“You can be strapped to the most stable chair and still feel the world give way beneath you.”

“Anxiety's like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you very far.”

“Sometimes when you pick up your child you can feel the map of your own bones beneath your hands, or smell the scent of your skin in the nape of his neck. This is the most extraordinary thing about motherhood - finding a piece of yourself separate and apart that all the same you could not live without.”

“You want to do something about it - take action, scream at them, tell them they're idiots - but you can't. Being on the fringe is the most disempowering feeling. You get so used to the world being a certain way, there seems to be no escape from it.”

“You know how I get angry sometimes? That's because it's the only way I can still feel. And I need to test myself, to make sure I'm really here.”

“You can stay up all night and still not count all the ways to lose the people you love.”

“She understood how a world jammed with phones, email, and faxes could still leave you feeling utterly alone.”