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Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson
5.0
My first Jeannette Winterson, after years of Emily telling me to read her! I was going to subtract one star for how often I wanted to skip paragraphs that didn't not contribute to the non-structure... But then I hit the chapter about the library, and her depression, and climbing out, and I knew that she would stick with me for a long time; thus, five stars.
"My violent rages, my destructive behavior, my own need to destroy love and trust, just as love and trust had been destroyed for me... Didn't that have romance to it? Wasn't that the creative spirit unbounded? No. Creativity is on the side of health -- it isn't the thing that drives us mad; it is the capacity in us that tries to save us from madness."
"My violent rages, my destructive behavior, my own need to destroy love and trust, just as love and trust had been destroyed for me... Didn't that have romance to it? Wasn't that the creative spirit unbounded? No. Creativity is on the side of health -- it isn't the thing that drives us mad; it is the capacity in us that tries to save us from madness."