Memoir Quotes
The greatest challenge of my life has been to see and accept the actual truth without great pain and struggle against it.
For the first time I realized adults could back themselves into corners so remote that love, or its memory, could no longer reach them.
A marriage, willy-nilly, requires you to trust that your spouse will tell your story truthfully and lovingly when you are no longer around to tell it yourself.
As an adult, getting paid thousands of dollars a week to say, “Aye, Sir. Course laid in” is a seriously sweet gig, but when I was a teenager, it sucked.
You know Becky, you haven't been the same since that crowbar fell on your head." - spoken by my mother after I eloped with a guy I'd known for about a month, when I was 18 years old!
Oh my!! How you've grown. Soon you'll be catching the Lord's balls.
...if that energy could have been channelled into anything more than noise, waste and pain it would have lighted up Indochina for a thousand years.
If you can see it, you can achieve it. God helps those who helps themselves. Power is in the act of humility.
I am a product of two worlds and each world has given me a reason to love, be kind and grow strong.
When I first met Billy I thought about sucking his eyes right out of their sockets. They’re like turquoise gum drops.
I try to walk around without being noticed but I can’t help attracting attention with my pink Mohawk, black clothing and steel toes, and often I’m with Holly and we’re both tall and arrogant.
I think each family has a funhouse logic all its own, and in that distortion, in that delusion, all behavior can seem both perfectly normal and crazy.
I write so that my handful of pebbles, cast daily into still waters, will produce a ripple.
The memoirs of call girls are much in demand these days - a millennial craze.
There is a cost to loving anything, or anyone. No one tells you that when you are young.
The clown was an evil one. They’re either good or bad, and this one was definitely the latter.
To tell a tale so great as to tear the soul inside out"Sara Niles, Torn From the Inside Out
...my sisters are tough. Our strength is in our laughter (Dan)
I've had cancer twice and if I had to pick one fate for you, cancer or fertility problems-I'd pick cancer.
My mother taught me that an important word in any language is while. while one thing is happening so is another. While someone is in darkness another is in daylight.While person dies another is born.
In 2005, my mad half, HER was born... ME & HER: a Memoir of Madness, 2012.
This is a work of memory -- facts have been altered. Names have been changed.
Murphy's law inverted: What can go right, will go right. (Works if you're an optimist.)
To me he seemed one of those persons destined to failure of whom you wonder what purpose it can ever serve that they should have ben born.
Murphy's law inverted: What can go right, will go right.
I just want to see places – something inside me just makes me keep moving.
A garden is never finished. In that sense it is like the human world and all human undertakings.
He clenched his small fist, bellowed his rage to the heavens, and resolved to never again recognize the authority of any man on earth.
We are not defined by what knocks us down - we are defined by how e get back up
They say the truth will set you free, but what they neglect to mention is what happens when the truth isn't what you want to hear.
I am not here to make you feel better, I am just here to make you feel worse
Tomorrow is promised to no one so live your life fully everyday.
I'm just scared I won't run as fast as I did my freshman year, ' I admitted, choking back tears.Coach Woj looked at me for a moment, his eye gentle.'You don't have to.
Writing the story of their own life allows the author to parse their story into examinable segments while continuing to engage in the act of communion and creation.
In the beginning, I only wanted to know, love, and serve God and understand the Bible. What harm could that possibly bring?
The shape of your life depends upon whether you choose to be the sculptor or the clay.
I know that I'm crazy. And that has made all the difference." From: Furiously Happy: A funny book about horrible things.
Only when we feel the story in each of its moments or places are we able to tell it properly.
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