

"So when he reached up to his ear and turned off the interface for the first time since he had implanted it, Jane did not feel it as the meaningless switch-off of a trivial communications device.  She felt it as her dearest and only friend, her lover, her husband, her brother, her father, her child--all telling her, abruptly, inexplicably, that she should cease to exist."

- Orson Scott Card - Speaker for the Dead

Any moments that spoke to you particularly in literature via the emotional route of your BPD?  I also think Goethe's "Sorrows of Young Werther" reflects many BPD issues and wonder if the various attempts to diagnose Goethe as bipolar in the modern era should perhaps look more to BPD.  Romanticism is a favorite movement for me, and a few words of Byron are sometimes exactly what I need.

"*‘Please … tame me!’ he said.

‘I would really like to,’ the little prince replied. ‘But I have very little time. I have to look for friends and there is still so much to understand.’

‘You will understand what you tame,’ said the fox. ‘People have no time to understand anything anymore. They buy things readymade at the shops. But there is no store where you can buy friendship, and so, people have no friends anymore. If you are looking for a friend, you could tame me.’"*

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - The Little Prince