Bryony Gordon > Quotes

“Everyone has degrees of madness in them, everyone has a story to tell.”
― Bryony Gordon, Mad Girl: A Happy Life With A Mixed Up Mind: A celebration of life with mental illness from mental health campaigner Bryony Gordon

“She's joking, of course, but as with all the best jokes, it contains more than a grain of truth”
― Bryony Gordon, Mad Girl

“Your parents warn you about the monsters you might encounter in dark alleyways, but they never warn you about the monsters you might find in your own mind, the ones that taunt and trouble you, and make you question yourself to your very core.”
― Bryony Gordon, Mad Girl

“Female self-loathing has been handed down throughout the generations”
― Bryony Gordon, The Wrong Knickers: A Decade of Chaos

“Why do we tell our children to sit still all the time? Shouldn’t we be saying to them, in the immortal words of S Club: don’t stop movin’ to the funky funky beat!”
― Bryony Gordon, Eat, Drink, Run.: How I Got Fit Without Going Too Mad

“Firstly, think not of what you aren’t, but what you are. Secondly, remember that one day, things could happen to you that you wouldn’t be able to believe right now – the most astonishing, amazing things. Trust me when I say that all you have to do is hold on.”
― Bryony Gordon, Eat, Drink, Run.: How I Got Fit Without Going Too Mad

“All people belong to a We except me,”
― Bryony Gordon, Mad Girl: A Happy Life With A Mixed Up Mind: A celebration of life with mental illness from mental health campaigner Bryony Gordon

“For so many reasons, this approach to mental health has to change.”
― Bryony Gordon, Mad Girl: A Happy Life With A Mixed Up Mind: A celebration of life with mental illness from mental health campaigner Bryony Gordon

“My world was going to end because I couldn’t bear it, because I could not get out of bed and live in it any more, because it was too painful–and, although I was terrified of death, I was, by now, more terrified still of living.”
― Bryony Gordon, No Such Thing as Normal

“I am so thankful to them for not wanting me. Because in doing so, they have led me to someone who does.”
― Bryony Gordon, The Wrong Knickers: A Decade of Chaos

“...there is no right or wrong way to do things: there is only the way we end up doing them.”
― Bryony Gordon, No Such Thing as Normal

“If I had a time frame for when it would get better, I would at least be able to fill my diary with a sense of hope, as opposed to long periods of inertia interspersed with occasional bouts of utter panic.”
― Bryony Gordon, No Such Thing as Normal

“I’ve decided to imagine OCD as Jareth the Goblin King,’ I tell Harry after one of my sessions.”
― Bryony Gordon, Mad Girl: A Happy Life With A Mixed Up Mind: A celebration of life with mental illness from mental health campaigner Bryony Gordon

“just think you can’t let your demons ruin your day.”
― Bryony Gordon, Mad Girl: A Happy Life With A Mixed Up Mind: A celebration of life with mental illness from mental health campaigner Bryony Gordon

“I want them to them to think I am a Beyonce song COME TO LIFE!”
― Bryony Gordon, The Wrong Knickers: A Decade of Chaos

“the wedding season is a self-perpetuating nightmare of showiness,”
― Bryony Gordon, The Wrong Knickers: A Decade of Chaos

“Accepting that you have very little power to change anything other than your own behaviour is one of the most liberating things you will ever do.”
― Bryony Gordon, No Such Thing as Normal

“Relaxing seemed dangerous to me; it felt misleading. The moment I relaxed, something bad would happen, something would go wrong – and that would teach me, wouldn’t it?”
― Bryony Gordon, No Such Thing as Normal

“Sometimes, you have to fall to the bottom in order to make your way back to the top again.”
― Bryony Gordon, The Wrong Knickers: A Decade of Chaos

“far from being weird, mental illness was absolutely normal. So”
― Bryony Gordon, Mad Girl: A Happy Life With A Mixed Up Mind: A celebration of life with mental illness from mental health campaigner Bryony Gordon

“And I am so thankful to them for being who they were. I am so thankful to them for not wanting me. Because in doing so, they have led me to someone who does. I”
― Bryony Gordon, The Wrong Knickers: A Decade of Chaos

“I just think you can’t let your demons ruin your day.”
― Bryony Gordon, Mad Girl: A Happy Life With A Mixed Up Mind: A celebration of life with mental illness from mental health campaigner Bryony Gordon

“I learn how to do something called a burpee, which seems to involve squatting down, throwing your legs back, and then jumping back up again. Burpees look simple, fun even, but do not be fooled. They have actually been sent from the third circle of hell to punish those of us who have committed the cardinal sin of gluttony.”
― Bryony Gordon, Eat, Drink, Run.: How I Got Fit Without Going Too Mad

“But criticising someone for craving companionship? It’s like wishing you’d never been born – a total waste of time and energy, and you’re not helping anyone when you do it.”
― Bryony Gordon, Mad Girl: A Happy Life With A Mixed Up Mind: A celebration of life with mental illness from mental health campaigner Bryony Gordon

“Do you have any idea how underrated kind is”
― Bryony Gordon

“I can’t help but wonder if I am who I think I am.”
― Bryony Gordon, Mad Girl: A Happy Life With A Mixed Up Mind: A celebration of life with mental illness from mental health campaigner Bryony Gordon