successful parenting was like log rolling, and she'd often landed in the drink.

Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.

Depression was a very active state really. Even if you appeared to an observer to be immobilized, your mind was in a frenzy of paralysis. You were unable to function, but were actively despising yourself for it.

A snake will always be a snake, even if you put a chain around its neck and try to make it walk upright.

The strength you've insisted on assigning to others is actually within yourself.

The French would eat anything that couldn't outrun them.

If this was adulthood the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that she could now eat dessert without eating her vegetables.