Then I repeated these words to my spirits: 'Leave me be; give me peace; and let me do the work of my life. I will never forget you.' Something about that incantation was particularly appealing to me. 'I will never forget you'— as though one had to address the pride of the spirits, as though one wanted them to feel good about being exorcised.

The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression (ed. Simon and Schuster, 2014) - ISBN: 9781451611038