“There is so much pain in the world, and most of these people keep theirs secret, rolling through agonizing lives in invisible wheelchairs, dressed in invisible bodycasts.”

—  Andrew Solomon, book The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

Source: The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

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