Quotes from Mariel Hemingway

I felt I had to share Idaho with my friend from New York because he'd shared New York with me, so I was going to share the beauty of nature with a man who went to museums and clubs late at night. But there was nothing to do where I lived at night.

there is rarely any rhyme or reason in suicides. They can be a cry for help gone wrong, or a punishment to those you're leaving behind, or one fateful twenty-minute window when you lose your bearings and can't find the reasons to go on.

A family is a cracked mirror that nevertheless reflects us accurately.

Those that have lost their lives to suicide were good people, who were in deep, deep pain. Keep speaking about mental illness and keep it out of the darkness.

Suicide is a permanent question.

Everyone needs to take control of his or her own life by making sense of it. It doesn't matter how conventional or unconventional that process is.

Being loud after drinking wine doesn't help. Being silent after drinking wine doesn't help. Nothing really ever gets solved either way.

I told her about how people in families felt left out sometimes, and how that could result in disappointment or sadness but also become something more volatile, a kind of uncontrolled fury.

Babies have the power to make grumpy people happy because they love you no matter what. Dogs are that way, too.

innuendos—and sometimes they weren't even

remember that my father was sad much of the time and that he grasped at ways of feeling better, whether through drinking or through escape. He reached out and all too often found nothing there to comfort him.