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You only really know what a smile means when you own the face behind it. Everyone else just sees the smile they expect it to be.

Some memories refuse to be locked in time or place, they are always present.

I do not have a split mind. I am not different people. I am myself, the same self I have always been, the one person I can never escape.

She would never force her company on someone, no matter how much she might want to.
Ha.
She's like a vampire. She has to be invited in.

Reading is a bit like hallucinating.

I think people who are generous with food have a goodness about them.

Thinking about the past is like digging up graves

Most of life isn't anything. Most of life is just the passing of time, and we're even asleep for a fair chunk of that.

But that is what these people do - the Steves of this world - they all try and make something out of nothing. and they all do it for themselves.

Inside my head is a jigsaw made of trillions and trillions and trillions of atoms. It might take a while.

Words like guilt and shame and nightmares - the kind of nightmares that drag you from sleep, and leave you reaching for something no longer there.

I guess there's a Use By date when it comes to blaming your parents for how messed up you are.

She's known sadness. That's what it is. I only just thought that as I wrote it. She's known sadness, and it has made her kind.

Once-upon-a-time we buried the memories we didn't want.

It doesn't need to be perfect,' she said at last. 'It's already wonderful.

We are selfish, my illness and I. We think only of ourselves. We shape the world around us into messages, into secret whispers spoken only for us.

This is what labels do. They stick. If people think you're MAD, then everything you do, everything you think, will have MAD stamped across it.

Any punishment is an insult to the crime

Some things in life are exactly as we imagine.

I can only describe reality as I know it. I'm doing my best, and promise to keep trying. Shake on it.

Practice what you preach

These are the moments that make the dot-to-dot pictures of our past; everything else is simply filling in the gaps.

It's hard to know what to say sometimes, when someone does something so nice. It's hard to know where to look.

But one thing I've learnt about people, is that they can always surprise you.

I guess children believe whatever they want to believe. Perhaps adults do too.

I don't want the world to keep turning without me on it.

But sometimes all the stars in the entire universe conspire to make something good happen.

What I did at the memorial, was listen.
To the laughter and the tears, and to the quiet stillness that followed.

Some people can remember way back to the beginning of their lives. I've even met people who say they can remember being born.