Anne Frasier > Quotes

“Words are real. Even if you can't see them, or hold them. Once you send them out in the world, they have power. Never speak words you don't mean.”
― Anne Frasier, Play Dead

“Socrates said the perfect society would be based on a great lie. People would be told that lie from the cradle, and they would believe it, because human beings need to make order out of chaos.”
― Anne Frasier, Hush

“He expected too much from people, that was the problem, Ethan thought. He expected too much from life.”
― Anne Frasier, Hush

“But sometimes the monster in the closet was really just a worthless clown in a coma.”
― Anne Frasier, Stay Dead

“Maybe that’s what coffee shops sold. The idea that everything was okay, at least here, in this moment.”
― Anne Frasier, The Body Reader

“Music is art, and art is an integral part of the human experience.”
― Anne Frasier, Hush

“I wonder how much of a person is simply fabricated by others,” she said. “And think about this: None of us see the same person in the exact same way. We bring ourselves into the equation. So an individual is never really an individual.” “This might be a little too deep for a hangover. Are you saying we’re not only a product of our environment; we’re also informed by accurate and inaccurate observations by others? That makes my head hurt even more.” “One thing I know, before my capture I saw myself through everybody else’s eyes, if that makes any sense. Every single person I engaged with throughout the day. I read their reaction to me and saw what they saw, accurate or inaccurate. That hasn’t happened since my escape. I don’t know if this new me is normal or abnormal, but that skewed reflection no longer exists. It should feel good, but it’s like something is gone.” You become the person he sees.”
― Anne Frasier, The Body Reader

“Because the passage of time becomes molasses when dealing with the death of a loved one. A month. A year. Two years. All the same.”
― Anne Frasier, Stay Dead

“People were always trying to fix the past. They deliberately, often unconsciously, relived events similar to something that had gone wrong.”
― Anne Frasier, Stay Dead

“This was how she coped, by calming her mind and removing all wants.”
― Anne Frasier, The Body Keeper

“I wonder how much of a person is simply fabricated by others,” she said. “And think about this: None of us see the same person in the exact same way. We bring ourselves into the equation. So an individual is never really an individual.”
― Anne Frasier, The Body Reader

“Unless a person’s memory could be erased, there were no fresh starts, only progression. Even if you burned down a house where bad things had happened, the house would still be there in your mind, regardless.”
― Anne Frasier, Find Me

“haboobs, those nasty walls of sand and dust that moved in like dense clouds, making travel, and even breathing, near impossible.”
― Anne Frasier, Find Me

“She’s not only merely dead—she’s really most sincerely dead.”
― Anne Frasier, Play Dead

“the brain often rejected logic in favor of desire. “Have”
― Anne Frasier, The Body Reader

“I said I was sorry.” “Words are real. Even if you can’t see them, or hold them. Once you send them out in the world, they have power. Never speak words you don’t mean.” Gould”
― Anne Frasier, Play Dead

“I wonder why we always feel disdain for our old selves...We should feel thankful. We should appreciate the people we used to be rather than being ashamed of them.”
― Anne Frasier, The Body Reader

“Forgot my coffee on my desk.” True, but an excuse all the same. Her next choice would be PMS, but PMS got a bad rap. Her theory about PMS was that it simply lifted the veil. It wasn’t always pleasant to see the world so clearly, so it only happened once a month.”
― Anne Frasier, Pretty Dead

“I wonder why we always feel disdain for our old selves,” Uriah said. “We should feel thankful. We should appreciate the people we used to be rather than being ashamed of them.”
― Anne Frasier, The Body Reader

“This was what it was about. These moments that crept up on you out of nowhere and whispered mysterious, unformed promises that made you want to live for something you didn’t even know existed.”
― Anne Frasier, Pale Immortal

“He could really fool the shit out of himself. A guy had to be careful about creating his own reality. Because you could get lost in it, so lost that it was hard to get back to the real world.”
― Anne Frasier, Play Dead

“Words are real. Even if you can’t see them, or hold them. Once you send them out in the world, they have power. Never speak words you don’t mean.”
― Anne Frasier, Play Dead

“An idea, a notion, love, hate, formed in childhood, was hard to redirect because it was so ingrained and so accepted as normal.”
― Anne Frasier, Find Me

“She hadn’t known she was a cat person”
― Anne Frasier, Hush

“Some things I need to deal with, that’s all.” “Such as…?” She wanted to keep the moment of frankness and camaraderie going. “Nothing I want to talk about.” Slam. Oh, forget it. If she was from Venus, Gould was from a planet in a galaxy that hadn’t yet been discovered. “I need food,” she announced with a conscious effort to change the subject. She was only thirty-one, but lately she’d noticed her brain didn’t function as well on an empty stomach. “Swing by a drive-through on the way back to Police Headquarters,”
― Anne Frasier, Play Dead

“Because she’d come to find out that no matter how good a person’s intentions, it was impossible to forge deep relationships when you harbored secrets that could never be told.”
― Anne Frasier, Hush

“First the monsters come, then the indifference.”
― Anne Frasier, Find Me

“Mojave Desert was the biggest killing field in the United States.”
― Anne Frasier, Find Me

“I’m not someone who wakes up very fast. Explorer Roald Amundsen called it morning peevishness.”
― Anne Frasier, The Body Reader

“his chest rising and falling as his body took shallow breaths. IV bag on a rack, urine bag on the side of the bed. He was ten years older than Elise, but he looked at least sixty now, his skin gray and dehydrated. He looked like a corpse. “I’ve seen a lot of dead bodies in”
― Anne Frasier, Stay Dead