A.D. Elliott > A.D.'s Quotes

“Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.”
― Frida Kahlo

“Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.”
― Frida Kahlo, The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait

“Moskowitz defined chronic pain as “learned pain.” Chronic pain not only indicates illness; it is itself an illness. The body’s alarm system is stuck in the “on” position, because the person has been unable to remedy the cause of an acute pain, and the central nervous system has become damaged.”
― Norman Doidge, The Brain's Way of Healing: Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity

“Their suffering essentially relates to a terrifying and painful past that haunts them.”
― Onno van der Hart, The Haunted Self: Structural Dissociation and the Treatment of Chronic Traumatization

“emotional insult is processed in exactly the same way in the brain as a physical insult.”
― David Hascom, Back in Control: A Spine Surgeon's Roadmap Out of Chronic Pain

“If a situation is bad, it’s bad. Pretending otherwise does not help. The”
― David Hascom, Back in Control: A Spine Surgeon's Roadmap Out of Chronic Pain

“it is the breadth, flexibility, and meaningfulness of our roles and behaviors that defines health. Good health does not mean ease.”
― JoAnne C. Dahl, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Chronic Pain

“You are not responsible for your pain. You are responsible for managing it, controlling it, minimising it.”
― Niall Finn, Staying Sane with Chronic pain

“There are always places to go.”
― Emma Cline, The Girls

“The question is, what color will everything be at that moment when I come for you? What will the sky be saying? Personally,”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“Envy is the religion of the mediocre.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“Everything in life is nonsense. It’s just a question of perspective.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

“I don’t trust people who say they have a lot of friends. It’s a sure sign that they don’t really know anyone.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

“All money is dirty. If it were clean nobody would want it.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

“Crazy is safer when it goes unrecorded.”
― Stephen King, The Bazaar of Bad Dreams

“Hard to put things right. You don’t often get that chance. Sometimes all you can do is not get caught.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“Do NOT die while wearing cheap shoes.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Damned

“Semantics and labels could drive you crazy.”
― Bob Dylan, Chronicles: Volume One

“Conceit is not necessarily a disease. It’s more of a weakness.”
― Bob Dylan, Chronicles: Volume One

“Who knows that about anybody?”
― George Eliot, Daniel Deronda

“Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it’s their kryptonite.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only when their tormentors suffer.”
― Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption

“Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen.”
― Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption

“There is certainly a satisfaction and dignity to be gained in coming to terms with the mistakes one has made in the course of one’s life”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World

“A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
enough money within her control to move out
and rent a place of her own even if she never wants
to or needs to...
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
something perfect to wear if the employer or date of her
dreams wants to see her in an hour...
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ...
a youth she's content to leave behind....
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
a past juicy enough that she's looking forward to
retelling it in her old age....
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE .....
a set of screwdrivers, a cordless drill, and a black
lace bra...
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
one friend who always makes her laugh... and one who
lets her cry...
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
a good piece of furniture not previously owned by anyone
else in her family...
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
eight matching plates, wine glasses with stems, and a
recipe for a meal that will make her guests feel honored...
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
a feeling of control over her destiny...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
how to fall in love without losing herself..
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
HOW TO QUIT A JOB,
BREAK UP WITH A LOVER,
AND CONFRONT A FRIEND WITHOUT RUINING THE FRIENDSHIP...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
when to try harder... and WHEN TO WALK AWAY...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
that she can't change the length of her calves,
the width of her hips, or the nature of her parents..
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
that her childhood may not have been perfect...but it's over...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
what she would and wouldn't do for love or more...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
how to live alone... even if she doesn't like it...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
whom she can trust,
whom she can't,
and why she shouldn't
take it personally...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
where to go...
be it to her best friend's kitchen table...
or a charming inn in the woods...
when her soul needs soothing...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
what she can and can't accomplish in a day...
a month...and a year...”
― Pamela Redmond Satran

“One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.”
― Antonio Porchia

“We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won't do harm - yes, choose a place where you won't do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

“Anderson’s words hang in the air the whole way home.
Kate, I like him. I think I really, really like him.
I swear, every friend bone in my body is screaming for me to suck the tension out of this situation. It would be incredibly easy. I could do it in one sentence.
“Andy,” I say softly.
Andy, this Matt thing—you should go for it.
I could tell him I’m not interested in Matt. I could offer to be Andy’s wingwoman. I mean, I can’t make Matt Olsson like boys if he doesn’t, but at least it could stop feeling like a competition. Everything could just be normal. Like a normal crush and a normal lovesick Andy and a normal best friend Kate.
The only problem is, I don’t feel normal. Not about Matt.
“I think I like him, too,” I say. I barely recognize my own voice. It’s soft but certain. Like maybe my voice knew how I felt before my brain did. “I really like him.”
― Becky Albertalli

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
― Mark Twain