If you have to end up in the hospital, try to focus all your pain in your heart rather than your head.

Perhaps depression is caused by asking oneself too many unanswerable questions.

There are no windows within the dark house of depression through which to see others, only mirrors.

It's raining questions around here. A person could drown in them.

It was the first time that we had sort of articulated our major problem. She wanted to die and I wanted her to live and we were enemies who loved each other.

If you have to end up in the hospital, try to focus all your pain in your heart rather than your head.

The other day I found her passport in her drawer when I was putting away my dad's laundered handkerchiefs. I wish I hadn't. For the purpose of my story, she should have it with her. I sat on my dad's bed and flipped through page after empty page. No stamps. No exotic locales. No travel-worn smudges or creases. Just the ID information and my mother's black-and-white photo which if it were used in a psychology textbook on the meaning of facial expressions would be labelled: Obscenely, heartbreakingly hopeful.