Quotes from book

Reasons to Stay Alive

“Maybe love is just about finding the person you can be your weird self with.”

“There is no standard normal. Normal is subjective. There are seven billion versions of normal on this planet.”

“Three in the morning is never the time to try and sort out your life.”

“Just when you feel you have no time to relax, know that this is the moment you most need to make time to relax.”

“If you are the type of person who thinks too much about stuff then there is nothing lonelier in the world than being surrounded by a load of people on a different wavelength.”

“To other people, it sometimes seems like nothing at all. You are walking around with your head on fire and no one can see the flames.”

“People with mental illnesses aren't wrapped up in themselves because they are intrinsically any more selfish than other people. Of course not. They are just feeling things that can't be ignored. Things that point the arrows inward.”

“How to stop time: kiss.
How to travel in time: read.
How to escape time: music.
How to feel time: write.
How to release time: breathe.”

“There is this idea that you either read to escape or you read to find yourself.”

“MINDS ARE UNIQUE. They go wrong in unique ways. My mind went wrong in a slightly different way to how other minds go wrong. Our experience overlaps with other people's, but it is never exactly the same experience.”

“I want life. I want to read it and write it and feel it and live it. I want, for as much of the time as possible in this blink-of-an-eye existence we have, to feel all that can be felt.”

“You can be a depressive and be happy, just as you can be a sober alcoholic.”

“Wherever you are, at any moment, try and find something beautiful. A face, a line out of a poem, the clouds out of a window, some graffiti, a wind farm. Beauty cleans the mind.”

“An annoying thing about depression is that thinking about life is inevitable. Depression makes thinkers out of all of us.”

“Life is waiting for you. You might be stuck here for a while, but the world isn’t going anywhere. Hang on in there if you can. Life is always worth it.”