I'll Tell You in Person Quotes

“All I wanted was simple and yet the hardest thing to find: a sense of well-being.”
― Chloe Caldwell, I'll Tell You in Person

“what feels like nectar in the beginning turns into poison in the long run, and what feels like poison in the beginning is nectar in the end.”
― Chloe Caldwell, I'll Tell You in Person

“All you need is one person in the world to condone your horrifying behavior, and to each other, we were that one special person.”
― Chloe Caldwell, I'll Tell You in Person

“In Buddhism, the term hungry ghost refers to the person whose appetite exceeds their capacity for satisfaction. The visual of a hungry ghost is a Buddha-ghost with a tiny mouth and an enormous stomach. They’re greedy, starved for money, sex, drugs, power, status, all the good stuff. More is never enough.”
― Chloe Caldwell, I'll Tell You in Person

“In the book The Fantasy Bond, Robert Firestone explains that children need to believe their parents are good, that everything is well and loving, because if they see the truth, they will crumble in the face of reality. It’s odd my mother would say something that profound because of a CoverGirl blush. Even now, it embarrasses me to think about—that she nailed me so hard.”
― Chloe Caldwell, I'll Tell You in Person

“In Buddhism, the term hungry ghost refers to the person whose appetite exceeds their capacity for satisfaction.”
― Chloe Caldwell, I'll Tell You in Person

“The way her beginning is her ending and her ending is her beginning.”
― Chloe Caldwell, I'll Tell You in Person

“A writer friend who is a practicing therapist as well once told me this is why writers write. They don’t feel seen. I”
― Chloe Caldwell, I'll Tell You in Person

“And I was using shortcuts. It fucking sucks to take the long way after knowing the shortcuts. There”
― Chloe Caldwell, I'll Tell You in Person

“Why do we do these things? Why do we go backwards?” I asked my friend Sean. “We do them to remember why we don’t do them,” he said. I”
― Chloe Caldwell, I'll Tell You in Person

“This habit of emailing authors when they make you feel something is one of the best traits my mother has passed down to me.”
― Chloe Caldwell, I'll Tell You in Person

“have hungry ghost tendencies I must keep in check.”
― Chloe Caldwell, I'll Tell You in Person

“A writer friend who is a practicing therapist as well once told me this is why writers write. They don’t feel seen.”
― Chloe Caldwell, I'll Tell You in Person

“How does someone learn to take one instead of two? I”
― Chloe Caldwell, I'll Tell You in Person