...We never set eyes on Fatima or our dog or the city we had known ever again. Like a body prematurely buried, unmourned withpot coffin or ceremony, our hasty untidy exit from Jerusalem was no way to have said goodbye to our home, our country and all that we knew and loved.
Ghada KarmiTag: memoir
Fact: upon locking yourself our of your apartment you will immediately need to use the bathroom. Fact: and then you will stand in place and watch your door. You will just stare. As though rebuffed by it. As though it has done this to you.
Augusten BurroughsChasing angels or fleeing demons, go to the mountains.
Jeffrey RasleyTag: memoir philanthropy mountains biography mountaineering tibet nepal expeditions himalayas three-cups-of-tea trekking
In my opinion, our health care system has failed when a doctor fails to treat an illness that is treatable.
Kevin Alan LeeTag: politics society philosophy psychology humanism memoir government medicine culture political-science psychiatry socialism health-care mental-illness schizophrenia medical reference health-care-system split-mind
You wanted to live inside the lines where the ordinariness of everything would protect you from the dragons that lay at the edge of the map ready to blow fire in your face if you strayed off course, to the edge of the known world.
Anne RoipheTag: memoir 1950s anne-roiphe
Murphy's law inverted: What can go right, will go right.
Saloma Miller FurlongTag: inspirational memoir coming-of-age amish escape-from-the-amish
Murphy's law inverted: What can go right, will go right. (Works if you're an optimist.)
Saloma Miller FurlongTag: inspirational memoir coming-of-age amish escape-from-the-amish
The things that make you a functional citizen in society - manners, discretion, cordiality - don't necessarily make you a good writer. Writing needs raw truth, wants your suffering and darkness on the table, revels in a cutting mind that takes no prisoners...
Natalie GoldbergTag: truth honesty memoir raw darkness-dawns
It's nonverbal: I need love. I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on. And I know it's around me somewhere, but I just can't feel it.
Elizabeth WurtzelTag: memoir depression
Into every sunny life a little rain must fall.
Elizabeth WurtzelTag: memoir
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