Rachel Bloom > Quotes

“My mama always compared bad thoughts to a bird in a barn. If a bird flies into the barn, you can acknowledge that there’s a bird in the barn, but you don’t have to suddenly make a nest for it. Just let the bird fly in and it’ll eventually fly out.” Which is, in essence, cognitive behavioral therapy”
― Rachel Bloom, I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are

“Whimsy has always been a serious business for me.”
― Rachel Bloom, I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are

“I am a theatre kid. That means I'm desperate to be the best, desperate to please, desperate to never let anybody down. There is no room for failure, because failure equals weakness, which equals death.”
― Rachel Bloom, I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are: Essays and Other Stuff

“My mama always compared bad thoughts to a bird in a barn. If a bird flies into the barn, you can acknowledge that there’s a bird in the barn, but you don’t have to suddenly make a nest for it. Just let the bird fly in and it’ll eventually fly out.”
― Rachel Bloom, I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are

“Depression, for instance, doesn’t feel like this sterile hospital waiting room word: depression. It feels like my insides are turning gray, which makes the trees turn gray, which makes all life turn gray, which is the color we all turn eventually because everything leads to nothingness.”
― Rachel Bloom, I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are

“The thing I loved most about theatre was that being a theatre kid was an easy explanation for the reason I didn't fit in.”
― Rachel Bloom, I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are: Essays and Other Stuff

“RUFF! RUFF! RUFF! THERE’S A FUCKING SQUIRREL OUTSIDE! A FUCKING USELESS SQUIRREL! I WILL RIP OUT YOUR SPLEEN AND FORCE-FEED IT TO YOUR CHILDREN YOU AMPLE-BALLED FUCKING MOTHERFUCKER GET THE FUCK AWAY FROM MY HOUSE AND MY FAMILY!”
― Rachel Bloom, I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are