“Everybody’s gotta have somebody to step on. Makes ’em feel important.” — Juliann Garey Copy Share Image
“All the major players were our clients. I had handled the conflicting demands, pacified the volatile tempers, and anticipated and circumvented the irrational tantrums.… — Juliann Garey Copy Share Image
“Because every day when I wake up, the clouds gather, a little darker each day, and I feel less and less equipped to do anything about them. To go anywhere. To make a change. To speak more than the occasional sentence. So I go to the bookstores. I do not want to speak and I do not want to be… — Juliann Garey Copy Share
“I do not believe in God. Instead I believe in the power of Family. And occasionally, when I’m feeling optimistic, in free will. But blood is a force to be reckoned with. God, for example, can’t give you an excellent head of hair. Your family can. They can also give you cancer. And heart disease. Nothing kills like Family. I… — Juliann Garey Copy Share
“No, not just because it’s okay for boys to cry too. But because, Greyson, you are very lucky. Not everyone can feel things as deeply as you. Most people, their feelings are … bland, tasteless. They’ll never understand what it’s like to read a poem and feel almost like they’re flying, or to see a bleeding fish and feel grief that shatters… — Juliann Garey Copy Share
“I cannot pretend to be the person they think I am for one more day. Slowly, over time, like wallpaper, the face I have shown the world has peeled away. I am a building on the brink of being condemned. I have tried for the longest time to hide it. To show only the best sides of myself in the… — Juliann Garey Copy Share
“Everybody’s gotta have somebody to step on. Makes ’em feel important.” — Juliann Garey Copy Share Image
“The truth is technical, clinical, not well understood. Essentially, somewhere behind my overactive, often dysfunctional frontal lobe, my hippocampus is getting hot, and in… — Juliann Garey Copy Share Image
“I do not believe in God. Instead I believe in the power of Family. And occasionally, when I'm feeling optimistic, in free will. But… — Juliann Garey Copy Share Image
“Everybody's gotta have somebody to step on. Makes 'em feel important.' 'But there have to be better, more productive ways of proving your worth… — Juliann Garey Copy Share Image
“Not everyone can feel things as deeply as you. Most people, their feelings are ... bland, tasteless. They'll never understand what it's like to… — Juliann Garey Copy Share Image
“Okay, Pop. Well, I’ll call you tonight then.” I walked out of the room backward, smiling cheerfully until I was sure he couldn’t see… — Juliann Garey Copy Share Image
