Fiona Maazel > Quotes

“Little moments nostalgia
does not have to extol, because they were already nice to begin with.”
― Fiona Maazel, Woke Up Lonely

“I like the way he says we and am amazed, as I often am by language as power, at the way a simple pronoun can upend a relationship.”
― Fiona Maazel, Last Last Chance

“Dear God, please take away this hurt because I cannot stand it, and I want a chance, maybe just one more chance to show up for my life and to enjoy it, even if it’s only for a day or a couple hours, I just want a chance, the same as the next guy, though I know I deserve it less.”
― Fiona Maazel, Last Last Chance

“What greater stimulus to ambition than the promise that the goals of which we dream, the nobility of spirit to which we aspire, the indwelling of gods and the radiance of their power, are but waiting to be discovered in the consciousness of man? Play the harp enough times, an angel you become. This, at any rate, is what the handbook says.”
― Fiona Maazel, Last Last Chance

“I'm tired. Being a drug addict is the hardest job I have ever had.”
― Fiona Maazel, Last Last Chance

“You couldn’t make sense of illness or pain or the long good-bye, but you would deal with it because you had no choice, which he had come to value as a spiritual condition worth pursuing.”
― Fiona Maazel, A Little More Human

“We didn't need dialogue; we had faces.' It's what Thurlow used to say on days they spent staring at their newborn. Ida on that play mat with the arches overhead, groping for toys, gumming the fur, and them on either side, on their stomachs, watching the world dilate in her eyes.”
― Fiona Maazel, Woke Up Lonely

“A terrifying moment - to be so helpless - but also transcendent, because how often does love overrun your experience of life so thoroughly that it lays waste to everything else?”
― Fiona Maazel, Woke Up Lonely