Quotes By Letter: G

“She searched me carefully, as with a scene on is asked to memorize; that is, as if she might never see me again. 'Thank you for a pleasant walk, Asgar.'

'It was pleasant.'

'Yes.'

'I'm grateful you could come Alice.'

'It's been nice.'

Dull, ordinary words for people who want the moment to die. And perhaps, I did. It was too awful to think that I had preserved my heart so long ago and that now, years later, I had stuck it in my chest, smelling of formaldehyde, and found it too sorry and shriveled to work. But it's a common tale. Isn't there a statue, in Shakespeare, of a long-dead queen who comes to life before the eyes of her mourning king? The king rejoices and repents, but what does he do the next day? Does he remember how she sang off-key as she brushed her hair, how she screeched at servants?”

-The Confessions of Max Tivoli, A.S. Greer

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“As long as I'm between home and the clinic I do all right. But out in the real world, I feel like prey. I slink around and can feel people looking at me. I feel their eyes boring into me. I feel what they're thinking: Watch her, she could go off anytime. But within the walls of my farmhouse, I climb out of the protective shell, my arms slowly rise like a phoenix, and I dance, wail, fly around the room and then collapse, crying, in front of my mirrors. I start to see in the mirror what it is I really look like, instead of what I was trained from the womb to see. I do not write about it. I do not talk about it. I do not know what I am doing. But just like a baby bird, I am blinking once-sealed eyes and unfolding damp wings. I cannot articulate the past. A part of me knows it's there, lurking, just behind what I can acknowledge, but it is not within sight. And I am keeping it that way. ”

-Sickened, Julie Gregory

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“I start to see that I surround myself with broken people; more broken than me. Ah, yes, let me count your cracks. Let's see, one hundred, two... yes, you'll do nicely. A cracked companion makes me look more whole, gives me something outside myself to care for. When I'm with whole, healed people I feel my own cracks, the shatters, the insanities of dislocation in myself. ”

-Sickened, Julie Gregory

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“How helpless they all looked in the ugliness of sleep. A third of life spent unconscious and corpselike. And some, the great majority, stumbled through their waking hours scarcely more awake, helpless in the face of destiny. They stumbled down a dark alley toward their deaths. They sent exploring feelers into the light and met fire and writhed back again into the darkness of their blind groping.”

-Nightmare Alley, William Lindsay Gresham

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“Maybe we like the pain. Maybe we're wired that way. Because without it, I don't know, maybe we just wouldn't feel real. What's that saying? Why do I keep hitting myself with a hammer? Because it feels so good when I stop.”

-Grey's Anatomy [television show]

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“In reality, loneliness was more like a slow and constant drowning. I simply disappeared. The hall and classroom swallowed me up, and I became invisible, my quiet flailing unnoticed. ”

-Amandine, Adele Griffin

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“I spit, I spit in the eye, I tear, I tear out my heart, and I scatter the bits.
I stay unseen by the light, I stay untold by the truth
I'm sold by a lie
By this I am able in all of my travels to make these memories quit
But tonight I clearly recall every little bit.”

-Every Little Bit, Patty Griffin

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“And it is in the realm of the imagination that the greatest agonies are suffered; if I imagine myself guilty, even though I am not, I suffer as if I were. ”

-Susan Griffin

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“I read that many trees, not only by the side of the road but deep in forests, evidence a new fragility. It is in the air. And the rain, or what is in it. Everything alive begins to seem frail, everything. ”

-Susan Griffin

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“It's all a joke to them. Oh he's just sad, he's just overweight, he's just lazy. No, he wants to die. He wants to burn. He wants to never wake up again. Turn the ignore back on.”

-grouphug.us

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“Art is either plagiarism or revolution.”

-Paul Guaguin

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“Geez, if I could get through to you, kiddo, that depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling. Reduction, see? Of all feeling. People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.”

-Ordinary People, Judith Guest

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“I will just play dumb
I won't hear a single word that's said
I will bite my tongue
Never sing another song again.”

-Rainy Day, Guster

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“Try wearing your inside's out
I don't even try, I know I have seen the best I'll have.”

-Rainy Day, Guster

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