A person's relationship with food is one of their most important relationships.
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.
I think you run out of 'I love yous
Some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop saying in the middle.
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.
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.
I eat not because I want to, not because I have to overcome anything, not to prove myself to anyone, but because it's there. I eat because that's what people do. And somehow when the food is put in front of you by an institution, when there's a large gray force behind it and you don't have to thank anyone for it, you have the animal instinct to make it disappear.
its hard to talk when you want to kill yourself
Yes, Doctor. I'll do what you say. I'll do what you all say.
I want to live but I want to die. What do I do?
They're sort of ancillary anyway, friends. I mean, they're important -- everybody knows that; the TV tells you so -- but they come and go. You lose one friend, you pick up another.
Nobody had told me I was common.
I owe her everything and I love her and I tell her these days, although every time I say it, it gets a little diluted. I think you run out of I love yous.
Relationships change even more than people. It's like two people changing. It's exponentially more volatile. Especially two teenagers.
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?
I'm going to be here until I'm cured?" "Life is not cured, Mr. Gilner. Life is managed".
Time is a person-made concept.
See, when you mess something up, you learn for the next time. It's when people compliment you that you're in trouble. That means they expect you to keep it up.
The stuff adults tell you not to do is the easiest.
I should be a success and I'm not and other people- younger people- are. Younger people than me are on TV and getting their lives in order. I'm still a nobody. When am I going to not be a nobody?
And when you say the truth you get stronger.
But some people have to get lucky just to live. And I never knew I could make anybody lucky.
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