Terry Trueman > Quotes

“A big seizure just kind of grabs the inside of your skull and squeezes. It feels as if it's twisting and turning your brain all up and down and inside out. Have you ever heard a washing machine suddenly flip into that bang-bang-bang sound when it gets out of balance, or a chain saw when the chain breaks and gets caught up in the gears, or an animal like a cat, screeching in pain? Those are what seizures felt like when I was little.”
― Terry Trueman, Stuck in Neutral

“If you're being honest, you don't have to tell THE truth. Only God knows THE truth.”
― Terry Trueman

“Have talent, work hard, get lucky!”
― Terry Trueman

“Think about it: Why should we care whether what makes us happy is just an electrical impulse in our brain or something funny that we see some fool do on TV? Does it matter what makes you smile? Wouldn't you rather be happy for no reason than unhappy for good reasons?”
― Terry Trueman, Stuck in Neutral

“Don't drink; it's bad for you.”
― Terry Trueman

“my dad left my mom because of me know because i was born but because of my condition,i'm a retard knot retard”
― Terry Trueman, Stuck in Neutral

“But before either of us can speak again, I feel crackle-crackle-crackle. I can't tell what's going to happen next. My seizure begins to spin slowly through me. What will my dad do? Whatever it is, in another moment I'll be flying free. Either way, whatever he does, I'll be soaring.”
― Terry Trueman, Stuck in Neutral

“There is one final bad-news punch line to my life. This bad news is complicated, difficult to explain. In a nutshell, it’s that I am pretty sure that my dad is planning to kill me. The good news is that he’d be doing this out of his love for me. The bad news is that whatever the wonderfulness of his motives, I’ll be dead.”
― Terry Trueman, Stuck in Neutral

“thanks to all my friends at hodder-stoughton UK”
― Terry Trueman, Stuck in Neutral

“The audience begins to applaud in spite of itself. It's as if they can't stop themselves from applauding, from agreeing with something that they don't quite understand, but that makes too much sense to ignore.”
― Terry Trueman, Stuck in Neutral

“Seems to me there are a million examples of how nice or how cruel people act every moment of every day.”
― Terry Trueman, Life Happens Next: A Young Adult Novel About Finding Your Voice and Love When No One Sees Past Your Wheelchair

“I try not to spend too much time worrying about how "hard" my life is. Of course, it's kind of difficult not to think about it at least part of the time. What else is there for me to do? For the most part, though, I just live and try not to bitch to myself too much about the bad-news stuff of my life. Bitching doesn't change anything.”
― Terry Trueman, Stuck in Neutral