Quotes from Terri Cheney's novel, Manic“The world is essentially bipolar: driven to extremes but defined by flux.”
“Saints are always just a stumble away from sinners.”
“Nothing is absolute, not even death.”
“Happiness is fine, in its season, but happiness out of season is a sure harbinger of doom.”
“In my case, it could definitely be illegal to be too happy.”
“When you’re manic, it’s sometimes impossible to change direction.”
“I’ve thrown a lot of things in the toilet on my way up to mania – not all of them visible, or easily replaced.”
“Anyone who lives on the sane side of mania can’t possibly imagine the agony of enforced silence.”
“That perilous highs and desperate lows and extravagant flurries of mood are not always symptoms of a broken mind, but signs of a beating heart.”
“Simply by wielding a credit card, I could manipulate the surface of things – substitute symmetry for dissonance, balance for distortion.”
“When you’re manic, your mind is running so fast that you can easily envision alternate endings at any given moment.”
“Manic epiphanies are like shooting stars: flashes of brilliance that are gone in an instant.”
“I’ve never liked the telephone. It’s a noisy, shrill intruder.”
“Gravity is conspiring against you.”
“When God wants to punish us, He grants us our sins.”
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