Melanie Conklin > Quotes

“It doesn't matter what someone else thinks you are, Max. They can call you whatever they want, but that doesn't make it true. Even the one-thousandth time they say it, it still won't be true. You get to define yourself.”
― Melanie Conklin, A Perfect Mistake

“You can't make yourself responsible for other people's choices.”
― Melanie Conklin, A Perfect Mistake

“Either you can be the guy everyone wants you to be, or you can be yourself. The difference is, that first guy’s not real. You’re real.”
― Melanie Conklin, A Perfect Mistake

“It's easy to hide from pain, but we really only start to deal with it when we let ourselves feel it.”
― Melanie Conklin, A Perfect Mistake

“Once people knew about the cancer, I wouldn't be able to stop them from talking about Val every time they saw me. And then I would stop being me, because my time was something I could only buy at home.”
― Melanie Conklin, Counting Thyme

“Just because my brain works differently doesn't mean I'm broken. I'm just me, and this is how I work, and that's okay.”
― Melanie Conklin, A Perfect Mistake

“purple in the dog food”
― Melanie Conklin, Counting Thyme

“. . . We all go in circles. How things repeat. How those patterns make us who we are. But maybe we don't have to follow those patterns. Maybe we can change them.”
― Melanie Conklin, A Perfect Mistake

“When someone tells you that your little brother might die, you're quick to agree to anything.”
― Melanie Conklin

“Pain breeds pain. Hurt causes hurt.”
― Melanie Conklin, A Perfect Mistake

“Did you hear about the woodworker who died when he fell into a vat of varnish?” He pauses for dramatic effect, hands off the steering wheel. “It was a terrible end, but a beautiful finish. Da-dun-dah!”
― Melanie Conklin, A Perfect Mistake

“Mom said fourteen wasn’t old enough to ride the subway alone.”
― Melanie Conklin, Counting Thyme