Epileptic Quotes

“I'm not an epileptic but you're an arsehole. I'm important. I matter. I can do anything. I'm a sexy, strong woman that happens to have epilepsy. Do you get it? I have epilepsy but it's not who I am.”
― Ray Robinson, Electricity

“We got there without being spotted. I pulled her in, then shut the door, pressing my back to it and exhaling like an epileptic pilot who'd just landed a cargo plane full of dynamite.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Firefight

“Electricity is life but electricity is an invisible fist punching up your spine, knocking your brains right out of your skull.”
― Ray Robinson, Electricity

“[Epilepsy] gave her an adversity to fight against. It had shaped her personality, the need to be careful and secretive, and the ability to see things a bit differently from the neurotypical. She granted that this feeling of having a broken brain that required her to be sensitive, to look always inward to survive, might be why she turned artist.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys

“Suddenly, it seems obvious to me: Only fantasy books can make sense of the skewed reality in which I live.”
― David B., Epileptic

“Never underestimate the potential of a person with a disability. You might be looking at a future author that will inspire the discouraged at heart.”
― Amy Crane, In My Right Mind: My Life with Epilepsy

“In an electroencephalogram… one of her seizures was almost identical to an orgasm... Nothing happened during a seizure that couldn’t happen outside one, except that Roselyn was not in control of it and it happened all at once. Since then, she had experienced hundreds of orgasms and dozens of seizures and, though she didn’t come close to finding the latter nearly as entertaining as the former, it was always in her mind. In the midst of Dryden’s often machine gun lovemaking or her own considerably more directed and soft ministrations, it was always in the back of her mind at the moment of climax—this is a tenth of a seizure, this is a fifth of one.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys

“His father was an epileptic, and his sister was an imbecile.”
― Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Legal Study