Neurotics think of the past with resentment, and the future with dread; the present just doesn't exist.
Mignon McLaughlinNeurotics always feel as though they were going way up or way down, which is odd in people going sideways.
Mignon McLaughlinFamily quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back.
Mignon McLaughlin