Out Came the Sun Quotes

“…there is rarely any rhyme or reason in suicides. They can be a cry for help gone wrong, or a punishment to those you’re leaving behind, or one fateful twenty-minute window when you lose your bearings and can’t find the reasons to go on.”
― Mariel Hemingway, Out Came the Sun: Overcoming the Legacy of Mental Illness, Addiction, and Suicide in My Family

“A family is a cracked mirror that nevertheless reflects us accurately.”
― Mariel Hemingway, Out Came the Sun: Overcoming the Legacy of Mental Illness, Addiction, and Suicide in My Family

“Everyone needs to take control of his or her own life by making sense of it. It doesn’t matter how conventional or unconventional that process is.”
― Mariel Hemingway, Out Came the Sun: Overcoming the Legacy of Mental Illness, Addiction, and Suicide in My Family

“Suicide is a permanent question.”
― Mariel Hemingway, Out Came the Sun: Overcoming the Legacy of Mental Illness, Addiction, and Suicide in My Family

“I told her about how people in families felt left out sometimes, and how that could result in disappointment or sadness but also become something more volatile, a kind of uncontrolled fury.”
― Mariel Hemingway, Out Came the Sun: Overcoming the Legacy of Mental Illness, Addiction, and Suicide in My Family

“remember that my father was sad much of the time and that he grasped at ways of feeling better, whether through drinking or through escape. He reached out and all too often found nothing there to comfort him.”
― Mariel Hemingway, Out Came the Sun: Overcoming the Legacy of Mental Illness, Addiction, and Suicide in My Family

“innuendos—and sometimes they weren’t even”
― Mariel Hemingway, Out Came the Sun: Overcoming the Legacy of Mental Illness, Addiction, and Suicide in My Family