“Google tells me everything I need to know about death except what comes after.”
― A.J. Betts, quote from Zac and Mia
“Perhaps courage is simply this spur-of-the-moment acts when your head screams don't, but your body does it anyway.”
― A.J. Betts, quote from Zac and Mia
“Courage is standing still even though you want to run. Courage is planting yourself and turning towards the thing that scares you, whether it's your leg or your friends or the guy who could break your heart again. It's opening your eyes and staring that fear down.”
― A.J. Betts, quote from Zac and Mia
“I don’t know how he does it—how he makes me forget the clock and the pain. Sometimes, even if it’s just for a few seconds, I can forget how crap my life is.”
― A.J. Betts, quote from Zac and Mia
“three is the worst hour. it's too dark, too bright, too late, too early. It's when the questions come, droning like flies, nudging me one by one until my mind's full of them”
― A.J. Betts, quote from Zac and Mia
“Isn't that normal? To want to be alone sometimes?”
― A.J. Betts, quote from Zac and Mia
“Düşünüyorum da bir otobüse binersem ve yeterince uzağa gidersem, en sonunda dünyanın kenarından düşerim.”
― A.J. Betts, quote from Zac and Mia
“There are some things you can't change ... And there are some things you can”
― A.J. Betts, quote from Zac and Mia
“Mia: Where do their other things go? Like mobile phones and all the music on ipods? I imagine mountains of phones. Songs forgotten in clouds.”
― A.J. Betts, quote from Zac and Mia
“We humans screw up everything in the short time we've got”
― A.J. Betts, quote from Zac and Mia
“De golpe siento lo que es coraje. El coraje es permanecer quieto, aunque desees salir corriendo. El coraje es plantarte y darte la vuelta para encarar aquello que temes [...] Es abrir bien los ojos y aguantarle la mirada a ese miedo.”
― A.J. Betts, quote from Zac and Mia
“There's nothing mysterious about death or what comes after. There's just nothing.”
― A.J. Betts, quote from Zac and Mia
“Perhaps time eats away all relationships”
― A.J. Betts, quote from Zac and Mia
“Yeah, there’s that, too, those razor-edged comments that come from nowhere like nunchuks.”
― A.J. Betts, quote from Zac and Mia
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“Some alters are what Dr Ross describes in Multiple Personality Disorder as 'fragments'. which are 'relatively limited psychic states that express only one feeling, hold one memory, or carry out a limited task in the person's life. A fragment might be a frightened child who holds the memory of one particular abuse incident.' In complex multiples, Dr Ross continues, the 'personalities are relatively full-bodied, complete states capable of a range of emotions and behaviours.' The alters will have 'executive control some substantial amount of time over the person's life'. He stresses, and I repeat his emphasis, 'Complex MPD with over 15 alter personalities and complicated amnesia barriers are associated with 100 percent frequency of childhood physical, sexual and emotional abuse.' Did I imagine the castle, the dungeon, the ritual orgies and violations? Did Lucy, Billy, Samuel, Eliza, Shirley and Kato make it all up? I went back to the industrial estate and found the castle. It was an old factory that had burned to the ground, but the charred ruins of the basement remained. I closed my eyes and could see the black candles, the dancing shadows, the inverted pentagram, the people chanting through hooded robes. I could see myself among other children being abused in ways that defy imagination. I have no doubt now that the cult of devil worshippers was nothing more than a ring of paedophiles, the satanic paraphernalia a cover for their true lusts: the innocent bodies of young children.”
― quote from Today I'm Alice: Nine Personalities, One Tortured Mind
“What is certain is that the world has got beyond the stage at which one may affect modesty and maidenly shame, and I think that the world is too old a duffer to assume to be childish and maidenly without becoming ridiculous.
Since its marriage to civilization society has forfeited its right to be ingenuous and prudish. There is a blush which beseems the bride as she is being bedded, which would be out of place on the morrow; for the young wife mayhap remembers no more what it is to be a girl, or, if she does remember it, it is very indecent, and seriously compromises the reputation of the husband.”
― Théophile Gautier, quote from Mademoiselle de Maupin
“I am looking for friends. What does that mean -- tame?"
"It is an act too often neglected," said the fox. "It means to establish ties."
"To establish ties?"
"Just that," said the fox. "To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world....”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, quote from Der kleine Prinz
“In the university, professors make up artificial problems. In the real world, the problems do not come in nice, neat packages. They have to be discovered.”
― Donald A. Norman, quote from Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition (Revised)
“Growing up, I was discouraged from telling personal stories. My dad often used the phrase “Don’t tell anyone.” But not about creepy things. I don’t want to lead you down the wrong path. It would be about insignificant things. Like I wouldn’t make the soccer team and my father would say, “Don’t tell anyone.” And I would say, “They’re gonna know when they show up to the games and I’m not on the team and I’m crying.”
― quote from Sleepwalk With Me and Other Painfully True Stories
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