Depression is like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your mind. You just got to be careful not to touch it where it hurts. It's always there, though.

Dieting fooled you into thinking you could control your life.

and she had succeeded, on the second try, in hurling herself out of the world

If Mitchell was ever going to become a good Christian, he would have to stop disliking people so intensely.

To start with, look at all the books.

Yes, you need a passport to prove to the world that you exist. The people at passport control, they cannot look at you and see you are a person. No! They have to look at a little photograph of you. Then they believe you exist.

Chunks of his life fell away, so that while we were moving ahead in time, he was moving back.