"Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it. Seek out the memories depression takes away and project them into the future. Be brave; be strong; take your pills. Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds. Eat when food itself disgusts you. Reason with yourself when you have lost your reason."

"I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good."

"Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair."

"Antonin Artaud wrote on one of his drawings, "Never real and always true," and that is how depression feels. You know that it is not real, that you are someone else, and yet you know that it is absolutely true."

"Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance."

"A sense of humor is the best indicator that you will recover; it is often the best indicator that people will love you. Sustain that and you have hope."

"I chose fat and functional over slender and miserable."

"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."

"Ничто не ужасает меня сильнее, чем мысль о том, что когда-нибудь я утрачу способность себя убить."

"Если я решу покончить с собой, психологически мне не надо будет далеко ходить, потому что умом и сердцем я более готов к этому, чем к незапланированным повседневным пертурбациям, отмечающим собою каждое утро и каждый полдень."