More or Less Maddy Quotes

“I wish you could feel what it feels like to be in my head.” —Selena Gomez”
― Lisa Genova, More or Less Maddy

“Her thirst is a toddler who begs for one more bedtime story after every last page, relentless, unreasonable, and never satisfied.”
― Lisa Genova, More or Less Maddy

“But this (bipolar disorder) chose her. Without her consent, like an arranged marriage, till death do they part. She wants an annulment, a divorce, an open window onto a fire escape, a new doctor, a time machine. Some way out of this.”
― Lisa Genova, More or Less Maddy

“People pass her as if they can’t see her, as if she’s not really there. Maybe she’s as invisible as she feels.”
― Lisa Genova, More or Less Maddy

“tired from having lived the day rather than tired of living the day.”
― Lisa Genova, More or Less Maddy: A Novel

“It’s okay to be awesome.”
― Lisa Genova, More or Less Maddy

“I have bipolar disorder. Some people would say I am bipolar instead of I have bipolar. And that’s all good. You do you, but for me, it would feel weird to say I am something that I have.”
― Lisa Genova, More or Less Maddy

“Her mother wanted a normal life for her daughter because she believed that in normalcy, her daughter would be safe. But as they’ve learned, normal isn’t real. What passes for normal in Vegas isn’t normal in Connecticut. And even a culturally approved, traditionally “normal” life doesn’t inoculate anyone from hardship or unhappiness.”
― Lisa Genova, More or Less Maddy

“If she not only has bipolar but also is bipolar, then she herself is scary and unacceptable. And she can’t bear being scary and unacceptable to the people she loves.”
― Lisa Genova, More or Less Maddy

“people with depression, addiction, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder all bear the special burden of becoming their diagnoses—depressed, an addict, schizophrenic, bipolar.”
― Lisa Genova, More or Less Maddy

“I don’t think anybody should feel bad if they get diagnosed with a mental illness because it’s just information about you that helps you know how to take better care of yourself.” —Taylor Tomlinson”
― Lisa Genova, More or Less Maddy

“It’s okay to feel lonely and frustrated.”
― Lisa Genova, More or Less Maddy

“It’s okay to be happy.”
― Lisa Genova, More or Less Maddy

“Something inside told her to leave that bag of chips on the shelf, and she listened.”
― Lisa Genova, More or Less Maddy

“A tortured cry heaves inside her chest, silent and invisible to her mother, grieving her absolute failure as a human being.”
― Lisa Genova, More or Less Maddy

“And it’s far easier for her to imagine dying than living.”
― Lisa Genova, More or Less Maddy

“She misses who she was before her diagnosis.”
― Lisa Genova, More or Less Maddy

“If she hadn’t been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, she wouldn’t be going on a comedy tour in two weeks. None of the amazing things that have unfolded in her life would’ve happened without that fork in the road. Yes, that fork was scary and disruptive, but who wants to drive down a perfectly straight road for an entire lifetime?”
― Lisa Genova, More or Less Maddy