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

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

“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

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

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

“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

“The alchemy of shampoos and deodorants, lotions and hair products, combined with the odor of tech equipment and the buzz and flickering of the overhead lights, was unnerving.”
― Anne Frasier, The Body Counter

“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

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

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

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

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

“People were adaptable. Their brains could shift and change and tolerate the situation.”
― Anne Frasier, The Body Counter

“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

“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

“Only if you trust someone to do their job in a competent and professional way.”
― Anne Frasier, The Body Counter

“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

“Now that she was free, she marveled at how she’d lived through it, but people adapted. People were resilient. They became who they needed to be in order to survive.”
― Anne Frasier, The Body Counter

“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

“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 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

“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

“Anger gave your thoughts a solid focus, a diversion from things that were too hard to look at with unfiltered eyes.”
― Anne Frasier, The Body Counter

“spoke as if she herself felt sympathy for the victim in the house. For years she’d been kept in a box in the basement, naked, in the dark. Now that she was free, she marveled at how she’d lived through it, but people adapted. People were resilient. They became who they needed to be in order to survive. That was the takeaway. That was what she’d learned. That was what she knew. “I’m not a beggar.” The woman’s bloodshot eyes flared at the money. “I just want you to have it.” Jude didn’t drop her extended arm. “A meal on me.” The woman relented. “Who would buy that place?” she asked, tucking the money somewhere inside her clothing. “What kind of crazy person would buy that place?” “Do you have somewhere to stay tonight?” Jude asked, ignoring the question. “A shelter?” Fall in Minnesota was breathtakingly perfect, but it could snow in late September, and come November temps could drop below zero. “I have a place. How ’bout you? Ever since the blackouts, you never know. Shelters are full of people who don’t look like they should be there, but they lost their homes in the street riots and arson fires. We find places where we can.”
― Anne Frasier, The Body Counter