Over Her Dead Body Quotes

“All cruelty springs from weakness. —Lucius Annaeus Seneca”
― Susan Walter, Over Her Dead Body

“provide energy on the days the sun could not. The batteries were old”
― Susan Walter, Over Her Dead Body

“I had always been intrigued by the idea that you get what you believe you deserve—that positive thoughts bring positive outcomes.”
― Susan Walter, Over Her Dead Body

“I have not failed, I’ve just found ten thousand ways that don’t work.” (Thomas Edison); “You can win a lot in life just by being the last one to give up.” (James Clear); “Failure is success in progress.” (Albert Einstein). No”
― Susan Walter, Over Her Dead Body

“Without adversity there is no triumphant comeback,”
― Susan Walter, Over Her Dead Body

“It’s well known by psychologists and anyone with a beating heart that the pain of losing something you’re told is already yours is far greater than the pain of not getting something you wish for in the abstract.”
― Susan Walter, Over Her Dead Body

“Dogs are so easy to please—let them out when they’re in, and in when they’re out, and they’ll reward you with sloppy, wet kisses for days.”
― Susan Walter, Over Her Dead Body

“If not, there was always whiskey.”
― Susan Walter, Over Her Dead Body

“I can’t stand people who jabber on their phones in supermarkets, blocking your access to the butter, then getting all self-important when you interrupt to ask them to move”
― Susan Walter, Over Her Dead Body

“I thought about what it meant to no longer have parents. There was no longer anyone who always knew my whereabouts. No one to tell when I was leaving town, no one to call when I got home. There was no one to ask for advice (Should I get the travel insurance/anesthesia with my root canal/cheese on my Whopper?). People who don’t have parents—even shitty ones—don’t have anyone to corroborate their earliest memories, call them on their bullshit, care, or even notice, if they are royally screwing up their lives. Before I had someone to blame for my missteps. Now the buck stopped with me.”
― Susan Walter, Over Her Dead Body

“I hated when people said I was talented. At this point I would have much preferred they told me that I sucked, that I should give it up, go back to school, find a new career.”
― Susan Walter, Over Her Dead Body

“Walking into one’s so-called “destiny” was the ability to see disruptions not as obstacles, but as road signs, then follow them where they led.”
― Susan Walter, Over Her Dead Body

“I would get once my career took off, but it was the first time in a long time seeing my aging MINI Cooper parked between two luxury cars didn’t bum me out.”
― Susan Walter, Over Her Dead Body

“Movie people refer to that moment in the script when the main character hits rock bottom as the act two crisis. Romeo is dead. Jaws just ate the captain and first mate, and the killer shark is circling your sinking boat. In the last forty-eight hours, I’d lost a potential boyfriend, a dream casting, and the roommate who had supported me both emotionally and financially for the last seven years. If this wasn’t my personal act two crisis, I didn’t know what was. The only question was whether the hero in my narrative was going to rise up and kill that shark, or succumb to defeat like poor jilted Juliet.”
― Susan Walter, Over Her Dead Body

“It’s hard to leave a dream behind if you don’t have a new one to move toward.”
― Susan Walter, Over Her Dead Body

“Upheaval was a fact of life. You could either be defeated by it or take advantage. Walking into one’s so-called “destiny” was the ability to see disruptions not as obstacles, but as road signs, then follow them where they led.”
― Susan Walter, Over Her Dead Body

“Not being financially strapped was empowering. It’s a lot easier to ask for something if you’re in a position to walk away if they say no.”
― Susan Walter, Over Her Dead Body

“We often say that life imitates art, but sometimes, art also infiltrates life.”
― Susan Walter, Over Her Dead Body

“We often say that life imitates art, but sometimes, art also infiltrates life. People watch a movie about a dramatic comeback (Rocky)”
― Susan Walter, Over Her Dead Body