The F-It List Quotes

“Why can someone
get so sick that the only way to get better is to make them more sick?
It’s like the world’s longest exorcism. It doesn’t make sense that I can
chat with someone live on a tiny screen, that governments spend billions
of dollars on war and mayhem, that actors make millions of dollars
to just look pretty and skinny, yet no one can fucking fi gure out
how to cure cancer without torturing people.”
― Julie Halpern, The F-It List

“I have always kept a stack of library books next to my bed as a lifeline. If I ever woke in the middle of the night too scared to move or too sad to roll over, the books were my saviors.”
― Julie Halpern, The F-It List

“I wished I could erase the message, suck the word “sorry” from the En glish language, and hack it to pieces with a rusty ax.”
― Julie Halpern, The F-It List

“I can't buy the idea that we're supposed to live and learn from horrible things. That somehow these things happen so we can grow as people”
― Julie Halpern, The F-It List

“Can we stop calling it a bucket list? Again: implied death,” I
noted.
“I thought it meant all the things you can fi t into a bucket to do.”
“Um, no, I think it means all the things you can do before you
kick the bucket. Which, actually, I think is an allusion to suicide, right?
Like, kicking the bucket out from under your feet while you hang.
Or maybe someone else is kicking out the bucket.”
― Julie Halpern, The F-It List

“So I carried on, waiting for what ever was to come, with or without God’s help”
― Julie Halpern, The F-It List

“I didn’t have a boyfriend. I had someone to watch horror movies with while my best friend was too sick with cancer.”
― Julie Halpern, The F-It List

“Is it the boiler room? Is this the part where we both fall asleep and Freddy comes after us? ’Cause I could so kick his ass.”
― Julie Halpern, The F-It List

“Her words were generically profound, like a Hallmark card I’d skim over to get to the check.”
― Julie Halpern, The F-It List