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“I felt so happy I could barely stay in my skin”
“This memoir is one of the most brutally honest books Ive ever read. You will grow to believe, and cheer on, this flawed hero as he gains a liberating knowledge of himself.”
“She would (if she could) put her arm around the girl she'd been and try to tell her Take it easy, but the girl would not have listened. The girl had no receptors for Take it easy. And besides, "Hey...”
“But you have to remember...that you can't run from unhappiness. You just take it with you.”
“We must define a story which encourages us to make use of the place where we live without killing it, and we must understand that the living world cannot be replicated.”
“One thing I've noticed since I quit drinking is that a person usually has two or three sets of impulses scratching away at some internal door at any given time. If you're sober--if you're alert, an...”
“We must carefully cultivate the voice that speaks to us because an internal voice is the ultimate narrator of our charming and delightful personal story or the documentarian of our tragic and disgr...”
“The ordinary stories of our ordinary lives have extraordinary gifts coded within them. . .”
“He loves me, he loves me not. How many flowers must I kill before he loves me?” ~He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not”
“One afternoon as I just gazed at the topmost branches of those immensely tall trees I began to notice that the uppermost twigs and leaves were lyrical happy dancers glad that they had been apportio...”
“Judge me if you must, but keep in mind how very little pleasure I could have possibly derived from a one-thrust sex session, a quickie in a closet, and a come-free drunken hookup. If anything, you ...”
“And it certainly wasn’t a choice without risk. But then very few worthwhile things in life are. The greater the risk, the greater the reward.”
“I learnt a lot from the simple lives our friends lived. I saw them living with so much less than we, as westerners, were used to. I couldn't even begin to imagine how to prepare a meal for four peo...”
“The harsh dimness that follows loss isn’t static, but charged with the energy of immanent change. Hurt, I was left with a choice: wallow and stay in the dark, or seek light and fight to reach it. T...”
“… that sour blend of loneliness and lust for recognition, shyness and extravagance, deep insecurity and self-intoxicated egomania, that drives poets and writers out of their rooms to seek each othe...”
“I think each family has a funhouse logic all its own, and in that distortion,in that delusion, all behavior can seem both perfectly normal and crazy.”
“There is a cost to loving anything, or anyone. No one tells you that when you are young.”
“My mother taught me that an important word in any language is while. while one thing is happening so is another. While someone is in darkness another is in daylight.While person dies another is born.”
“Ignore the misery. Custom invites you to ignore the misery."SHOW YOUR TONGUE”
“I just want to see places – something inside me just makes me keep moving.”
