Amee Maddox > Amee's Quotes

“I think that’s the hardest thing about bipolar disorder. You don’t know if you will wake up in the morning and spike a manic episode or if you won’t want to get out bed because you’re in a depressive episode that makes you want to go back to sleep and never see the light of day again. The moment I tell someone I am bipolar, they are shocked. You know, the whole ‘I never would have known because you don’t act like it’s a thing.' It always makes me laugh. ‘What does bipolar look like to you, sir?’ - that’s what I want to say to them.”
― Emma Thomas, Live for Me

“I feel as if he is judging me, only to find I’ve fallen short of his expectations. I recognize it, because I've seen such a disappointing look before. Father’s.”
― S.G. Blaise, The Last Lumenian

“Promise me, if this is the end of us, let it be the beginning of the revolution.”
― Carl Novakovich, The Watchers: The Tomb

“What the hell, Jack? What the hell were you doing back there? Cool the hell off. You’re used to people staring. Get a grip, man. Too early to let things get to you.”
― Behcet Kaya, Body In The Woods

“It is in the healing of self-blame and judgement, that the self is liberated from the constraints of binding emotions...And you come to remember your true authentic self." © 2015 W.E. Slater”
― Wendy E. Slater, Into the Hearth, Poems-Volume 14

“From the antique Persian rugs covering the gleaming hardwood floors to the molded tin ceilings and ornate chandeliers, the house was a showstopper. Throughout its long life, no one had allowed this home to fall into disrepair. Every detail of the wainscoting, every pocket door, every window, floor tile, and bathtub was original to the house.”
― Kirsten Fullmer, Trouble on Main Street

“People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams, because they feel that they don’t deserve them, or that they’ll be unable to achieve them. We, their hearts, become fearful just thinking of loved ones who go away forever, or of moments that could have been good but weren’t, or of treasures that might have been found but were forever hidden in the sands. Because, when these things happen, we suffer terribly.”
― Paulo Coelho

“إن الحياة والموت يلتصقان ظهراً لظهر.
فمن المستحيل أن نشعر أننا أحياء إذا لم نفكر أيضاً بأننا نموت يوماً، كما أننا لا نستطيع التفكير بموتنا، دون أن نحس، وفي اللحظة نفسها بالمعجزة الغريبة، معجزة كوننا على قيد الحياة
لم أنتبه إلا الآن، إلى أي مدى هي الحياة جميلة ”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

“To be half of one can only be a torment when the other half is gone.”
― Richard Matheson, What Dreams May Come

“All that has been said of the importance of individuality of character, and diversity in opinions and
modes of conduct, involves, as of the same unspeakable importance, diversity of education. A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another: and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the predominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, a priesthood, an aristocracy, or the majority of the existing generation; in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by natural tendency to one over the body. An education established and
controlled by the State should only exist, if it exist at all, as one among
many competing experiments, carried on for the purpose of example and stimulus, to keep the others up to a certain standard of excellence.”
― John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

“Like many men and women who make egregious and irretrievable mistakes with their own children, she would redeem herself by becoming the perfect grandmother.”
― Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides

“She lowers the volume of this Safe and Top-Trending song titled... "Love Ain’t No Thang But a Chicken Wang.” ”
― Adam Scott Huerta, Motive Black

“Winston, how’s she going b’y?” asked Herb in the familiar Newfoundland greeting.
Windflower gave the appropriate response. “She’s going good, b’y.”
― Mike Martin, Too Close For Comfort

“Eliza answered, “My Lady, that was Sir Roger Mortimer!”
― Michael G. Kramer, Isabella Warrior Queen

“The future is 'now'—a realisation that fills my heart with love, dissolving all meaningless thoughts.”
― Raz Mihal, Just Love Her

“The early women rise before I do. Their lamps splinter the gloom of the kitchens. They chatter in whispers as they brew tea for the cooks. Windows are open to counter the heat of the ovens. Outside, the sky is as black as my soul.”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

“No one can make you feel inferior unless you allow them to.”
― Sherman Kennon

“Just when normal life felt almost possible--when the world held some kind of order, meaning, even loveliness (prismatic spray of light through an icicle; the stillness of a sunrise), some small thing would go awry and the veil of optimism was torn away, the barren world revealed. They learned, somehow, to wait those times out. There was no cure, no answer, no reparation.”
― David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

“I don't mind shaking hands with a human being, are you one?”
― Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley

“nationalism and religion as the unholy spouses from whose fetid conjugal bed nothing but evil can crawl forth,”
― Louis de Bernières, Birds Without Wings

“For ever the world of Fairy drifts further from the world in which the Christ holds sway. I have no quarrel with the Christ, only with his priests, who call the Great Goddess a demon and deny that she ever held power in this world.”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon

“…there is no straightforward negotiation with a four year old…”
― John Irving, A Widow for One Year

“I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall