Nowhere Girl Quotes

“How much time we waste in life, sliding around the truth, when the truth is that anyone worth having will never leave you because of it”
― Cheryl Diamond, Nowhere Girl: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood

“I've noticed people often complain about the monotony of life. How sometimes very day is just like the last and they all blend together. Do they know how lucky they are? But maybe that's the problem with a smooth pleasant routine, you begin taking it for granted.”
― Cheryl Diamond, Nowhere Girl: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood

“But when a person self-destructs, the shrapnel will tear your skin, too, if you're the one standing resolutely by their side.”
― Cheryl Diamond, Nowhere Girl: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood

“The most important things, I think we're sure of them quite early. Then life comes at us, and we get confused, we let ourselves be told that faith is naivete, that dreams are for children. Often, we are told this because it's easier to mold a person who has lost hope.”
― Cheryl Diamond, Nowhere Girl: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood

“Life will unfold in its own way, in its own time; we have little say in the adventure. We only have power over what we learn from our story, what we decide to make of it. The difference between heaven and hell is simple: It’s not what happens to us, it’s not what other people do—it’s what we choose to hold on to.”
― Cheryl Diamond, Nowhere Girl: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood

“They are the same. They were just wearing different masks.”
― Cheryl Diamond, Nowhere Girl: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood

“During the years when I was so tortured, so sad, it was because I believed everything was about me. That something within myself—something unlovable—was causing people to want to inflict pain on me, to betray or abandon me. But if the universe has a center, I’m not it. The people in my family had deep issues and possible mental illnesses, and I happened to be there. In the crossfire.”
― Cheryl Diamond, Nowhere Girl: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood

“It's remembering who we were, and the way we believed, before anyone tried to strip our faith.”
― Cheryl Diamond, Nowhere Girl: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood

“Life seems to be a long process of shaking up our convictions.”
― Cheryl Diamond, Nowhere Girl: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood

“Pyktis ir keršto troškimas tokie pavojingi - jie visiems laikams suriša tave būtent su tais žmonėmis ir prisiminimais, nuo kurių nori pabėgti.”
― Cheryl Diamond, Nowhere Girl: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood

“Dad's moods are so difficult to predict. They rarely seem based on actual events but instead on some delicate inner switch that one day makes him laugh off the worst of risks and on another lash at you for the smallest of mistakes.”
― Cheryl Diamond, Nowhere Girl: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood

“Life is sometimes, both the beauty and the pain, unbearable. It’s just too much. And we begin to cast around for a way to hammer some certainty into it. It is tempting to live a life where you never get involved enough to get hurt, where you’re always the one to do the leaving. But obsessively seeking to avoid pain, to avoid mistakes, may be one of the most dangerous things we can do.”
― Cheryl Diamond, Nowhere Girl: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood

“So I don’t forgive them, or not. Because I finally see it had nothing to do with me. It is something I lived through, it is the beginning I was dealt, for better or worse. This will not be my whole story. I have the ability, both scary and liberating, to shape the rest of my life. To create a sequel that is, for once, better than the idea from which it was born.”
― Cheryl Diamond, Nowhere Girl: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood

“How much time we waste in life, sliding around the truth, when the truth is that anyone worth having will never leave you because of it.”
― Cheryl Diamond, Nowhere Girl: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood

“Of course my family did not give me just one name to live up to, they gave me three [not sure of spelling - Harbudgen, Kelsa, Nanook] Song of God, Pure, Truth. It's not just a name, it's everything I know we stand for. Honor our principles. Search for truth. And love each other no matter what may come.”
― Cheryl Diamond, Nowhere Girl: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood