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"There is no point in treating a depressed person as though she was just sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it'. Sadness is more or less like a head cold - with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer."
- The Bean Trees (by Barbera Kingsolver)

"You tell them we've all got meanness in us. But we've got good in us too.And the only thing worth livin' for is the good."
- Novalee Nation in 'Where the Heart Is'

"I shall fall upon my face and live the rest of my days, disgraced and odd, in a hermitage in the south of England, accompanied by fourteen cats of varying size and color. And when I venture out in my old age, I shall hear people whisper, 'There she goes...the one who fell...'"
-The Sweet Far Thing (Libba Bray)

“Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.”
– Christina Rossetti.

"There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves aroundyour limbs like spider silk, and when you are so enthralled you cannot move, they pierce your skin, enter your blood, numb your thoughts. Inside you they work their magic."
"You think that it's a strange thing to say, but it's true. All my life and all my experience, the events that have befallen me, the people I have known, all my memories, dreams, fantasies, evertything I have ever read, all of that has been chucked onto the compost heap where over time it has rotted down to ta dark, rich, organic mulch. The process of cellular breakdown makes it unrecognizable. Other people call it the imagination. I think of it as a compost heap. Every so often I take an idea, plant it in the compost, and wait. It feeds on that black stuff that used to be a life, takes its energy for its own. It germinates. Takes root. Produces shoots. And so on and so forth, until one fine day I have a story, or a novel"
- The Thirteenth Tale (Diane Setterfield