Twisted Quotes

“Because beneath the layers, life is all about contrasts and perspectives.”
― Andrew E. Kaufman, Twisted

“Together we would breathe, and together everything would feel better. All the fear, all the worries in our lives melting away, the two of us becoming one.”
― Andrew E. Kaufman, Twisted

“it’s not about what you see, but what you choose not to.”
― Andrew E. Kaufman, Twisted

“Even after I’m gone, my love will still be with you. You’ll always feel it deep inside your heart.”
― Andrew E. Kaufman, Twisted

“It would be difficult for any psychologist to hear a story like Donny Ray’s and not feel affected by it. We are, after all, human. We have emotional vulnerabilities just like everyone else, and while we’ve been trained to compartmentalize in order to help others, every so often a patient comes along who holds up the mirror to us. When that happens, it can be difficult to ignore what’s looking us in the face.”
― Andrew E. Kaufman, Twisted

“I’ve worked too damned hard to build trust, and fast as that trust can build, it can just as easily come tumbling down without warning or provocation.”
― Andrew E. Kaufman, Twisted

“A woman who believed she could manipulate reality simply by ignoring it. A woman who preferred to avoid the complexities of life rather than live in the messy parts.”
― Andrew E. Kaufman, Twisted

“and it bothers me that psychiatric hospitals have become a dumping ground for polluted minds. Stowing them away like rat poison for the safety of the community isn’t the answer. Furthering their psychological torment isn’t the answer, either.”
― Andrew E. Kaufman, Twisted

“And there you have it. Why each day, without fail, and with astounding strength, I find more reasons to love my wife in ways no words could come close to describing. I kiss her lips, and she”
― Andrew E. Kaufman, Twisted

“We are all sculptors and painters,” he says wearing a ravenous, craving expression, “and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones.”
― Andrew E. Kaufman, Twisted

“Denial only fertilizes fear, making it stronger and more virulent”
― Andrew E. Kaufman, Twisted

“psychopaths are quick-change artists who can conform to any shape imaginable.”
― Andrew E. Kaufman, Twisted

“life only moves in one direction, and what lies over your shoulder cannot be fixed.”
― Andrew E. Kaufman, Twisted

“This is my unyielding world, where I mend ruptured minds and fuse cognitive wires. A world that—if emotions were physical—would be a tangled mess of hooks and thorns. But”
― Andrew E. Kaufman, Twisted

“Denial only fertilizes fear, making it stronger and more virulent. Adam”
― Andrew E. Kaufman, Twisted

“If I could, I’d tell him that I understand how, once inflicted, the pain caused by a parent never leaves. How it becomes the biggest part of you.”
― Andrew E. Kaufman, Twisted

“What exactly do I have here? Bodies falling away all around this guy. And those hauntingly familiar eyes.”
― Andrew E. Kaufman, Twisted

“And right now we are moving deeper into its cavernous underbelly, a subsurface passageway that dead-ends at a high-security plaster box called Alpha Twelve. Home to the worst of the worst. The killers. The rapists. The dark souls with an incurable addiction to evil.”
― Andrew E. Kaufman, Twisted

“you are my everything.”
― Andrew E. Kaufman, Twisted

“Why are you taking my son away from me?”
― Andrew E. Kaufman, Twisted

“Having a parent die suddenly is a pain sharp and swift. Watching him submit to a slow death is even more excruciating. But when the mind goes before the body, it’s like attending a funeral every day.”
― Andrew E. Kaufman, Twisted

“you put one foot in front of the other. You walk on faith, and the answers will find you. They always do.”
― Andrew E. Kaufman, Twisted

“To die, to sleep, To sleep, perchance to dream; Aye, there’s the rub, For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause.”
― Andrew E. Kaufman, Twisted

“Losing track of time is a problem.”
― Andrew E. Kaufman, Twisted

“magnetic”
― Andrew E. Kaufman, Twisted

“I scrutinize my reaction. Am I”
― Andrew E. Kaufman, Twisted

“altruism by any other name is still altruism, fueled by many different motivations.”
― Andrew E. Kaufman, Twisted

“To deceive is like striking a match. It can be dangerous and destructive, deadly even, and the people closest to you are most at risk. The flame burns slowly at first, and then before you know it, erupts into a ferocious explosion, consuming everything that matters. In the aftermath, you’re standing in a cloud of smoke, staring at the charred and smoldering ruins of what once was.”
― Andrew E. Kaufman, Twisted

“It’s about the truth. It’s about knowing that somewhere in your mind the truth is hiding out, and you can’t find it, because there are all these reflections, and they’re blinding you.”
― Andrew E. Kaufman, Twisted

“I spend most of my night riding the Insomniac Express, bouncing between brief periods of turbulent sleep and wakeful, agitated tossing and turning.”
― Andrew E. Kaufman, Twisted