Personal Demons Quotes

“I walk up right behind Frannie, where she’s sitting near the door, in time to hear her say, “You know what, Tay? Go to Hell,” and I smile, because I think it’s cute that she’s inviting her friends along.”
― Lisa Desrochers, Personal Demons

“She’s fiery for sure. I like a little fire. Makes me feel at home.”
― Lisa Desrochers, Personal Demons

“There’s no crying in baseball and no love in Hell. It’s just the rules. You could say it’s against our religion, more or less.”
― Lisa Desrochers, Personal Demons

“Look at Picasso. O’Neill. Tennessee Williams. Capote. Were these shiny happy people spreading sunshine? No. Only the greatest of personal demons can force you to do powerful work.”
― Marisha Pessl, Night Film

“And I start to say that I’m not lying now, but I am, so that would be a lie.”
― Lisa Desrochers, Personal Demons

“I try to pretend his shoulder touching mine isn’t causing totally unrelated parts of me to tingle.”
― Lisa Desrochers, Personal Demons

“What is it?”
“Well, how it works is you take the box out of my hand and open it,” I say with a grin.”
― Lisa Desrochers, Personal Demons

“On calm days, you always think you've conquered them. 
You think that in the end you've finally done them in.
That you've got rid of them for good, now and forever.
But that seldom happens.
Most of the time, the demons are still there, lurking somewhere in the shadows.
Tirelessly waiting for the moment when our guard drops.
And when love goes away...”
― Guillaume Musso, Seras-tu là?

“Can you identify the source preventing you from feeling good every single day, from loving yourself unconditionally and making your dreams come true? Is it a voice in your head or a gut wrenching ache that compromises your inner peace and doesn’t allow you to accept the love around you? Is there one thing, or maybe many things, keeping you from forgiving your past and moving forward, tormenting you with lies like “You don’t deserve real love so just settle for whatever you can get,” “You’re not smart enough to achieve your dream so don’t even try,” or “Look at your past… you should hate yourself way more than you actually do!”?

Welcome to your Little Monster.”
― Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“We all have doors inside us that should never be opened. God help us all when we find the keys to unlock them.”
― Nenia Campbell

“I was thinking we could get a picture of you holding a pitchfork or something. Maybe a big wooden cross? Sound good?"(Brian)

She stared at him. He lifted his hands and leaned back in his seat, as if he was afraid she might start spitting on him. "Hey, only joking."

"Very funny."

"Oh, I do love jokes." Greyson Dante stood by her side.

"Hello, Mr. Dante. I'm afraid this is a private conversation, so you will, of course, be going now."

His grin widened. Was there no way to insult the man?”
― Stacia Kane, Personal Demons

“I assume you think by now that you would never do this. You tell yourself that I'm sick and you're well.

We all have demons.

Don't lie to yourself.”
― Colubrina, Sublimation

“...so everyone knows they get to see Dr. Demon Slayer on a regular basis."

Megan almost choked on her steak. "The who?"

"The demon slayer. That's what the station specified we were to call you.”
― Stacia Kane, Personal Demons

“Welcome back to Personal Demons." Megan said into the microphone. "Our next caller is Regina. Hi, Regina, how can I slay your personal demons?"

The words tasted like shame.”
― Stacia Kane, Personal Demons

“How can I go, meeting and exorcising my own ghosts here! I've made some new ones now.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Why? Because a demon is after me
And he she it has been
Since the day I was born”
― Dorothea Lasky, Rome: Poems

“Remove all of the distractions, and here, in the silence and the solitude, the demons they have kept at bay catch up with them.”
― Lucy Foley, The Hunting Party

“Meredith's father, the composer, who shot himself in this house. Came all the way from Vienna to shoot himself in LA. Escaped the Nazis but not himself.”
― Janet Fitch, Paint it Black

“People have demons. And those demons have a meaning specific to that person. Sins, addictions, other failures and assorted traumas… sources of torment bodied forth.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo