“There were nights when I left the sessions physically and emotionally drained after hearing the anguish pour out like blood from a gaping wound. Don’t let anyone ever tell you different – psychotherapy is one of the most taxing endeavors known to mankind; I’ve done all sorts of work, from picking carrots in the scorching sun to sitting on national committees in paneled board rooms, and there’s nothing that compares to confronting human misery hour after hour and bearing the responsibility for easing that misery using only one’s mind and mouth. At its best it’s tremendously uplifting as you watch the patient open up, breathe, let go of the pain. At its worst is like surfing in a cesspool struggling for balance while being slapped with wave after putrid wave.”
― Jonathan Kellerman, quote from When the Bough Breaks
“Assholes are like weeds, a bitch to get rid of and when you do another one grows back in its place.”
― Jonathan Kellerman, quote from When the Bough Breaks
“Pessimism is not good for the soul."
"I sold my soul years ago."
"To whom?"
"The bitch goddess Success. She cut town before paying off.”
― Jonathan Kellerman, quote from When the Bough Breaks
“It was shaping up as a beautiful morning. The last thing I wanted to hear about was murder.”
― Jonathan Kellerman, quote from When the Bough Breaks
“made out a shape at the other end of the greenhouse,”
― Jonathan Kellerman, quote from When the Bough Breaks
Jonathan Kellerman
Born place: in New York, The United States
Born date August 9, 1949
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“Detrás de sus pestañas, el Generalísimo observó cómo se descomponían de envidia las caras de Virgilio Álvarez Pina, de la Inmundicia Viviente, de Paíno Pichardo y de los generales. Sufrían. Pensaban que el nimio, el discreto poeta, el delicuescente profesor y jurista acababa de ganarles unos puntos en la eterna competencia en que vivían por los favores del Jefe, por ser reconocidos, mencionados, elegidos, distinguidos sobre los demás. Sintió ternura por estos diligentes vástagos, a los que tenía viviendo treinta años en perpetua inseguridad. —No”
― Mario Vargas Llosa, quote from The Feast of the Goat
“Stick it up your crack, you warped son of a mutant b*tch!”
― Darren Shan, quote from Lord Loss
“You'll need to suffer to make any real art.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Diary
“When you're young you have such expectations of each other. So many needs. And when you're older..." He shrugs. "You want someone who understands. We've lived different lives. We've loved different people. But I think that there will always be that..." He struggles for the right word. "That understanding we share. Of having grown up in the same world, of having live through the same memories.”
― Carrie Ryan, quote from The Dead-Tossed Waves
“It was one of those feminine faces whose every line has its own particular charm, and seems to possess a meaning, whose every movement seems to reveal or to conceal something.”
― Guy de Maupassant, quote from Bel-Ami
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