Julie Metz > Quotes

“She was my friend and I loved her and relied on her, even though there were days when her moodiness and fragility frightened me, because they reminded me of my own tenuous grasp on life.”
― Julie Metz, Perfection: A Memoir of Betrayal and Renewal

“At some point, I had to start laughing, because I was all wrung out from crying.”
― Julie Metz, Perfection: A Memoir of Betrayal and Renewal

“Relax. You are beautiful, and everyone wants some of that beauty.”
― Julie Metz, Perfection: A Memoir of Betrayal and Renewal

“Forgiveness is a wonderful thing, the only truth that saves us from eating ourselves alive and causing damage to everyone we love. I continue to work on forgiveness. I do, not, however wish to forget any of this.”
― Julie Metz, Perfection: A Memoir of Betrayal and Renewal

“Hypocrisy has its own elegant symmetry.”
― Julie Metz, Perfection: A Memoir of Betrayal and Renewal

“I learned that day that there is no more lonely state than being in a lonely marriage.”
― Julie Metz, Perfection: A Memoir of Betrayal and Renewal

“I had hoped that the rest of the world would stand still while I got myself together again, but Chaos and Tragedy had marched into other lives close to mine as well.”
― Julie Metz, Perfection: A Memoir of Betrayal and Renewal

“How do we know we're not people in a movie?' she asked.

I looked at her not knowing how to reply.

Mama, [...] how do we know that things are real?'

Great. Now we have a junior existentialist in the house.

Well, we don't know. We just have to hope that what we think is real is real.'

But how do we know?' she asked, insistently.

Ah, a scientist, who wants empirical evidence.

We don't know. We just have to hope.'

Mama, how do we know things aren't a dream? You know, how sometimes life feels like a dream? Do you ever feel that way?'

Yes, sweetie, I feel that way all the time.”
― Julie Metz

“She was so like a sister that I forgot we'd chosen each other as friends.”
― Julie Metz, Perfection: A Memoir of Betrayal and Renewal

“I want a sword to slit her end to end and then, with one hundred more cuts, dice her body into small pieces and leave the bloodied,quivering remains of skin, muscle, and soulless guts on her front lawn, arranged in a gruesome scarlet letter.”
― Julie Metz

“I am no fan of plane travel. I have always been too skeptical of the physics of the phenomenon to ever be truly comfortable in an airplane.”
― Julie Metz, Perfection: A Memoir of Betrayal and Renewal

“Forgiveness is a wonderful thing, the only truth that saves us from eating ourselves alive and causing damage to everyone we love.”
― Julie Metz, Perfection: A Memoir of Betrayal and Renewal