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“She would not be mastered by anything again. She was the master of herself.”
― A Court of Silver Flames
― A Court of Silver Flames

“Because I am capable of achievement, I find myself uncomfortable around those who are visibly psychotic and audibly disorganized. I’m uncomfortable because I don’t want to be lumped in with the screaming man on the bus, or the woman who claims that she’s the reincarnation of God. I’m uncomfortably uncomfortable because I know that these are my people in ways that those who have never experienced psychosis can’t understand, and to shun them is to shun a large part of myself.”
― The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
― The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays

“A diagnosis is comforting because it provides a framework—a community, a lineage—and, if luck is afoot, a treatment or cure. A diagnosis says that I am crazy, but in a particular way: one that has been experienced and recorded not just in modern times,”
― The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
― The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays

“Whatever you need to throw at me, I can take it. I won't break.”
― A Court of Silver Flames
― A Court of Silver Flames

“Rebecca Solnit says in The Faraway Nearby, “There is a serenity in illness that takes away all the need to do and makes just being enough,” which has not been my experience. After all, prolonged and chronic illness stitches itself into life in a different way than acute illness does. With chronic illness, life persists astride illness unless the illness spikes to acuity; at that point, surviving from one second to the next is the greatest ambition I can attempt. The absolution from doing more and dreaming big that I experience during surgeries and hospitalization is absent during chronic illness.”
― The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
― The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
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