A person's relationship with food is one of their most important relationships.
No," mom says, looking at me in the eyes. "What's a triumph is that you woke up this morning and decided to LIVE. THAT'S a triumph. that's what you did today.
I think you run out of 'I love yous
I don't-" I shake my head. (...) "What? What were you going to say?" This is another trick of shrinks. They never let you stop in midthought. If you open your mouth, they want to know exactly what you had the intention of saying.
Life is not cured, Mr. Gilner." Dr. Mahmoud leans in. "Life is managed.
My family shouldn't have to put up with me. They're good people, solid, happy. Sometimes when I'm with them I think I'm on television.
It’s a huge thing, this Shift, just as big as I imagined. My brain doesn’t want to think anymore; all of a sudden it wants to do.
deep down I believe my year was a special year: it produced me.
A working brain is probably a lot like a map, where anybody can get from one place to another on the freeways. It's the nonworking brains that get blocked, that have dead ends, that are under construction like mine.
How would you know? Everything’s like sex. It’s the universal metaphor. To pick a lock, let me guess, you have to go slow at first, but then you have to pull off some fancy moves, and you have to stay concentrated, and you have to stick something in something, right?
We wear our problems diffrently
They always said on TV you could do anything you wanted, but here I was trying to do something and it wasn't working. I would never be able to do it.
And that was the closest I've ever come to an epiphany.
What am I always going to do? I'm going to go home and freak out.I'm going to sit with my family and try not to talk about myself and what's wrong. Im going to try and eat. Then I'm going to try and sleep. I dread it. I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?
Yes, Doctor. I'll do what you say. I'll do what you all say.
I'm going to be here until I'm cured?" "Life is not cured, Mr. Gilner. Life is managed".
Is that the truth, Jimmy?" I ask without looking at him. "It's the truth and it come to ya!" I smile.
Relationships change even more than people. It's like two people changing. It's exponentially more volatile. Especially two teenagers.
its hard to talk when you want to kill yourself
Nobody had told me I was common.
I just want to not be me.
Things to do today: 1) Breathe in. 2) Breathe out.
A lot of the books that I grew up reading were pretty brutal, like the Redwall books.
Putting lessons in young adult books is very dangerous.
You all right, man?' This should be my name. I could be like a super hero: You All Right Man. Ah...' I stumble. Don't bug Craig,' Ronny is like. 'He's in the Craig zone. He's Craig-ing out.
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