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  • #1
    Gillian Flynn
    “To spend a life in dreams, that sounded too lovely.”
    Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

  • #2
    Kathleen Glasgow
    “He could be anywhere.”
    Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

  • #3
    Sigmund Freud
    “we are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our body, which is doomed to decay..., from the external world which may rage against us with overwhelming and merciless force of destruction, and finally from our relations with other men... This last source is perhaps more painful to use than any other. (p77)”
    Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents

  • #4
    Kathleen Glasgow
    “Cutting is a fence you build upon your own body to keep people out but then you cry to be touched. But the fence is barbed. What then?”
    Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

  • #5
    Gillian Flynn
    “Every time people said I was pretty, I thought of everything ugly swarming beneath my clothes.”
    Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

  • #6
    Kathleen Glasgow
    “I'm so unwhole. I don't know where all the pieces of me are, how to fit them together, how to make them stick. Or if I even can.”
    Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

  • #7
    Kathleen Glasgow
    “I just want to feel better. My own body is my deepest enemy. It wants, it wants, it wants and when it does not get, it cries and cries and I punish it. How can you live in fear of your own body?”
    Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

  • #8
    Kathleen Glasgow
    “Who Knew I'd Make Her So Blue.”
    Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

  • #9
    Kathleen Glasgow
    “I need release, I need to hurt myself more than the world can hurt me, and then I can comfort myself.”
    Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

  • #10
    Kathleen Glasgow
    “...while I say sadness what I really mean is black hole inside me filled with nails and rocks and broken glass and the words I don't have anymore.
    Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

  • #11
    Kathleen Glasgow
    “Is my sadness because of him, or is my sadness because I am of him?”
    Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

  • #12
    Kathleen Glasgow
    “a story about a girl who thought a boy liked her, and maybe could save her from herself, but in the end she was just stupid, stupid because she’s a fucking freak, but if she could just make it through the night, there was going to be another chance, another day. Maybe, maybe maybe.”
    Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

  • #13
    Shannon L. Alder
    “Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn't change the heart of others-- it only changes yours.”
    Shannon Alder, 300 Questions to Ask Your Parents Before It's Too Late

  • #14
    Kathleen Glasgow
    “He's like the desert itself: it's so beautiful, it's so warm, but there are sharp edges everywhere that you have to watch out for.”
    Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

  • #15
    “Please. Please love me. Please see who I am at my most wretched and love me. Please.”
    Colubrina, Sublimation

  • #16
    Kathleen Glasgow
    “The first time I ever cut myself, the best part was after: swabbing the wound with a cotton ball, carefully drying it, inspecting it, this way and that, cradling my arm protectively against my stomach. There, there.”
    Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

  • #17
    Georges Bataille
    “No greater desire exists than a wounded person's need for another wound.”
    Georges Bataille, Guilty

  • #18
    Kathleen Glasgow
    “No one will love us. Not in a normal way. -pg 56”
    Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

  • #19
    “One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.”
    Michael J. Fox

  • #20
    Kathleen Glasgow
    “Everyone has that moment, I think, the moment when something so… momentous happens that it rips your very being into small pieces. And then you have to stop. For a long time, you gather your pieces. And it takes such a long time, not to fit them back together, but to assemble them in a new way, not necessarily a better way. More, a way you can live with until you know for certain that this piece should go there, and that one there.”
    Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

  • #21
    Ottessa Moshfegh
    “I did crave attention, but I refused to humiliate myself by asking for it.”
    Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

  • #22
    Augusten Burroughs
    “I know exactly how that is. To love somebody who doesn’t deserve it. Because they are all you have. Because any attention is better than no attention. For exactly the same reason, it is sometimes satisfying to cut yourself and bleed. On those gray days where eight in the morning looks no different from noon and nothing has happened and nothing is going to happen and you are washing a glass in the sink and it breaks-accidentally-and punctures your skin. And then there is this shocking red, the brightest thing in the day, so vibrant it buzzes, this blood of yours. That is okay sometimes because at least you know you’re alive.”
    Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors

  • #23
    Ricky Maye
    “stars are the scars of the universe”
    Ricky Maye, Barefoot Christianity

  • #24
    Ottessa Moshfegh
    “Rejection, I have found, can be the only antidote to delusion”
    Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

  • #25
    Gillian Flynn
    “Daydreams can be dangerous.”
    Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

  • #26
    Ottessa Moshfegh
    “in my frenzied state of despair, I understood: there was stability in living in the past.”
    Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

  • #27
    Gillian Flynn
    “Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom.”
    Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

  • #28
    Ottessa Moshfegh
    “I still couldn't accept that Trevor was a loser and a moron. I didn't want to believe that I could have degraded myself for someone who didn't deserve it. I was still stuck on that bit of vanity. But I was determined to sleep it away.”
    Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

  • #29
    Kathleen Glasgow
    “People aren't nice, people aren't nice, you should know that by now.”
    Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

  • #30
    Ottessa Moshfegh
    “Your problem is that you're passive. You wait around for things to change, and they never will.”
    Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation



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