"Homeland and Other Stories" Quotes

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.

You never know what you're going to feel next, especially with all these new hormones coursing through your body. And you have to try and stay in the moment, because the moments are what make up the hours, and the hours are what make up the days.

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth but not its twin.

It's strange how close together the good and bad things are in life. The worst things can be so exhausting, but the best things are just as tiring, because you have to fight to keep them in your life.

We all do what we can and it has to be enough. Life is too short to be criticized by our own selves.

You can only be as happy as you let yourself be.

Sometimes the things that don't seem like they'll be good for us are the ones that turn out the best.

Sometimes you have to be your own hero, because sometimes the people you can't live without can live without you.

You don't need to be what other people want you to be. You can be yourself.