Ward D Quotes

“Whenever I pick up a book, it’s like an escape. For an hour or two, I get to be part of the book world instead of my own much more boring world.”
― Freida McFadden, Ward D

“A mental health diagnosis is not a death sentence. All the patients in this unit are just trying to get better.”
― Freida McFadden, Ward D

“A mental health diagnosis is not a death sentence.”
― Freida McFadden, Ward D

“I always made time to read. Whenever I pick up a book, it’s like an escape. For an hour or two, I get to be part of the book world instead of my own much more boring world.”
― Freida McFadden, Ward D

“It might be over. But I definitely have not won.”
― Freida McFadden, Ward D

“I scan the room, from my Jonas Brothers and Taylor Swift posters on the walls to my pink and green bedspread to my bookcase and the trophy I won last year”
― Freida McFadden, Ward D

“There are a bunch of mugs lined up by the sink. I pick up one that says “If you’re happy and you know it, thank your meds.”
― Freida McFadden, Ward D

“How does somebody get to the point where their brain stops functioning like a normal brain? That their reality completely breaks from the reality that every other person in the world lives in? And what’s to stop it from happening to anyone else?”
― Freida McFadden, Ward D

“there are heavy gray clouds are”
― Freida McFadden, Ward D

“Well, what can I say? I love peach iced tea.”
― Freida McFadden, Ward D

“Mrs. Pritchett proceeds to show me about five billion Polaroid photos of her brand new kitten.”
― Freida McFadden, Ward D

“After all, there’s nothing worse than losing your mind.”
― Freida McFadden, Ward D

“After all, if you meet someone who is truly mentally ill, that’s the only way to know that you’re sane.”
― Freida McFadden, Ward D

“not covered in blood. He’s actually covered in red jelly”
― Freida McFadden, Ward D

“It’s Miguel”
― Freida McFadden, Ward D

“If they were well controlled”
― Freida McFadden, Ward D

“the attending would listen to me.”
― Freida McFadden, Ward D

“And the worst part is that now there is absolutely nobody left I can trust.”
― Freida McFadden, Ward D

“Whenever I pick up a book”
― Freida McFadden, Ward D

“If you’re happy and you know it”
― Freida McFadden, Ward D

“I always made time to read. Whenever I pick up a book, it’s like an escape.”
― Freida McFadden, Ward D

“But I always made time to read. Whenever I pick up a book, it’s like an escape.”
― Freida McFadden, Ward D

“And it will be all your fault.”
― Freida McFadden, Ward D

“folie à deux?”
― Freida McFadden, Ward D

“Iam going to be spending the next thirteen hours of my life in a locked psychiatric ward.”
― Freida McFadden, Ward D

“idea that what he just said was complete nonsense. How does somebody get to the point where their brain stops functioning like a normal brain? That their reality completely breaks from the reality that every other person in the world lives in? And what’s to stop it from happening to anyone else?”
― Freida McFadden, Ward D

“I always loved to read too.” I flip through his dog-eared copy of Owen Meany. “Whenever we were assigned to read a book in school, I would always finish it after two days, even though we were only assigned to read like two chapters.” “That just makes you a nerd,” he says. “I, on the other hand, was a reading renegade. In class, while the teacher was teaching a lesson, I would be reading a book under my desk. I actually got detention for reading. My teacher was always saying, ‘Will, put that book away!”
― Freida McFadden, Ward D

“mental health diagnosis is not a death sentence. All the patients in this unit are just trying to get better.”
― Freida McFadden, Ward D

“If they were well controlled, the unit wouldn’t have to be locked, would it? But that’s not the real reason I am dreading my night on Ward D. I can’t tell Dr. Sleepy the real reason I was tossing and turning last night. I can’t tell anyone the real reason I’m desperately terrified of Ward D.”
― Freida McFadden, Ward D

“in fact,”
― Freida McFadden, Ward D