Crazy Is My Superpower: How I Triumphed by Breaking Bones, Breaking Hearts, and Breaking the Rules

Just taking the time to put your mental health first, acknowledging that it deserves respect and care, and accepting help when you need it, can save your life. You are worth saving. And you are not alone.

For every girl who needs a hero and doesn't yet realize she will become her own.

We were rough around the edges, but that didn’t make us worthless. Being a little damaged does not make someone broken. It just means they have better stories to tell and cooler scars. It

If you pretend that you know what you are doing, a large group of people will blindly follow you

If you have a deep cut, you go to a doctor and get a stitch. If you have a cold, you go to a doctor and get medicine. So what makes having something wrong with your brain any different?

No matter what your circumstance, if you provide kids with creative ammunition, they will blast holes into an oppressive reality, and conceive limitless worlds.

I knew my value because the world seemed to be denying it, and that just made me want to prove it even more.

When you finally live out your biggest dream, the next step must always be "dream bigger.

If you’re lucky enough to find someone who stimulates your mind as successfully as your loins, lock that shit down.

When you have a job that requires you to serve other people, many parts of that job will, unequivocally, suck a top hat full of dicks.

It wasn’t long ago classmates called me a “nerd” in an attempt to hurt my feelings, and now that term is audaciously emblazoned on the front of T-shirts at Hot Topic. It

This disorder is a pain in the ass and it is work. At times it is a cross to bear, and at others it is just a piece of the AJ-shaped puzzle. It is a part of me, as natural as the color of my eyes, but it is not all of me. Bipolar disorder does not define me. And I refuse to let a simple word be used as a weapon against me. There is no arrangement of letters that can make me feel inferior.