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- Each time my mother went psychotic, I hoped it would be the last time. Afterward she would tell me, 'I think that was the final…
- I realized I could really become hooked on these happy pills. They gave me a glorious feeling of general well-being and didn't make me fat,…
- There's not enough of me left over.
- When people meet me, many times they're very surprised because they expect someone who is kind of wacky with seven piercings and very hip and…
- Tracy, the leader of the CDH group, looks at me with eyes that seem to belong to someone three times her age. It's something beyond…
- He's a really nice guy, if only I weren't me.
- Should I just sit down, right here at carousel seven, and shake until somebody's arms are around me and they're saying, 'It's okay, I'm here,…
- I couldn't help but think, This car is taking me to a mental hospital and my mother is treating it like open-mic night at a…
- I told myself, 'All I want is a normal life'. But was that true? I wasn't so sure. Because there was a part of me…
- I gazed around the room and my eyes stopped dead on a little boy standing in the corner. This was a particularly eerie doll. Life-sized…
- So that's what I'm here to become. And suddenly, this word fills me with a brand of sadness I haven't felt since childhood. The kind…
- I just look at her and she creeps me out. She looks like she would eat a baby. Not that she's fat. She just looks…
- The reason I know what we are to each other is because we fight freely and almost constantly, about even the smallest thing. In fact,…
- To me, these people were as exotic as animals in a zoo. I'd never seen anything like them. I wasn't sure whether I wanted to…
- It’s a wonder I’m even alive. Sometimes I think that. I think that I can’t believe I haven’t killed myself. But there’s something in me…
- You deserve to need me, not to have me.
- Throwing things horrified me. I suffered extreme, paralyzing anxiety when it came to anything remotely athletic. I wouldn't even run to catch the school bus…
- As I sat in the hot, salty water, I thought, 'No wonder Mr. Bubble always gives me a urinary tract infection and hives.' Mr. Bubble…
- Part of me believes that love is more valuable when you have to work for it.
- (The new boyfriend) knows I write every day for hours but has no idea that all I’m writing about is me. It seems wiser to…
- But even with my minimal amount of fame, there are certain perks. Recently, I was at a movie premier, and at the party after the…
- I used to feel so alone in the city. All those gazillions of people and then me, on the outside. Because how do you meet…
- When I ate vanilla frosting straight from the can, I could feel God standing right nest to me like a real best friend, watching, and…
- I missed him so much that I had physical sensations of loss, all over my body. Like one minute I was missing an arm, the…
- It terrified me to consider: What if, as a grown-up, I craved another body beside me as still as this one? What then?
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- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- I'm literally open to any medium that will have me. — J. J. Abrams
- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. — Aristotle
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale