Felisha > Felisha's Quotes

“Nothing's ever the same," she said. "Be it a second later or a hundred years. It's always churning and roiling. And people change as much as oceans.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“First of all, why you would ask a man anything is beyond me.”
― Samantha Irby, Wow, No Thank You.

“am a high-functioning depressed and anxious person. I know it can manifest in myriad ways, but mine are these: (1) extreme inertia, but never at the expense of my employment, so mostly bailing on friends who want to hang out and feeling extremely apathetic toward doing “fun” things that aren’t lying very still; (2) self-soothing with food, though never in shocking amounts, mostly just staring into the void while eating ice cream over the sink, then realizing, “oops, the pint is finished”; (3) fear of trying new things or venturing out of a comfort zone, clinging to childhood demons as a means of never actually having to move forward; (4) blistering resentment for the outwardly happy and seemingly well-adjusted.”
― Samantha Irby, Wow, No Thank You.

“I feel like every medical professional I talk to is two degrees from saying “you’re too fat” no matter what you’ve made an appointment for them to check. I don’t know the correlation between gummy ears and weight, but if you give a doctor enough latitude, they will find one.”
― Samantha Irby, Wow, No Thank You.

“Why has age made me better at so few things?”
― Samantha Irby, Wow, No Thank You.: Essays

“Anger demands you DO and sadness requires you be. For all my inherited comfort with anger, I find sitting in sadness to be excruciating. Anger is so much easier! It’s a quick release and it feels good in the moment, but it can really hurt people, which also hurts me. But if I can manage to sit in the uncomfortable feelings that lie beneath, even for a millisecond, I am offered a tiny gift. The gift of a pause. And in that pause a crack of light comes in and I’m able to see things a little more clearly. I know to immediately turn my phone off or, if I’m driving, pull over and put it in the trunk both for its own safety and so I don’t call anyone. And if I’m still mad after a few hours, great. I now know it’s something worth being angry about. But the pause allowed me to gather myself and harness my anger so I can now aim it in an appropriate”
― Casey Wilson, The Wreckage of My Presence

“And acknowledge the truth. It wasn’t just our “hard work” that got us where we are. My grandma and parents paid for my college. In my early twenties my mom sent me money with the earmark “Follow your dreams.”
― Casey Wilson, The Wreckage of My Presence

“Like every other poor kid with sick or addicted parents, I knew that I needed to make myself small, that my problems should remain my problems only.”
― Samantha Irby , Wow, No Thank You.: Essays

“So please, for the love of gender- go bloom. Or water someone else while they do.”
― S. Bear Bergman, The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You

“To love someone is firstly to confess: I'm prepared to be devastated by you.”
― Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body

“I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“Nice people made the best Nazis. My mom grew up next to them. They got along, refused to make waves, looked the other way when things got ugly and focused on happier things than “politics.” They were lovely people who turned their heads as their neighbors were dragged away. You know who weren’t nice people? Resisters.”
― Naomi Shulman

“You think you're unlovable. But I think I've never known how to love, until knowing you.”
― Sarah Adams, Beg, Borrow, or Steal

“And to think you consider yourself hard to love.” I kiss her temple. “Loving you is the easiest thing I’ve ever done.”
― Sarah Adams, Beg, Borrow, or Steal

“I'll be so careful with you, Emily.”
― Sarah Adams, Beg, Borrow, or Steal

“It’s a weird thing to let yourself grieve your parent who is still living, but I’ve done it—do it regularly, actually.”
― Sarah Adams, Beg, Borrow, or Steal