We all have our fictions, little lies we tell ourselves to keep going from one day to the next. — Ilsa J. Bick Copy Share Image
She's got the kind of ethereal, unselfconscious beauty some young girls possess that breaks your heart. Or theirs. — Ilsa J. Bick Copy Share Image
But sticking to rules just because they're there does not make them right. You need to learn when the rules should be broken. — Ilsa J. Bick Copy Share Image
“...she said all writers were prima donnas, drunks, social misfits, pompous, or depressed. Brilliant, maybe, but completely crazy.” — Ilsa J. Bick Copy Share Image
“Thinking about all that was exhausting. Despite the hours I‘d spent getting shrink-wrapped, I still wasn‘t sold that talking did a whole heck of… — Ilsa J. Bick Copy Share Image
“What you couldn't see and only imagined was always scarier than what was real.” — Ilsa J. Bick Copy Share Image
“I´d never heard a man cry before, Bob, but...it´s awful. (...) I think some man aren´t used to it and don´t know what to… — Ilsa J. Bick Copy Share Image
Everybody breaks sooner or later, Bob. Anyone can drown. Sometimes you see it. Most often, you don’t because the body protects and the skin… — Ilsa J. Bick Copy Share Image
“What about study hall? Shouldn't I go to the library? "What for, Ms. Lord?" Mr. anderson said. "You're with me” — Ilsa J. Bick Copy Share Image
As a doc, though, I've seen what happens when people are under a lot of stress. Doesn't always bring out their best. When people are scared, they get angry. They'll do things they never thought they would. They'll bargain and compromise in order to survive; they'll chase after miracle cures and believe just about anything so long as it gives… — Ilsa J. Bick Copy Share
“It was that stages-of-anger thing. I was shocked and then I got pissed and then I fought like hell … and then I went… — Ilsa J. Bick Copy Share Image
