Ellwood, My Sister's Bones

“Out of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most.”
― Mark Twain

“All right, then, I'll go to hell.”
― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

“Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe.”
― Mark Twain

“Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.”
― Mark Twain