Trish Cook > Quotes

“When we don’t directly ask for clarification, we tend to fill in the gaps with negative thoughts. These eventually become rooted in our minds as truths, and then everyone gets stuck in a cycle of misunderstanding and miscommunication.”
― Trish Cook, A Really Awesome Mess

“Do everything you can right now and then decide. Because now is all that matters.”
― Trish Cook, Midnight Sun

“I realize that even in the worst of times there’s always a ray of hope.”
― Trish Cook, Midnight Sun

“I have walked alone, with the stars in the moonlit night, I have walked alone, no one by my side. Now I walk with you, with my head held high, in the darkest night, I feel so alive.”
― Trish Cook, Midnight Sun

“There are a few people, or moments, in a person’s life that change our story. She’ll leave her mark on him forever. And him on her.”
― Trish Cook, Midnight Sun

“I think honesty is important like you said. But what I actually think is that the key to a good relationship is forgiveness, because without it we're all completely screwed. [...] Because we're all human, and we all make mistakes. Without forgiveness, we'd all be walking this Earth angry and alone, and I think that would really suck.”
― Trish Cook, Notes from the Blender

“She had a foul mouth. I didn’t think I could be more smitten.”
― Trish Cook, Notes from the Blender

“Omnia vincit amor”
― Trish Cook, Midnight Sun

“Sometimes the only way to deal with the really bad stuff is to laugh at it.”
― Trish Cook, Midnight Sun

“When you see someone you love in pain like that, it makes you want to lash out at the thing that hurt them”
― Trish Cook, Notes from the Blender

“Hay chicas decentes que van por los drogadictos, demasiado malas, chicas de aspecto peligrosos, algunas de los cuales parece que sólo podrían encontrar interesante introducir a un inocente como yo a los misterios de la carne.”
― Trish Cook, Notes from the Blender

“Not killing yourself even when you think you want to. Takes a lot more balls to stay alive, don’t you think?”
― Trish Cook, A Really Awesome Mess

“He's pretty much the perfect guy... which is why he doesn't need me and my problems in his life, I quickly conclude.”
― Trish Cook, Midnight Sun

“You can't control anyone else's actions, only how you respond to them.”
― Trish Cook

“Because we can talk and talk and talk and we’ll never figure out why I’m screwed up. It’s just the way my brain works. Or doesn’t work. Sometimes I just start feeling numb, and then after that it gets painful, and I don’t know why.”
― Trish Cook, A Really Awesome Mess

“not let this one aspect of your life—which doesn’t define you, might I add—stop you from chasing your wildest dreams. Try putting a little more faith in yourself and your fellow humans, and our infinite capacity to love and forgive each other in spite of our shortcomings.”
― Trish Cook, Midnight Sun

“And that's pretty much why I figure it's better to stick to who and what I know than take a chance trying to branch out friendship-wise in the real world. I refuse to give any more bullies an invitation into my life.”
― Trish Cook, Midnight Sun

“can’t control anyone else’s actions, only how you respond to them.”
― Trish Cook, A Really Awesome Mess

“Except it wasn’t really a physical pain. It was just like the act of being alive hurt so freaking much that if anybody touched me I thought I might shatter into a million pieces.”
― Trish Cook, A Really Awesome Mess

“We all smiled because it was the truth: Living did take a lot more guts than giving up.”
― Trish Cook, A Really Awesome Mess

“How do you get through it?” He was asking about my latest downturn, but I guessed the question could apply to life, too. And I didn’t know the answer.”
― Trish Cook, A Really Awesome Mess

“Are you afraid you're gonna fall out?'she asked.
'No' I said. 'I'm afraid I'm gonna jump out'
She looked at me for a long time. 'Well. Do you want to?'
'Not at all. That's why I'm so scare.”
― Trish Cook, A Really Awesome Mess