“Reading is one way I cope. I go somewhere else for a while and submerge myself in the character's problems instead of my mine.”

“We carry secrets under our skin like shrapnel. Our surface wounds heal, but the damage festers underneath while we worry what tiny pieces will work their way to the surface for the world to see.”

“You can solve all the world's problems in a garden.”

“The irony of the Information Age is that it has given new respectability to uninformed opinion.”

“Because that’s the thing about depression. When I feel it deeply, I don’t want to let it go. It becomes a comfort. I want to cloak myself under its heavy weight and breathe it into my lungs. I want to nurture it, grow it, cultivate it. It’s mine. I want to check out with it, drift asleep wrapped in its arms and not wake up for a long, long time.”

“What was it about this man that one minute had me wanting to throw myself at him, climb him like a cat to rub up against and the next, wanting to scratch his eyes out while I was up there?”

“No longer will I doubt my abilities...I will give myself a chance.”