Good as Dead Quotes

“I hate when people dismiss the loss of an object because “it’s just a thing.” Things are important. They give comfort, shelter, style, identity. The sum total of your things is a road map of your life. They show where you’ve been, what you accomplished, who you loved, who loved you back. They are an expression of who you are. You can learn a lot about a person by their things. Material things are not what’s most important in life, of course!”
― Susan Walter, Good as Dead

“No, a home is not where your heart is, it’s where your effort is. It’s where you cook and eat and sleep and take pains to decorate. It’s where your memories are made and kept. It’s the photos on the mantel, the artwork on the walls, the blankets that you snuggle under, the trees and flowers that you plant and care for.”
― Susan Walter, Good as Dead

“If you can’t share your true self with someone, he once told me, you’re wasting your time.”
― Susan Walter, Good as Dead

“I suddenly realized, money can’t buy happiness. But it sure as shit can take it away.”
― Susan Walter, Good as Dead

“I do this silly thing when I have to make a tough decision. I flip a coin. Not to make the decision for me, but to see how I really feel. Heads,”
― Susan Walter, Good as Dead

“Writing is listening. It’s spiritual, in the sense that what I write is not of me, but rather flows through me. Flipping on my computer and greeting the blank page is an act of surrender—like saying a prayer—then humbly trusting in God’s sacred gift.”
― Susan Walter, Good as Dead

“Lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to the truth. —Fyodor”
― Susan Walter, Good as Dead

“But grief is something else. It’s not fog, it’s a storm. It rages inside you, tearing at your organs, pulling at your heart, lungs, skin, until they feel like they are going to rip wide open, exposing the most delicate parts of you, leaving them bloody and raw. Grief is savage, like love. I think maybe it’s the same thing as love? It’s love that is trapped inside you, a bird that can’t spread its wings so it flaps violently in protest until it’s exhausted and broken and utterly without hope.”
― Susan Walter, Good as Dead

“The stay-at-home mom had not evolved much beyond a wild animal—hunt, feed, rest, repeat. I was the busy lioness, in constant search of our next meal, while my male lion husband lounged in his cave.”
― Susan Walter, Good as Dead

“Acting is all about finding truth in made-up situations. I know that seems like a paradox, that’s why it’s hard. An actor’s job is to be completely honest while pretending to be someone else, in a place that’s dressed up to look like somewhere else, while telling a story that isn’t true.”
― Susan Walter, Good as Dead

“Grief is savage, like love. I think maybe it’s the same thing as love? It’s love that is trapped inside you, a bird that can’t spread its wings so it flaps violently in protest until it’s exhausted and broken and utterly without hope. No, grief is not sadness. It’s love that is desperately, urgently lost, an intense longing that pools in your lungs and balls up in your throat, so that when you try to talk it just pours out of you like sludge.”
― Susan Walter, Good as Dead

“Sadness is thick, like a heavy fog that clouds your vision so you can’t see any of the good things around you. But grief is something else. It’s not fog, it’s a storm. It rages inside you, tearing at your organs, pulling at your heart, lungs, skin, until they feel like they are going to rip wide open, exposing the most delicate parts of you, leaving them bloody and raw.”
― Susan Walter, Good as Dead

“I’m sorry for your loss? Why do people say that? The loss is the least of your problems. It’s the pain that follows we should be sorry for. A loss is an event, a moment in time. But grief is relentless—a simmering flame that can be stoked by a whisper. It burrows down in the deep recesses of your heart, then surges up like bile, filling your lungs until it hurts to breathe.”
― Susan Walter, Good as Dead

“Lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to the truth. —Fyodor Dostoevsky”
― Susan Walter, Good as Dead

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― Susan Walter, Good as Dead