Lisa Keeble > Quotes

“I understood loving deeply because I had experienced it but, only once in my, almost, sixty years of life. It was, undoubtedly, an intense experience, all-consuming and, in some ways, excruciating. You become immersed in a typhoon of passion, become obsessed with the object of your love, want to be with them to the exclusion of all others. Nothing is more joyful than their approval and nothing more painful that their disapproval. They become as vital to you as the air you breath. It is intoxicating, like nothing else. There is no greater feeling than loving and being loved with deep intensity.”
― Lisa Keeble, NO FILTER: Dangerous Conversations

“Yes, Santu, I do have scars because I opened myself up to pain. You talk about courage, but do you understand the courage it takes to be completely vulnerable? Can you begin to comprehend what it is like to divest yourself of your emotional armour and lay your heart bare?”
― Lisa Keeble, NO FILTER: Dangerous Conversations

“The fact that you can detect my scent of grief tells me that you can recognize that foul odour for what it is. You are not immune to pain nor its effects. I wonder, is your anger nothing more than a cloak for your own grief? Am I, by releasing that odour, without fear that it will pervade the nostrils of another, not more honest than one who would seek to disguise it with the righteous perfume of anger?!”
― Lisa Keeble, NO FILTER: Dangerous Conversations

“My anger is not the smell of a rotting corpse; it's the smell of flesh cauterised with a red-hot iron and forcibly closed up. It's acidic, disturbing, but it doesn't need to be understood. It's there to remind me that pain can be transformed into power. But where some people get naked, I've chosen to put on a suit of armour. Maybe that's the real choice, to fall down, then get up again and finally stand up roaring.”
― Lisa Keeble, NO FILTER: Dangerous Conversations

“In silence, I don't need armour. Silence is a form of elegance, the art and manner of not imposing one's chaos on others, saying, ‘I am here, but I am not invading your space.’ In this hysterical world, saturated with notification sounds, punchlines and opinions spewed out every second, silence is almost a political act, a way of refusing the obligation to perform.”
― Lisa Keeble, NO FILTER: Dangerous Conversations