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“I have bipolar 2 disorder, anxiety disorder, and ADHD. I take my medications every day. I go to therapy every week. I hope, one day, I can be on the other side of therapy - you know, like the one who gets to write stuff down and shakes her head and listens.”
― Emma Thomas, Live for Me

“I think that’s the hardest thing about bipolar disorder. You don’t know if you will wake up in the morning and spike a manic episode or if you won’t want to get out bed because you’re in a depressive episode that makes you want to go back to sleep and never see the light of day again. The moment I tell someone I am bipolar, they are shocked. You know, the whole ‘I never would have known because you don’t act like it’s a thing.' It always makes me laugh. ‘What does bipolar look like to you, sir?â€� - that’s what I want to say to them.”
― Emma Thomas, Live for Me

“I look her in the eyes. ‘Words are just words. It’s the meaning of the words that determines how you feel about something. Feelings evoke emotions and make others feel something by what you say. You could say flatly, ‘I love you,â€� or you could look someone in the eye and say, with a different tone of voice, ‘I love you.â€� Which of those actually sounds like you love someone? That’s why it’s definitely how you say it.”
― Emma Thomas, Live for Me

“Support is the number one thing when it comes to fighting a mental illness. And the ones who have walked in the same shoes as you are the very best support system. There is no stigma in this group. There is no judging. We aren’t here to judge. We are here to understand and to let you know you aren’t alone in whatever battle you are facing. And that is why we started this group called You Matter.”
― Emma Thomas, Live for Me

“You can be doing great for months, maybe even years, and then boom, something happens, something triggers an episode. Then your life spirals into one big tornado of emotions that has swept you up right out from under yourself, and you lose control of everything, and you just spin around and around inside a dark, twisty, cloud, while everything flies out of control.”
― Emma Thomas

“I guess the fact that the three of us have had these diagnoses hanging over our heads makes us empathetic toward one another. When it is just us three, it is so much easier to be ourselves because we don’t have to try so hard. We all just understand each other and have become inseparable ever since.”
― Emma Thomas, Live for Me

“Then, he leaned in and KISSED ME! ON THE LIPS! Strong yet soft. Exciting yet grounding. Optimistic yet real. Closed-lipped and a little bit open. He looked at my eyebrows. And me. Smiling. “I like how your eyebrows are two different shapes.”
― Nicole Schubert, Saoirse Berger's Bookish Lens In La La Land

“Of course that was just one of her many strange little habits and quirks: she put onion flakes on breakfast cereal and poured bearnaise sauce on popcorn, and if you yawned when she was next to you, she would lean forward and stick a finger in your mouth, just to see if she could pull it out again before you closed your mouth. Sometimes she put cornflakes in Jim's shoes, sometimes little bits of boiled egg and anchovies in Jack's pockets, and the looks on their face when they realized seemed to amuse her more and more each time she did it. That's the kind of thing you miss. That she used to do this, that she used to do that. She *was,* she *is.*”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“The groomer wasn’t provided any dental care or skin care and that’s the truth. Just ask his dentdermatautologist, he’ll tell you.”
― J.S. Mason, The Satyrist...And Other Scintillating Treats

“I’d say he’s about 5â€�12,â€� Sebastian said.
“That’s 6�,� Whisky said.
“Yeah, same thing.”
― J.S. Mason, Whisky Hernandez

“Between high dunes and low dunes and sea oats she walked, a blonde nomad wandering among shorebirds.”
― Ray Blackston, A Delirious Summer

“Guys and their initiative - sometimes that too is like extracting meat from the armature of a crab.”
― Ray Blackston, A Delirious Summer

“Above the dunes of Pawleys Island a choir of sea oats bent westward, tickling the sunset and waving g'night.”
― Ray Blackston, A Delirious Summer

“As if it were a guest of honor bowing out prematurely, the sun sank wide-eyed and mischievous, to where staring was permissible and admiration was the only option, a pastel departure as wondrous and unique as fingerprint.”
― Ray Blackston, A Delirious Summer

“It's just that I'd rather get to know you before I get to know your lips.”
― Ray Blackston, A Delirious Summer

“Thanks for respecting me.”
― Ray Blackston, A Delirious Summer

“I listened again for a voice. But there was no voice tonight, just my obedience. No professional carpenters, just willing bodies. No last-minute detours off the interstate, just eight seats reserved in economy class.”
― Ray Blackston, A Delirious Summer

“The plane had seating for twelve, legroom for five, and all the turbulence of Darcy's family life.”
― Ray Blackston, A Delirious Summer

“Rich wisdom is better even than rich soil, young Neil. Jose sees now that you grow in wisdom like a weed in manure.”
― Ray Blackston, A Delirious Summer

“Against a blue sky the tangelo rose swiftly, first opposing gravity, then submitting, caught in the velocity like a ripe comet streaking towards the bonds of matrimony. In its arc flew the virtues of commitment and loyalty and passion, followed by the afterburners of summer â€� amorous and ablaze. Faster the tangelo descended, an orange blur; poetic, expensive, at once brunette and blonde, rotating so fast that its skin appeared tan, then pale, then something luminous, the color of love.”
― Ray Blackston, A Delirious Summer

“Sky’s brows drew together. “Did you know that one bolt of lightning could toast a hundred thousand pieces of bread?â€� She scratched the nape of her neck, not looking at Mia.”
― Katherine McIntyre, Confined Desires

“The following morning, Wilhelmina awoke to a lone lily pad moaning after escaping from an exquisite Monet painting piece that was hosting some shades of watercolor chips that were a century and half-oldish that subbed as a dish for artsy gourmet-eating tadpoles that had both a yearning for the foggy past and longing for their froggy future.”
― J.S. Mason, The Satyrist...And Other Scintillating Treats

“The guests also clanked together the special romantic shaped forks with hearts on the points, called valentines.”
― J.S. Mason, A Dragon, A Pig, and a Rabbi Walk into a Bar...and other Rambunctious Bites

“much like a when a bullfighter comes home he struts through the matadoor”
― J.S. Mason, A Dragon, A Pig, and a Rabbi Walk into a Bar...and other Rambunctious Bites

“That and the music was blaring. So loud that the radio station asked if they could keep it down as they cared about the safety of their listeners.”
― J.S. Mason, A Dragon, A Pig, and a Rabbi Walk into a Bar...and other Rambunctious Bites

“The best part of being a Woman is that we get the cake, the icing, the cherry on the icing and of course the Quintessential good looking Baker as well... We wouldn't want it any other way now, would we?”
― Pooja Marwah

“My job, should I decide to undertake it, as it were, is to determine if the accident was by fault of impaired equipment or that of a preternatural event as the screaming boom operator would have one believe. I vote for a ghost. It makes things infinitely more interesting or my name isn‘t Beluga Stein, P.I. â€� Psychic Investigator. Part-time anyway. That is, when I‘m not teaching biology to a bunch of undergrads who know everything about libido except how to spell it. So my ballot is cast for a ghost.”
― Wendy W Webb

“Who would judge you? Who do you know who's done a good job? Name one parent that you think made it through without fucking their kid up in some specific way.”
― Kevin Wilson, Nothing to See Here

“She could see a police car zooming into the parking lot and she ushered with her hands like a bullfighter on a runway that had lost his cape, but needed to get out of Spain to atone for his sins”
― J.S. Mason, Whisky Hernandez

“her hips were having an argument with the upper half of her body as to who was to get more eye contact”
― J.S. Mason, Whisky Hernandez