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> [“Because if you can just hold off the moment when you must confront reality, time stands still and you can keep pretending that life will continue as you´ve known it: that nothing-not even something as wonderful and as terrible as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ilsa-j-bick/because-if-you-can-just-hold-off-the-moment-when-you-must-confront/)

[Ilsa J. Bick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ilsa-j-bick/)

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## More by Ilsa J. Bick

> [She's got the kind of ethereal, unselfconscious beauty some young girls possess that breaks your heart. Or theirs.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ilsa-j-bick/she-s-got-the-kind-of-ethereal-unselfconscious-beauty-some-young/)

[Ilsa J. Bick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ilsa-j-bick/)

> [But sticking to rules just because they're there does not make them right. You need to learn when the rules should be broken.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ilsa-j-bick/but-sticking-to-rules-just-because-they-re-there-does-not-make-them/)

[Ilsa J. Bick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ilsa-j-bick/)

> [“...she said all writers were prima donnas, drunks, social misfits, pompous, or depressed. Brilliant, maybe, but completely crazy.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ilsa-j-bick/she-said-all-writers-were-prima-donnas-drunks-social-misfits-pompous/)

[Ilsa J. Bick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ilsa-j-bick/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ilsa-j-bick/thinking-about-all-that-was-exhausting-despite-the-hours-i-d-spent/)

[Ilsa J. Bick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ilsa-j-bick/)

> [“What you couldn't see and only imagined was always scarier than what was real.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ilsa-j-bick/what-you-couldn-t-see-and-only-imagined-was-always-scarier-than-what/)

[Ilsa J. Bick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ilsa-j-bick/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ilsa-j-bick/i-d-never-heard-a-man-cry-before-bob-but-it-s-awful-i-think-some-man/)

[Ilsa J. Bick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ilsa-j-bick/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ilsa-j-bick/everybody-breaks-sooner-or-later-bob-anyone-can-drown-sometimes-you/)

[Ilsa J. Bick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ilsa-j-bick/)

> [“What about study hall? Shouldn't I go to the library? "What for, Ms. Lord?" Mr. anderson said. "You're with me”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ilsa-j-bick/what-about-study-hall-shouldn-t-i-go-to-the-library-what-for-ms-lord/)

[Ilsa J. Bick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ilsa-j-bick/)

> [“Monster or not, he was risking his neck to save her.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ilsa-j-bick/monster-or-not-he-was-risking-his-neck-to-save-her/)

[Ilsa J. Bick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ilsa-j-bick/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ilsa-j-bick/as-a-doc-though-i-ve-seen-what-happens-when-people-are-under-a-lot-of/)

[Ilsa J. Bick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ilsa-j-bick/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ilsa-j-bick/it-was-that-stages-of-anger-thing-i-was-shocked-and-then-i-got-pissed/)

[Ilsa J. Bick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ilsa-j-bick/)

> [“I think. I sense. I wonder.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ilsa-j-bick/i-think-i-sense-i-wonder/)

[Ilsa J. Bick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ilsa-j-bick/)

> [Why can't you like me?" he said, his voice breaking. His scent steamed then, hot and heady with a welter of contradictions: apples and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ilsa-j-bick/why-can-t-you-like-me-he-said-his-voice-breaking-his-scent-steamed/)

[Ilsa J. Bick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ilsa-j-bick/)

> [“I doubted I would need my eyes. I drew in the dark, after all.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ilsa-j-bick/i-doubted-i-would-need-my-eyes-i-drew-in-the-dark-after-all/)

[Ilsa J. Bick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ilsa-j-bick/)

> [I am a ghost in a land of phantoms and forgotten nightmares.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ilsa-j-bick/i-am-a-ghost-in-a-land-of-phantoms-and-forgotten-nightmares/)

[Ilsa J. Bick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ilsa-j-bick/)

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