She may have looked normal on the outside, but once you'd seen her handwriting you knew she was deliciously complicated inside.

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.

A changeableness, too, as if beneath my visible face there was another, having second thoughts.

But, like anyone in love, Madeleine believed that her own relationship was different from every other relationship, immune from typical problems.

It was something every child knew how to do, maintain a direct and full connection with the world. Somehow you forgot about it as you grew up, and had to learn it again.

Mitchell had answered that, as far as he understood them, mystical experiences were significant only to the extent that they changed a person's conception of reality, and if that changed conception led to a change in behavior and action, a loss of ego.

That was when Leonard realized something crucial about depression. The smarter you were, the worse it was. The sharper your brain, the more it cut you up.