Dancing with the Octopus Quotes

“the antidote to anxiety is not logic; the antidote to anxiety is noting it and letting it pass.”
― Debora Harding, Dancing with the Octopus: A Memoir of a Crime

“When empathy is not in the wiring, medication can’t help. She might be able to calibrate her behavior, but it doesn’t mean she has changed. And there’s nothing you’ve shared that suggests she is interested in facing the truth that would allow you to reconcile your relationship in an honest way.”
― Debora Harding, Dancing with the Octopus: A Memoir of a Crime

“Fate doesn’t arrive with a personal name, but we make our fates personal by our response to life’s most challenging events”
― Debora Harding, Dancing with the Octopus: The Telling of a True Crime

“But back then, that feeling—warm below the storm, in our little hideaway beneath the waves—was due entirely to Dad’s creative genius for comedy and faith in life.”
― Debora Harding, Dancing with the Octopus: A Memoir of a Crime

“The stanzas in these songs could have been a compilation tape for the drive, so appropriate were they to the situation, but no, it was just a classic rock station.”
― Debora Harding, Dancing with the Octopus: A Memoir of a Crime

“when Dad was home Mom was as different as a blackbird is to a vampire. Both have wings, but one sucks your blood.”
― Debora Harding, Dancing with the Octopus: A Memoir of a Crime

“would laugh so hard it sucked the oxygen out of any misery.”
― Debora Harding, Dancing with the Octopus: A Memoir of a Crime