“Strange isn't it, people spend their time making nice things and other people come along and brake them.”

“The whole key to life is discovering things for yourself. What you do with that discovery is what lies on the other side of that door.”

“Psychosis does not live in the head. It lives in the in-between of family members, and in the in-between of people," Salo explained. "It is in the relationship, and the one who is psychotic makes the bad condition visible. He or she 'wears the symptoms' and has the burden to carry them.”

“It isn't how much time you spend somewhere that makes it memorable; it's how you spend the time.”

“There are friends, but they are people to spend time with, not people to share time with.”

“In the United States, people with depression, bipolar, and schizophrenia are losing twelve to twenty years in life expectancy compared to people not in the mental health system.”

“Squished between my grandparents and moving at thirty miles an hour is a small price to pay to get to the vet's office, but today Luke begged to come along, so Papaw is driving even slower than usual. With Luke hunched don behind us in the bed of the truck, obviously without a seat belt, Mamaw keeps her eye on the odometer and yells about "precious cargo" every time the needle nears twenty.”