Memior Quotes

“I wanted to be seen, but I didn't want to be watched.”
― Ashley C Ford, Somebody's Daughter: A Memoir

“Eventually, I had no choice but to look at loss and pain, at all the pieces of my family's story that I didn't think I could ever understand. It was this process, recognizing the pieces, struggling to put them in order, that almost destroyed me. It's also what allowed me to live again.”
― Vince Granata, Everything Is Fine

“Most likely, they were writing the same type of macho bullshit that I wrote, trying to sound tough with their words in case words were all that made it home.”
― Clint Van Winkle, Soft Spots: A Marine's Memoir of Combat and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

“I once heard a woman who'd lost her dog say that she felt as though a color were suddenly missing from her world: the dog had introduced to her field of vision some previously unavailable hue, and without the dog, that color was gone. That seemed to capture the experience of loving a dog with eminent simplicity. I'd amend it only slightly and say that if we are open to what they have to give us, dogs can introduce us to several colors, with names like wildness and nurturance and trust and joy.”
― Caroline Knapp

“During my first semester of medical school, I cannot know how the emotional difficulty of the actions we perform on our cadavers will help us prepare for the agonizing moments we will observe in the lives of the living.”
― Christine Montross

“Writing Saving My Sister was by far the most difficult yet meaningful and rewarding experience of my life,” comments
author Nicole Woodruff. “After losing my sister, Amanda, to a fentanyl overdose in June 2019, I was determined to make
her story matter and bring meaning to this horrible tragedy. So many families lose loved ones to this disease but often
suffer in silence or feel ashamed to speak up due to addiction’s stigma. My goal with this book is to reduce this stigma,
bring greater awareness to these stories, and ultimately help people in similar situations to mine know they are not
alone,” continues Woodruff.”
― Nicole Woodruff, Saving My Sister

“You might think Cult Girls would have a rather limited readership (ex-Jehovah's Witnesses) but I, who never bothered to learn anything about those strange people who rang my doorbell with "good news" loved it. Jehovah's Witnesses aside, this beautifully illustrated graphic novel pertains to any cult. Nicely and clearly written, it's a good harrowing story.”
― Trina Robbins, Women And The Comics

“disclaimer:This is a work of nonfiction, but it is also full of dreams, speculations, and shadows. Many names have been changed.”
― Nick Flynn, The Ticking Is the Bomb: A Memoir

“No matter your political affiliation, it’s an honor and a privilege to meet the sitting president of the United States. You are in the presence of someone who commands respect for taking the hardest job in the world.”
Fairy Tale Interrupted: A Memoir of Life, Love, and Loss”
― RoseMarie Trenzio

“He was a nobody. Yet and still, he held the gun and therfore all of the power.”
― Brima Lamin & Chantale Wesley-Lamin, The Walk - Memoir of a Liberian Civil War Survivor, 2016

“The receptionist is confused. "That was quick," she observes. My client booked a thirty-minute session. We used fifteen.
"He tried to slap me on the arse while I was on top," I explain, "He slapped himself on the nutsack.”
― Rayne Constantine

“For it is in suffering that one recognizes beauty.”
― Cyndi Burrough, Recognizing Beauty

“The Story Is Unbelievable but When You read it You Come to Realize That the Story Must Be True Because Nobody Can Make This Story Up”
― Gary Orleck

“We can make entire worlds and literally rewrite history through the magic of writing. We have the power to occupy the mind and I appreciate the gravity of that situation, you should also.”
― Shelley Hernandez, Take a look inside of me.: Volume 1