"Why, when you have a mental disease, is it always considered an act of imagination? Why is it that every organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy except the brain?"

-- Ruby Wax

#Sick Quotes #Imagination Quotes #Brain Quotes

“Americans tend to endorse the use of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia when the question is abstract and hypothetical.”
“Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.”
“Vets are close to my heart, okay, and it's not only because I served, okay. It's because of what they go through, okay. A lot of these people have gave their lives, a lot of them have gave their limbs, okay, you know, that's a, that's a, that's a heap, you know.”
“All I do is keep on running in my own cozy, homemade void, my own nostalgic silence. And this is a pretty wonderful thing. No matter what anybody else says.”
“I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns.”

Source : John Jay Chapman, Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe (1937). “John Jay Chapman and his letters ...”
“A writer is dreamed and transfigured into being by spells, wishes, goldfish, silhouettes of trees, boxes of fairy tales dropped in the mud, uncles' and cousins' books, tablets and capsules and powders...and then one day you find yourself leaning here, writing on that round glass table salvaged from the Park View Pharmacy--writing this, an impossibility, a summary of who you came to be where you are now, and where, God knows, is that?”
“maybe, beauty, true beauty, is so overwhelming, it goes straight to our hearts.maybe it makes us feel emotions that are locked away inside”
“I know it's not easy for you, living this life, but try to remember, always try to remember, you're not the only one with troubles.”

Source : Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.51, Hachette UK

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