Love, like madness, can only fill the models that society makes available.
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Neel Burton
PTSD in its rawest form is a death sentence which causes many veterans and others to execute themselves in hope to be free.
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Stanley Victor Paskavich
The maladies of the spirit alone, in abstracto, that is, error and sin, can be called diseases of the mind only per analogiam. They come not within the jurisdiction of the physician, but that of the teacher or clergyman, who again are called physicians of...
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Ernst Von Feuchtersleben
To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown.
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Jeanette Winterson
Now, Emily didn't make a sound. There was something more defining about the soundless reality that condemned the paradigm of passion.
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Allie Burke
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And then as the little plane climbed higher and Olive saw spread out below them fields of bright and tender green in this morning sun, farther out the coastline, the ocean shiny and almost flat, tiny white wakes behind a few lobster boats--then Olive felt...
Angelina said, "Mom. I don't want you to die. That's the whole thing. You took from me the ability to care for you in your old age, and I wanted to be with you when you died, when you die. Mom. I wanted that.
She understood that Simon was a disappointed man if he needed, at ths age, to tell her he had pitied her for years.
People always kept moving, her mother had said, it's the American way. Moving west, moving south, marrying up, marrying down, getting divorced - but moving...
It seems to Henry, as he takes his seat in his usual middle pew, that women are far braver than men
