Mallory Briggs > Mallory's Quotes

“You are like the death flowers that grow rampant in your wake: lovely to look at, intoxicating even, but get too close and you will soon learn that there is something rank beneath. That’s what beauty often is, in nature. A warning. A disguise.”
― Krystal Sutherland, House of Hollow

“They’re a reminder that sometimes we screw up, and sometimes the system screws with us, but if you live your life with enough passion and boldness, then that’s what you’ll be remembered for. Not the crap that happened along the way.”
― Nikki Erlick, The Measure

“We don’t know how much our bodies can endure until we make cruel demands of them.”
― Jason Rekulak, Hidden Pictures

“Over several months, the drug had completely rewired my brain, hijacking more and more of my pain receptors, and now I needed OxyContin simply to exist. I couldn’t sleep, or eat, or focus in class. And no one warned me this was going to happen. No one told me to expect a struggle.”
― Jason Rekulak, Hidden Pictures

“There is someone who has kept you here, breathing, moving, living.”
― Rebecca Ross, Ruthless Vows

“And yet I press my fingers to the scars in my skin—soft, tender, warm as the blood beneath—and I hear, “There is a divine … There is someone who has kept you here, breathing, moving, living.”
― Rebecca Ross, Ruthless Vows

“The magic still gathers, and the past is gilded; I see the beauty in what has been but only because I have tasted both sorrow and joy in equal measures.”
― Rebecca Ross, Ruthless Vows

“even when I feel lost, the birds still sing, the moon still waxes and wanes, and the seasons still cycle.”
― Rebecca Ross, Ruthless Vows

“that pattern of conditioned compliance—the result of deeply rooted trauma—would define every relationship, interaction, and decision in my life.”
― Bruce D. Perry, What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing

“I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.”
― Bruce D. Perry, What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing

“I was only thinking how strange it is. To think how many people we cross paths with in our lives. How someone like me has found someone like you.”
― Rebecca Ross, Ruthless Vows

“Survival’s funny. Some wear it like a whisper, others like a scream. Mine’s a scorched skeleton of flame-forged rage that keeps me upright. Keeps me moving forward.”
― Sarah A. Parker, When the Moon Hatched

“If the only thing that differentiates us from animals is the fact that we hide to defecate, then being human rests on very little, I thought.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“human beings need to speak, otherwise they lose their humanity,”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“I am the sterile offspring of a race about which I know nothing, not even whether it has become extinct.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“Perhaps, somewhere, humanity is flourishing under the stars, unaware that a daughter of its blood is ending her days in silence.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“I cannot mourn for what I have not known.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“We had survived the prison, the plain and the loss of all hope, but the women had discovered that survival is no more than putting off the moment of death.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“You could grow to love something so strong and elemental, but you’d have to value the beauty of it more than you did your own life.”
― Alice Hoffman, Everything My Mother Taught Me

“Why do some people just breeze through life, getting everything? Why do some people have to fight so hard just to stay sane? Just to stay alive?”
― Ruth Mancini, The Woman on the Ledge

“There must be quite a few things a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“Whenever I’m sad I’m going to die, or so nervous I can’t sleep, or in love with somebody I won’t be seeing for a week, I slump down just so far and then I say: “I’ll go take a hot bath.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“I don’t believe in baptism or the waters of Jordan or anything like that, but I guess I feel about a hot bath the way those religious people feel about holy water.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“she knew better than most that deserving had little to do with getting. She was sure almost no one got to give permission for the worst things that happened to them.”
― Tracy Sierra, Nightwatching

“Easier to believe a woman’s lying than that bad things happened on your watch. Easier to believe the simplest thing is always correct. And it’s simple to say a woman is crazy.”
― Tracy Sierra, Nightwatching

“You are not the things that happened to you, Gideon.”
― Kristen Ciccarelli, Heartless Hunter

“The point is to let me give you this one small thing, because I couldn’t give you the rest.”
― Kristen Ciccarelli, Heartless Hunter

“What kind of devil wears cologne?”
― Clémence Michallon, The Quiet Tenant

“what men feared most was pity, and what women feared most was envy. And it resonated with me. For a guy envy can be empowering, but for a girl it just means you’re going to get attacked or excluded.”
― Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

“What a thing it must be to be indifferent to indifference.”
― Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein