Mena Suvari > Quotes

“I was meant to live, to be here, to be alive—and loved. The Universe was showing me how much it loved me. I just had to quit doubting it, quit fighting it, and learn how to love myself.”
― Mena Suvari, The Great Peace: A Memoir

“Deep down, I knew better. But I didn’t think I had any alternatives or places to go.”
― Mena Suvari, The Great Peace: A Memoir

“I thought I could, and should, suffer in silence. This was obviously my fate. I prayed someone would throw me a lifeline. I was ready every single day to be rescued. It never happened.”
― Mena Suvari, The Great Peace: A Memoir

“Trauma and the cocktail created from it is a tricky thing. I tried to deny or forget about the thing that caused it and yet kept repeating it. Once again, I’d fallen into the same beginning, middle, and end of a story”
― Mena Suvari, The Great Peace: A Memoir

“she was looking for permission. she just needed to be enough.”
― Mena Suvari, The Great Peace: A Memoir

“That book and those writings, they were such a desperate plea to the world, to the universe, to anyone who might throw me a lifeline. I never expected I would be the one to respond”
― Mena Suvari, The Great Peace: A Memoir

“needed to stop constantly racing toward finding something that I thought would fit perfectly, and instead learn I could bring all the love I needed into my own life without anyone else doing it for me.”
― Mena Suvari, The Great Peace: A Memoir

“If you aren’t happy, change the people around you and the way you live your life.”
― Mena Suvari, The Great Peace: A Memoir