Martha Manning Quotes

#1. Sometimes hell has no words.

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#2. I should come with a consumer warning, like the labels that say "Handle with care" or "May be hazardous to your health." I am unfit for human consumption. I struggle to articulate how awful and isolating this feels, but I can't find the words.

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#3. The body remembers what your mind forgets.

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#4. The infinity of this vacancy, the pervasive pain, the longing for some spirit, some lightness, some joy - that's all that is left.

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#5. Some struggles are so solitary that they drown in words.

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#6. The bottom line is that my life has already almost slipped away from me. I have two choices: I can end it or I can fight like hell to save it.

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#7. I always feel bad laughing at people who act crazy. But sometimes the things they do are so damned funny. I wonder what I'd look like if I slipped a few notches on the mental-health index.

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#8. Psychologists call it "free-floating" anxiety. What contradictory words. Anxiety doesn't free-float. It stalks. It attacks. It lands on you with a thud.

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#9. Depression is such a cruel punishment. There are no fevers, no rashes, no blood tests to send people scurrying in concern. Just the slow erosion of the self, as insidious as any cancer. And, like cancer, it is essentially a solitary experience. A room in hell with only your name on the door.

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#10. In these flashes of insight, I understand for a moment that one of the great dividends of darkness is an increased sensitivity to the light.

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#11. It's enough just to speak when spoken to, to give some minimal reaction to a stimulus. But to actually be the stimulus doesn't even occur to me.

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