N.A. Cooper > Quotes

“And with the passing of time came the passing of options, the dwindling of any life I could have built on my own. A silent but dangerous contentment began to settle, an acceptance, rotting away like a disease.”
― N.A. Cooper, Ripple Effect

“She’s wearing a red dress, inappropriately revealing. Her clothes always seem like a disguise, an attempt at masking her true identity – her self-loathing and low self-esteem. Ironically, this is all I see, and I can’t help but feel hopelessly sorry for her.”
― N.A. Cooper, Ripple Effect

“Why is it always the case; you have to summon the most strength when you feel at your weakest? It seems so profoundly unfair; a fundamental flaw in mankind.”
― N.A. Cooper, Ripple Effect

“It’s funny how a person’s mood can consume everything around them, even poison your own state of mind, as though the darkness is somehow contagious; you don’t need to be in the same room – sometimes not even the same house – when you know the very worst of someone has surfaced, you get sucked into the gloom. A black hole.”
― N.A. Cooper, Ripple Effect

“It never occurred to me then that a prison may be one of your own making – one you will never escape.”
― N.A. Cooper, Ripple Effect

“... you can never judge a man by how he acts at his best. You have to see him at his worst; at his weakest. You have to watch him try to overcome adversity, then you’ll see him for who he really is.”
― N.A. Cooper, Ripple Effect