Mania can be as terrifying as it gets. It is certainly as insane as one gets and so it's frightening when it gets out of control, but there are periods of mania when it can be extremely attractive.

Everyone has good cause for suicide, or at least it seems that way to those who search for it. (74)

Look to the living, love them, and hold on.

No pill can help me deal with the problem of not wanting to take pills; likewise, no amount of psychotherapy alone can prevent my manias and depressions. I need both. It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one's own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, strange, and ultimately profound relationship called psychotherapy

Mania can be as terrifying as it gets. It is certainly as insane as one gets and so it's frightening when it gets out of control, but there are periods of mania when it can be extremely attractive.

Love has, at its best, made the inherent sadness of life bearable, and its beauty manifest.

I realized that it was not that I didn’t want to go on without him. I did. It was just that I didn’t know why I wanted to go on