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.

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

The only obvious advantage to being an adult is that you can eat your dessert without haying sampled the vegetables.

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

Dying was apparently a weaning process; all the attachments to familiar people and objects have to be undone.

Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.

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