I'm Just Done.

“I knew then that he was a liar, that for all his reportage and his honesty he was determined to keep himself untouched, to take without giving, to hoard himself like a greedy child.”

“My mind blazed with ravishing lies. I thought, I cannot accept this gift of myself, myself as a gift, of my person, of having this mind that does not stop burning, that deceives itself and consumes itself and immolates itself and believes its own lies and chokes on plain fact.”

“It isn’t the future but the past that kills you, that comes back to torment and undermine you, and effectively ends up killing you.”

“What happens when you don’t find that right person? Do you just spend the rest of your life in a relationship where the conversation isn’t great, everything isn’t perfect, but it’s nice and sweet?”

“Forgive me if I don’t talk much at times. It’s loud enough in my head.”

“Sometimes to stay alive you got to kill your mind.”

“Sometimes the hardest things in life are the things we have to do. And even when we feel it’s right, I never want to hurt you.”

“I know I had it — I could feel it, the way you feel blood in your veins — and now I reach for it and reach for it, and it isn’t there.”

“This was all so wrongheaded, so backward, but I didn’t know how to think any differently. The rule was never a rule, but I had mistaken it for one. I took me years of questioning and seeking to see more than my little piece, and even now I don’t always see it.”

“In a book I am reading the author talks about word people versus fist people. As if words could not also be fists. Aren’t often fists.”

“He was suffering, and in a way, he could manage that; but he had caused others to suffer, and he did not know why he had to live now and recall the series of terrible choices that had not looked so terrible at the time. Was that how it was for most people?”

“It’s not the pain I’m afraid of; I know about the pain. What I’m afraid of is the end of this small, sweet dream.”

“Stop waiting for Friday, for summer, for someone to fall in love with you, for life. Happiness is achieved when you stop waiting for it and make the most of the moment you are in now.”

“It is impossible to live without failing at something – unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case you fail by default.”

“Everybody comes from the same source. If you hate another human being, you’re hating part of yourself.”

“I will not beg you for your time or try to convince you to choose me, the world is too big and I have too much to offer.”

“None but ourselves can free our minds.”