Cynthia Bugsey > Cynthia's Quotes

“I'd rather be a bitch than a doormat.”
― Jessica Zafra

“We like to look for patterns and find connections in unrelated events. This way we can explain them to ourselves. Life seems neater, or at least less messy. We need to feel we are in control: it is integral to our self-esteem. We also know, though we deny it, that we are not in control. So we settle for the illusions of control. What if we stopped fooling ourselves?”
― Jessica Zafra, Twisted 8 ½

“Life is a series of random collisions.”
― Jessica Zafra, Chicken Pox for the Soul

“Marriage is a contract. Love is non-negotiable.”
― Jessica Zafra, Chicken Pox for the Soul

“The more "normal" the person seems, the sicker she probably is.”
― Jessica Zafra, Chicken Pox for the Soul

“While being madly in love is fun, perhaps one should aspire to be sanely in love.”
― Jessica Zafra, Chicken Pox for the Soul

“You can not make someone love you. You can not be thin enough or white enough or famous enough. The choice is entirely the other person's. Then again, you might try hypnosis.”
― Jessica Zafra, Chicken Pox for the Soul

“People who read books in public places are regarded with suspicion because they appear self-sufficient. When you seem self-sufficient, other people think that you think you're better than them, and they get resentful.”
― Jessica Zafra, Chicken Pox for the Soul

“The reason men rule is because women let them.”
― Jessica Zafra, Chicken Pox for the Soul

“The reason producers make stupid movies is because there are stupid people who will pay to see them.”
― Jessica Zafra, Chicken Pox for the Soul

“We read because we are essentially alone.”
― Jessica Zafra, Twisted 8: The Night of the Living Twisted

“We don't really have a movie industry; we have a trailer industry. The movie guys make five minutes worth of stuff to get people in the theatre, and eighty-five minutes of filler.”
― Jessica Zafra, Chicken Pox for the Soul

“Someday you will look back on all the awful stuff that's happening to you, and fondly smile. Doesn't say much about the future, does it?”
― Jessica Zafra, Chicken Pox for the Soul

“One of the advantages of having an imaginary boyfriend is that he exists only for you, therefore he can not be stolen. The disadvantage is that you can not introduce him to your friends.”
― Jessica Zafra, Chicken Pox for the Soul

“Everyone declares that love is irrational, and yet everytime this statement is proven correct, they profess amazement. They seem to assume that love will make an exception in their case. It never does.”
― Jessica Zafra, Chicken Pox for the Soul

“To work problems out for yourself, to find you own way out of ignorance, to know the pleasure of knowing - these things improve the quality of life. Unfashionable, even impractical, but true.”
― Jessica Zafra, Twisted 8 ½

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“Perhaps Mr. Grey insists on all his employees being blonde. I’m wondering idly if that’s legal.”
― E.L. James, Fifty Shades of Grey

“. . . the problem with looking for your glasses is that you don’t have your glasses on while you’re looking . . .”
― Marcus Sakey, The Two Deaths of Daniel Hayes

“What really matters in the game among nations is national strength and military capability to maintain national security, to preserve the integrity of the national territory, to protect and promote national interest, and to uphold national sovereignty and honor of the nation. Nothing less and nothing more.”
― Juan Ponce Enrile, Juan Ponce Enrile: A Memoir