Quotations
"I knew this was gonna happen.
I knew she didn't look well. Maybe she's just in a bad
way; she was weak; maybe they can revive her; maybe this
will finally drive home how serious her health problem is." - Richard Carpenter on the death of his sister, Karen Carpenter "Oh no, you won't. You won't take a
little time at all. You're gonna be a big job to fix up." ".... and that is what Richard
needed.... someone to do what he wanted them to..." "All my strength is not back
yet, and that alone gets me upset." "She wanted a wedding and a
family and a white picket fence.... She was searching for
something, and she never found it." "They're fictional creatures,
Mulder. Folktales born out of some collective fear of the
unknown." "We're not sure what happened.
But there is a medical explanation for his condition." "She says, 'It's only in my
head.' "Open up your eyes "So she takes her pills---- "I have this demon who wants
me to run away screaming if I am going to be flawed,
fallible. It wants me to think I'm so good I must be
perfect. Or nothing. I am, on the contrary, something: a
being who gets tired, has shyness to fight, has more
trouble than most facing people easily. If I get through
this year, kicking my demon down when it comes up,
realizing I'll be tired after a day's work.... and it's
natural tiredness, not something to be ranted about in
horror, I'll be able, piece by piece, to face the field
of life, instead of running from it the minute it hurts." "Does failure whet my blade?..." "... She is crying "To rush into the secret house
of death, "dying is an art, like
everything else. "I wasn't born with enough
middle fingers." |
![]() and I linger about like a scared child waiting for a city bus... but at the wrong stop... so even if I board... I will be going somewhere wrongly unfamiliar... and I will be lost... trapped forever in this muck... called my life." - me |
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