Beside Myself Quotes

“what you put out there and what people take away are two totally separate things. People’s minds process things in diverse ways. Everyone lives in different worlds, which is sort of sad but also has potential if you can work out how to turn it to your advantage.”
― Ann Morgan, Beside Myself

“She had no history and nothing to plan for. It was all over for the time being. She just was.”
― Ann Morgan, Beside Myself

“Oh yes, you’ve got questions. You want to know how it is that they’re sitting on that side of the desk and you’re sitting here. You want them to let you in on the secret of ‘normal’ and what it really means. You wonder how it’s possible in a world of Friends and novelty ringbinders for people to be shackled to a radiator so tightly they bleed, like the girl up the corridor was by her stepfather, or punched in the face until their bones go like jelly and the doctors have to rebuild them piece by piece.
But you have learnt these are not the questions people like this answer. They want easy questions. Questions they can see round the edges of. Questions you could probably answer by yourself if you gave it any thought.
So you don’t say anything. You shrug and shake your head, and let them dot the ‘i’s and cross the ‘t’s of your future as they see fit. Let them bring it, all of it, as much as they can manage: whatever it is, it can’t be worse than what you’ve already been through.”
― Ann Morgan, Beside Myself

“What a mean existence it must be to stay always in the shallows, bobbing on little eddies of feeling, and never weather the pitching and plunging of the open ocean and face the knowledge that events might overwhelm and wreck you.”
― Ann Morgan, Beside Myself

“Love. I should write a poem about it I could write a poem about it if the words didn't come so fast I would write a poem about it.”
― Ann Morgan, Beside Myself

“Like your insides are too close to the surface?”
― Ann Morgan, Beside Myself