Secrets for the Mad Quotes

“When you can't find your purpose in a day, make it to look after yourself.”
― Dodie Clark, Secrets for the Mad

“Life is a bus ride, with only so many seats. It took me a long time to comprehend that sometimes people had to leave my life, to make room for the better ones, but once I understood that it became easier to let go, and I was surprised at just how quickly new, interesting people somehow found their way onto my bus.”
― Dodie Clark, Secrets for the Mad

“My rotting brain had lied to me; of course talking would help. Of course my loving, caring friends telling me it would get better would help. They fed ropes down the hold I'd been digging, and even if they couldn't pull me up, they at least reminded me that there was a world beyond this, where I'd been before.”
― Dodie Clark, Secrets for the Mad

“I felt guilty about that for a while until I realized everyone is just a collage of their favorite parts of other people.”
― Dodie Clark, Secrets for the Mad

“I hung back, staring at cars driving past and wondering if they were moving fast enough to knock me down.”
― Dodie Clark, Secrets for the Mad

“But a back rub is a back rub, and a hug is a hug, and contact with someone you love and who loves you is healing.” - Page 12”
― Dodie Clark, Secrets for the Mad

“you can never undo the brain;
now it knows of the holes it will fall as it's trained.”
― Dodie Clark, Secrets for the Mad

“I have the highest of highs and the lowest of lows, crashing in moments of despair and agony and then soaring up to incredible, epiphanic peaks of life where, suddenly, all the pain and hardship makes sense and look just as beautiful as all the good times.”
― Dodie Clark, Secrets for the Mad

“I will learn how to find love for myself by myself,”
― Dodie Clark, Secrets for the Mad: Obsessions, Confessions and Life Lessons

“but the tattoo isn’t a regret because it’s a reminder of exactly when I got it, when things were at their best. Life changed. But that moment, that little while, didn’t.”
― Dodie Clark, Secrets for the Mad: Obsessions, Confessions and Life Lessons

“I’d found myself again in ‘opening a window when there’s rain’ and ‘first kisses’ and ‘good books and the worlds you get lost in’.”
― Dodie Clark, Secrets for the Mad: Obsessions, Confessions and Life Lessons

“But a back rub is a back rub, and a hug is a hug, and contact with someone you love and who loves you is healing.”
― Dodie Clark, Secrets for the Mad: Obsessions, Confessions and Life Lessons

“people swimming in honey as your life falls apart.”
― Dodie Clark, Secrets for the Mad: Obsessions, Confessions and Life Lessons