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“Life is messy no matter who is living it.”
― Christina Applegate, You With the Sad Eyes: A Memoir

“Here’s to the tears of friendship. May they crystallize as they fall and be worn as gems in the memory of those we love.”
― Christina Applegate, You With the Sad Eyes: A Memoir

“I was constantly in conflict with men who didn’t call me, who played games, who shifted their affections and ignored me. Partly this is because we were all so young, of course, but I also think I was fatally attracted to men who were troubled and selfish and self-centered. (This would come to be very true the older I got.) And somehow, I’d allied my self-worth and my disgust for my own body with the fluctuating attentions of young men who were unserious about relationships, if they thought about them at all. What I desperately wanted was control, and that control was often most fervently needed when I came up against cruel behavior.”
― Christina Applegate, You With the Sad Eyes: A Memoir

“Just because life has sometimes been tough - and maybe at certain points it even felt impossible -that doesn't mean we have to wallow in the darkness or be stymied by our histories. I'm here to tell you that despite how dark it gets, there's a lot to gain from mining one's past for meaning,”
― Christina Applegate, You With the Sad Eyes

“We help people by radical, thoughtful honesty.”
― Christina Applegate, You With the Sad Eyes: A Memoir

“Over and over, I’ve picked men who didn’t treat me very well because I lacked the kind of self-worth that denies such men any kind of sway or power. All too often a small voice in me agreed with them that I wasn’t worth the love I craved. I stayed longer than I should have, and damage begat damage begat damage, until now here I am, lesions pulsing on my brain like broken stoplights. No one should shame a woman for staying in a terrible situation like the one I faced. Because when we’re in it, we really don’t know what to do. We’re scared. There should be no shame in staying—please: we are already too hard on ourselves—but there is no survival in it either.”
― Christina Applegate, You With the Sad Eyes: A Memoir

“I still found myself worrying about his feelings more than my own, a fatal flaw that I carry with me to this day.”
― Christina Applegate, You With the Sad Eyes: A Memoir

“I want to throw up when I think of the pictures that are out there of me. I look sad and embarrassed. Because all I can think is, Everyone is staring. Once people stared at my boobs; then they stared at my broken foot. But now I knew they were staring not only because I was disabled; they were staring because I was fat, forever an unacceptable fate for women in Hollywood.”
― Christina Applegate, You With the Sad Eyes: A Memoir

“As you may be catching on”
― Christina Applegate, You With the Sad Eyes: A Memoir

“When your physical situation deteriorates”
― Christina Applegate, You With the Sad Eyes: A Memoir

“Just because life has sometimes been tough - and maybe at certain points it even felt impossible -that doesn't mean we have to wallow in the darkness or be stymied by our histories. I'm here to tell you that despite how dark it gets, theres a lot to gain from mining one's past for meaning.”
― Christina Applegate, You With The Sad Eyes: A Memoir

“My mind reels at this. To understand that the very things I survived could possibly chase me down and ravage my body with MS leaves me breathless with rage. I have fought my entire life to create peace for myself in the face of what happened to me as a child, only for that survival instinct to be rendered moot by damage to my telomeres.”
― Christina Applegate, You With the Sad Eyes: A Memoir

“As I think you can tell by now, I am a big disavower of myself. I wonder how my life would have gone if that hadn’t been the case. I guess I’ll never know, but I like to think there’s an alternate me somewhere unburdened by this self-doubt.”
― Christina Applegate, You With the Sad Eyes: A Memoir

“All this has left me unable to be polite anymore—it’s boring and it takes too much energy. Being kind and loving and nurturing is beautiful, but to be polite is almost to lie. To be respectful is important, but there’s something about that sweet politeness demanded of women that stinks of faking our true feelings.”
― Christina Applegate, You With the Sad Eyes: A Memoir

“This is the curse and the power of women: we can find forgiveness even in a place of irredeemable violence.”
― Christina Applegate, You With the Sad Eyes: A Memoir

“I’ve always felt like the plus-one in life—not the one invited, but the one who is brought along to make up the numbers. I’ve never really felt I belong anywhere.”
― Christina Applegate, You With the Sad Eyes: A Memoir

“When your physical situation deteriorates, and your life shrinks to the size of a California king, suddenly all the things you thought were important shift, too. The truth clarifies, like a camera lens slowly focusing.”
― Christina Applegate, You With the Sad Eyes: A Memoir

“The question of intention has, in recent years, come to haunt me. Because the universe doesn’t know your intention—it only knows where your attention is. And where has my attention always been? The negative. Have I brought all this on myself ? Have I created all of this? Have I been walking around expecting the worst all the time, only to be proven right over and over again because the universe answered my energy?”
― Christina Applegate, You With the Sad Eyes: A Memoir

“his lack of care physically and emotionally.”
― Christina Applegate, You With the Sad Eyes: A Memoir