Madness and Me Quotes

“Why is it that on those rare occasions when you feel good about the few attributes you have left, Mother Nature manages to move your makeup from your eyes to your cheeks and causes that lovingly coiffured fringe to stick to your forehead, making you look like a mad woman from a horror film? Or, better, a comedy spoof – and you are the leading lady stumbling from one cringe-inducing moment to the next.”
― Lisa Suzanne Nugent, Madness and Me: My Search for Sanity

“You are who you are, nothing more, nothing less. Nothing can truly change this but you. Love the good bits, move past the bad. No regrets, no hate, no blame. Be mindful, be awake, be alive, for it is precious, THIS LIFE.”
― Lisa Suzanne Nugent, Madness and Me: My Search for Sanity

“If you have an ounce of consciousness, you grit those pearly whites and you suck it up, for what you receive in return may be truly beautiful.”
― Lisa Suzanne Nugent, Madness and Me: My Search for Sanity

“As a fully grown and reasonably intelligent woman, I still try to justify every past and present thought and emotion I have ever had. Should I feel this way? Should I have had that thought? Is this normal? Am I bad?”
― Lisa Suzanne Nugent, Madness and Me: My Search for Sanity

“Does the mind have a safe-mode function that automatically stops you from downloading the hidden virus threatening to corrupt your precious files?”
― Lisa Suzanne Nugent, Madness and Me: My Search for Sanity

“So why did the voice of evil choose Mum as its vessel? Was she born with a genetic predisposition, or was her madness learnt? Did she allow it to take hold of a malrotated genome – a disease with no toxic chemicals to kill it – or was it instilled in her mind by an outside force? Were there parental influences conditioning the mind? Just as Pavlov trained his dogs to salivate at the ring of a bell, did Mum learn to listen to the voice that permeated her thoughts, allowing that voice to control her actions? If there is a history of tormented minds in a family, then does genetics win the argument?”
― Lisa Suzanne Nugent, Madness and Me: My Search for Sanity