Please Stop Trying to Leave Me Quotes

“When I was born, god scattered me endlessly across the universe. I often find myself in notepads and sticky notes, in the margins of used novels and in the scribbles of bathroom stalls. When I recognize a piece as myself, I am delighted. And no matter how odd or unsettling I find the new fragment to be, I braid it into myself without a doubt that it belongs to me.”
― Alana Saab, Please Stop Trying to Leave Me

“I always believed that there was the one out there for me and that they were going to take away the nostalgia. Then she came and it really happened. So I call her my one.”
― Alana Saab, Please Stop Trying to Leave Me

“Her writing kept her pain at a distance from her. It kept her memories dissociated from her body. It kept her emotions trapped somewhere away from her heart. Writing was her attempt at transplanting her trauma into a character so she didn’t have to hold it. And when she transplanted it, she could edit the trauma the way she so badly wanted to edit her memories. Sometimes the pain was so difficult, she had to write a character who was writing another character.”
― Alana Saab, Please Stop Trying to Leave Me

“I think, my new therapist says, you still don’t trust that love exists outside of a story. When we first met, real love was too big of a concept for your mind to understand, because it didn’t look like your parents’ love and it didn’t look like the fairy tales either. What love really is terrifies you. And we both know it terrifies you, because you ran from a good person who was offering it.”
― Alana Saab, Please Stop Trying to Leave Me

“Today, if someone asked me what, if not a bird, if not fire, is love to me, I would most likely say, surrender.”
― Alana Saab, Please Stop Trying to Leave Me

“My new therapist furrows her eyebrows and tilts her head to the side like a good, curious dog and asks, Was That God Or Was That Just An Instagram Post?”
― Alana Saab, Please Stop Trying to Leave Me

“Can you give me an example of other spiritual reasons for events? I want to say, like that frizz in your hair. There’s a spiritual reason for that, but I don’t know you well enough to know what it is.”
― Alana Saab, Please Stop Trying to Leave Me