Terri Cheney Quotes

#1. Stories don't always have to end happily.. Sometimes it's just enough that they end.

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#2. Trust is as fragile as fairies' wings and almost as hard to find.

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#3. I realized then why I was avoiding all the other patients. They were all potential mirrors. What I really feared wasn't the insanity of strangers. What I feared the most was my own disease. I was terrified I would catch a glimpse of myself in passing.

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#4. If you nurture it long enough, a lie can become a life.

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#5. Few things are strong enough to survive that deadly clash of mania and depression. Certainly not love. Love is far too fragile: it is a picture window, just begging to be shattered.

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#6. But instability like mine needs considerable distance to pass for mere quirkiness.

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#7. People always mean well, but they don't understand that when you're seriously depressed, suicidal ideation can be the only thing that keeps you alive. Just knowing there's an out - even if it's bloody, even if it's permanent - makes the pain almost bearable for one more day.

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#8. Love is a chemical imbalance, too. That perilous highs and desperate lows and extravagant flurries of mood are not always symptoms of a broken mind, but signs of a beating heart.

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#9. I've never liked the telephone. It's a noisy, shrill intruder. If it were up to me, I'd ban all phones and bring back visiting days, like in Jane Austen and Edith Wharton novels:

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#10. The world is essentially bipolar: driven to extremes but defined by flux. Saints are always just a stumble away from sinners. Nothing is absolute, not even death

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#11. [ ] manic sex isn't really intercourse. It's dicourse, just another way to ease the insatiable need for contact and communication. In place of words, I simply spoke with my skin.

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#12. The memory of sustenance is a terrible thing. Far worse, I think, than actual starving. Starving just kills you. Longing can gnaw away at you forever.

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#13. The cruelest curse of the disease is also its most sacred promise: You will not feel this way forever.

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#14. Was drug induced happy still happy? Was it the right kind of happy? Did it count?

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#15. Without the darkness, how can we ever hope to understand the light?

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#16. These flies were half the size of my fist. They came at you and stuck to you with a single-minded purpose you had to admire. We were hopelessly outnumbered, but we still slapped and kicked and karate-chopped ourselves until we reached an uneasy truce.

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#17. Happiness is fine, in its season, but happiness out of season is a sure harbinger of doom.

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#18. True beauty is not the absence of ugliness, but the acceptance of it.

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#19. I actually stopped talking. I actually listened. So I knew that I wasn't all the way manic, because when you're all the way manic you never listen to anybody but yourself.

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