1. "The only truth was that nothing was certain, and that life itself was a kind of illness to be endured."Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family - Robert Kolker
2. "Perhaps happiness is always to be found in the journey uphill, not in the fleeting satisfaction awaiting at the next peak."Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family - Robert Kolker
3. "Every year brought a new theory, a new treatment, a new cause of schizophrenia."Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family - Robert Kolker
4. "The capacity to hold two conflicting ideas in their minds, to go through life without a clear understanding of what was happening, added to their stress and worsened their condition."Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family - Robert Kolker
5. "Sometimes the human mind resists learning about itself."Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family - Robert Kolker
6. "In the best families, there’s still room for the worst things to happen."Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family - Robert Kolker
7. "Institutionalization was a way of life in the Galvin family."Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family - Robert Kolker
8. "Living with mental illness is always going to be a journey uphill."Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family - Robert Kolker
9. "There was a brokenness in the Galvin family, and it was a brokenness that could not be fixed, only acknowledged."Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family - Robert Kolker
10. "The Galvins weren’t just any family. They were the one psychiatrists had been waiting for."Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family - Robert Kolker