Flora Rheta Schreiber

i have no point in procrastinating any longer..

— Flora Rheta Schreiber

“It is so much more threatening to have something out of hand than to believe that at any moment I can stop…

— Flora Rheta Schreiber

I’m not fit to occupy space. Excuse me for living.

— Flora Rheta Schreiber

“Willard married his father in female form.”

— Flora Rheta Schreiber

“God fearing and man hating. Sugar sugar. There was so much sugar in the way they pretended to treat each other that…

— Flora Rheta Schreiber

“The neurologist had dismissed her case after a single visit, handing out an easy nostrum by telling her father that if she…

— Flora Rheta Schreiber

Isolated, she managed somehow to feel free—albeit with a freedom that made her want to smash a hole in the very center…

— Flora Rheta Schreiber

I have to force myself even to move my eyeballs. It's so easy just to stare.

— Flora Rheta Schreiber

“Theirs was the eternal youth of an alternating self, a youth with the constant although unfulfilled promise of growing up”

— Flora Rheta Schreiber

“Will there never be an end that also has a beginning? Will there never be continuity bridging the awful void between now…

— Flora Rheta Schreiber

It all made sense - terrible sense. The panic she had experienced in the warehouse district because of not knowing what had…

— Flora Rheta Schreiber

“When I wrote the previous letter, I had made up my mind I would show you how I could be very composed…

— Flora Rheta Schreiber

“It is so much more threatening to have something out of hand than to believe that at any moment I can stop…

— Flora Rheta Schreiber

“She'd abandoned the animal she loved as she herself had been abandoned repeatedly in the past by people who had claimed to…

— Flora Rheta Schreiber

Vicky became more serious and her tone more reflective as she remarked, "Life has so much pain that one needs a catharsis.…

— Flora Rheta Schreiber

The anger. The terror. The feeling of entrapment. the profound distrust of people.The wistful, plaintive conviction that a window, a thing, was…

— Flora Rheta Schreiber

I want somebody to love, and I want somebody to love me. And nobody ever will. And that's why it hurts. Because…

— Flora Rheta Schreiber

“I realized how trapped I was by all the talk of the end of the world.”

— Flora Rheta Schreiber

You're never ready for what you have to do. You just do it. That makes you ready.

— Flora Rheta Schreiber

There is no past. Past is present when you carry it with you.

— Flora Rheta Schreiber

“Well, it would have been easier if it were put on. But the only ruse of which I'm guilty is to have…

— Flora Rheta Schreiber