Todd Mitchell > Quotes

“It was the people who tried to seem normal all the time who were really messed up”
― Todd Mitchell, The Secret to Lying

“Most people would call me incompetent, clumsy, flawed..."

"A pearl is a flaw. A diamond is an accident of nature. In all of creation, there's nothing more precious than the unexpected deviation.”
― Todd Mitchell, A Flight of Angels

“ghost44: It's only when it's dark out that we can see the stars shine.”
― Todd Mitchell, The Secret to Lying

“In order to know that you're dead, you have to be conscious. . . but if you're conscious, then you're not dead. the only thing you can know is being alive, so that's eternity.”
― Todd Mitchell, The Secret to Lying

“ghost44: And if the person doesn't reach back?
johnnyrotten: Then they don't reach back. Only you have to believe they will, or you're not really reaching.”
― Todd Mitchell, The Secret to Lying

“That's the gap," I said . Then I held out my hand and reached across.

Ellie reached back, wrapping her slender fingers around mine. "So are you disappointed that I'm not the perfect girl you thought I was?"

"No. I like you much better now - bed-head and all.”
― Todd Mitchell, The Secret to Lying

“There's just this empty shell, pretending to be human."

"That's not true." I wished she could see herself the way I saw her- not some cold, distant model, but the girl who'd IM'd me and kept me from being alone. You're the most sincere, passionate, real person I've ever met."

"I don't think that person exists anymore"

"She does," I said. "I'm talking to her”
― Todd Mitchell, The Secret to Lying

“And because a human heart is flawed, her heart moved on.

But an angel's heart is an entirely different thing. Once it loves someone it never stops.”
― Todd Mitchell, A Flight of Angels

“ghost44: Guess you don't think I'm Jessica Keen anymore.
johnnyrotten: No. Definitely not.
ghost44: What makes you so sure?
johnnyrotten: Because the only time I don't get that empty feeling is when I'm messaging you.”
― Todd Mitchell, The Secret to Lying

“the best way to succeed is to keep creating. Which is why it can be problematic to only hear commercially successful people talk about their creative journeys. Usually in such “success stories” the most important part of the story is something that the teller, by the very nature of their success, is unqualified to address: how to keep going when success doesn’t come.”
― Todd Mitchell, Breakthrough: How to Overcome Doubt, Fear and Resistance to Be Your Ultimate Creative Self