And I don‘t find a way to tell Melvin what I want to say. To say I am trying to unmake this, all of it. To say I‘m paddling backward against the waves.
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Edge of Every Day: Sketches of Schizophrenia | 
And I don‘t find a way to tell Melvin what I want to say. To say I am trying to unmake this, all of it. To say I‘m paddling backward against the waves.
We didn‘t ask for help understanding the things that confounded us, like sanity and insanity. So our own lives became unreal, even as they overwhelmed us.
When a man said to me, “I don‘t know what you‘re talking about,” and I realized that nobody says that unless they know exactly what you‘re talking about.