Nicola > Nicola's Quotes

“Inspiration comes in the middle of the night when you should be doing homework.”
― Evanescence

“Make tea not war”
― Nicola Ward

“I've got a bad case of the 3:00 am guilts - you know, when you lie in bed awake and replay all those things you didn't do right? Because, as we all know, nothing solves insomnia like a nice warm glass of regret, depression and self-loathing.”
― D.D. Barant, Dying Bites

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“I think many people kill themselves simply to stop the debate about whether they will or they won't.”
― Susanna Kaysen

“How you do you leave the past behind when it keeps finding ways to get to your heart?
It reaches way down deep and tears you up till you're torn apart.”
― Jonathan Larson

“The tick-tick-booms are softer now. I can barely hear them, and I think if I play loud enough, I can drown them out completely.”
― Jonathan Larson

“Thus it is that no cruelty whatsoever passes by without impact. Thus it is that we always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

“I once had a patient who used to practice the most horrible tortures on himself, and when I asked him why he did such things, he said, 'Why, before the world does them.' I asked him then, 'Why not wait and see what the world will do?' and he said, 'Don't you see? It always come at last, but this way at least I am master of my own destruction.”
― Joanne Greenberg, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

“There is nothing that you can do to me that my own craziness doesn't do to me smarter and faster and better.”
― Joanne Greenberg, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

“The sick are all so afraid of their own uncontrollable power! Somehow they cannot believe that they are only people, holding only a human-sized anger!”
― Joanne Greenberg, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

“Later, they began to explore the secret idea that Deborah shared with all the ill—that she had infinitely more power than the ordinary person and was at the same time also his inferior.”
― Joanne Greenberg, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

“Tommy Gnosis: What is that?
Hedwig: It's what I've got to work with.”
― John Cameron Mitchell, Hedwig and the Angry Inch

“My sex change operation got botched; my guardian angel fell asleep on the watch; now all I got is a Barbie doll crotch; I've got an angry inch!”
― John Cameron Mitchell, Hedwig and the Angry Inch

“It is clear that I must find my other half. But is it a he or a she? What does this person look like? Identical to me? Or somehow complementary? Does my other half have what I don't? Did he get the looks? The luck? The love? Were we really separated forceably or did he just run off with the good stuff? Or did I? Will this person embarrass me? What about sex? Is that how we put ourselves back together again? Or can two people actually become one again?”
― John Cameron Mitchell, Hedwig and the Angry Inch

“I put on some make-up, turn on the 8-track, and I'm pulling the wig down from the shelf - suddenly I'm Miss Punk Rock Star of Stage and Screen and I ain't ever turning back!”
― John Cameron Mitchell, Hedwig and the Angry Inch

“Crazy isn't being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever.”
― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

“Louise often feels like part of her is "acting." At the same time , "there is another part 'inside' that is not connecting with the me that is talking to you," she says. When the depersonalization is at its most intense, she feels like she just doesn't exist. These experiences leave her confused about who she really is, and quite often, she feels like an "actress" or simply, "a fake.”
― Daphne Simeon, Feeling Unreal: Depersonalization Disorder and the Loss of the Self

“Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed.”
― Patricia McCormick, Cut

“But there's the beauty of life beyond the bubble. It's possible for someone to see your wicked bits and still love you.”
― Kristin Chenoweth, A Little Bit Wicked: Life, Love, and Faith in Stages

“If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy.”
― Kristin Chenoweth

“Laughter is life-giving. It makes you breathe.”
― Kristin Chenoweth

“A professionally trained actress should be a better liar, wouldn't you think? But no. I am pathetically underachieved in that area. I can think of a great lie. I'm plenty imaginative. But before the words are even out of my mouth, there's a weird tickle of unease in my armpits, a horsefly of guilt lands on the back of my neck, and before I can stop myself, that gassy little bubble of truth belches out.”
― Kristin Chenoweth, A Little Bit Wicked: Life, Love, and Faith in Stages

“When those you love die, the best you can do is honor their spirit for as long as you live. You make a commitment that you're going to take whatever lesson that person or animal was trying to teach you, and you make it true in your own life... it's a positive way to keep their spirit alive in the world, by keeping it alive in yourself.”
― Patrick Swayze, The Time of My Life

“IF YOU HAVE EVER LOOKED IN THE MIRROR
AND HATED WHAT YOUSAW,THIS BOOK
IS FOR YOU.”
― Jackie Morse Kessler, Hunger

“Shame weighs a lot more than flesh and bone.”
― Portia de Rossi, Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain

“Laters, baby.”
― E.L. James, Fifty Shades of Grey

“Sometimes we get sad about things and we don't like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes, we are sad but we really don't know why we are sad, so we say we aren't sad but we really are.”
― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

“I just don't get men. Mind you, I don't get me either.”
― Rae Earl, My Fat, Mad Teenage Diary

“I want to be loved. Oh, it's SO CORNY, isn't it?! But I just want to be loved by a bloke that loves ME! I want to feel special, you know. I almost feel guilty for feeling it.”
― Rae Earl, My Fat, Mad Teenage Diary