Treating an identity as an illness invites real illness to make a braver stand.

People … don't want to be cured or changed or eliminated. They want to be whoever it is that they've come to be.

I had known a couple of people who had died, but the loss of my mother contained something of the profoundly unknowable.

Despair is part of love.

We cannot bear a pointless torment, but we can endure great pain if we believe that it's purposeful.

Science still won't explain the mysterious nature of love and despair.

A sense of humor is the best indicator that you will recover; it is often the best indicator that people will love you. Sustain that and you have hope.