Horror Stories Quotes

“Women deserve respect, independence, and equality, period. We’re not carpetbaggers piggybacking on the civilization you created. You made skyscrapers and bridges and rockets? Well, we made you.”
― Liz Phair, Horror Stories

“I’d draw out the poison of thinking that faults and failures make someone unworthy, and instead I’d reveal how bad decisions”
― Liz Phair, Horror Stories

“Childhood is a time of curiosity and peril, and nobody comes out of it unscarred.”
― Liz Phair, Horror Stories: A Memoir

“It's easier to believe in limitations than it is to take responsibility for your fate.”
― Liz Phair, Horror Stories: A Memoir

“It’s like Camus says in The Plague, that there’s an absurdity to the universe, and you can either do nothing or continue to push to do the best you can. And the best you can do is just do the decent thing. There’s no payoff. The good people of the world are those who, in spite of there being no payoff, do the decent thing anyway. That’s what being human is. That’s the example of a human, being.”
― Liz Phair, Horror Stories

“I wonder why nobody ever gets into a car crash traveling in the left lane. It still seems incredible to me that all these drivers of average ability pull off semidifficult maneuvers every day and nothing goes wrong. Millions of people manage to successfully navigate to their destinations without dying,”
― Liz Phair, Horror Stories

“Can you describe someone’s looks without picturing the way they move, the sound of their voice, or their personality?”
― Liz Phair, Horror Stories

“What exactly are we evaluating when we think about our looks? Is it what’s actually there or how people respond to us that shapes our opinion of ourselves?”
― Liz Phair, Horror Stories

“You can change your looks easily if you have the right attitude, but bad patterns of behavior are like weeds: Once they take root, they are incredibly hard to eradicate.”
― Liz Phair, Horror Stories

“That’s the thing they never tell you about looks. They matter; of course they do. But they weigh nothing compared to actions.”
― Liz Phair, Horror Stories

“My makeup, which was so striking in the photographs, is a frightening mess in natural daylight, caked on and settling into the creases.”
― Liz Phair, Horror Stories

“Though no one would mistake me for a model, I walk a little taller, with a little more swagger, exhilarated to have a secret occupation that makes me interesting.”
― Liz Phair, Horror Stories

“That’s the hardest part about being your own product: It’s difficult to know what’s you and what isn’t.”
― Liz Phair, Horror Stories

“The photographer is sharing her favorite shots of the day with her husband, the two of them huddled together in a touching pose of intimacy.”
― Liz Phair, Horror Stories

“The show’s over, the illusion undone.”
― Liz Phair, Horror Stories

“secret chamber that we would later find out had once been used to hide men and women fleeing slavery.”
― Liz Phair, Horror Stories

“Do my thoughts make any difference? Does prayer make a difference? Can powerful intentions start a separate timeline of events in another dimension of reality? Are we linked now because of our emotional intersection?”
― Liz Phair, Horror Stories

“There’s something relentless about hindsight. It chips away at the unimportant details, leaving just the guilt, just the unfinished business.”
― Liz Phair, Horror Stories

“Spread out a towel, lie down, and bleach beneath the not-done, the not-said, the not-redeemed.”
― Liz Phair, Horror Stories

“I’ve been carrying around for decades the tiny, toxic shards of souls I’ve casually shattered.”
― Liz Phair, Horror Stories

“We can be monsters, we human beings, in the most offhand and cavalier ways.”
― Liz Phair, Horror Stories

“Trying to look like I knew what I was doing was my constant priority.”
― Liz Phair, Horror Stories

“Fear is an exhausting emotion,”
― Liz Phair, Horror Stories

“Deep beneath our workaday world, we are all dreaming.”
― Liz Phair, Horror Stories

“Once your eyes adjust, you’ll see that monsters are only mirrors.”
― Liz Phair, Horror Stories

“Our flaws and our failures make us relatable, not unlovable.”
― Liz Phair, Horror Stories

“It’s hard to tell the truth about ourselves. It opens us up to being judged and rejected. We’re afraid we will be defined by our worst decisions instead of our best. Our impulse is always to hide the evidence, blame someone else, put the things we feel guilty about or that were traumatizing behind us and act like everything is fine. But that robs us of the opportunity to really know and care about one another. It closes a door that could lead to someone else’s heart.”
― Liz Phair, Horror Stories

“How foolish we feel in those rare instances when the fog dissipates, the path is clear, and we see our hapless footprints wandering around all over the place. Those are the resolute moments, the sober morning-after reflections when we plant our feet facing in the direction we wish to go and vow never to deviate from honesty, empathy, and inspiration.”
― Liz Phair, Horror Stories

“We spend so much time hiding what we’re ashamed of, denying what we’re wounded by, and portraying ourselves as competent, successful individuals that we don’t always realize where and when we’ve gone missing.”
― Liz Phair, Horror Stories

“I’d draw out the poison of thinking that faults and failures make someone unworthy, and instead I’d reveal how bad decisions are just equal and opposite manifestations of great gifts and abilities.”
― Liz Phair, Horror Stories