Trauma is survivable, but often not much more. It kills you while allowing you to still live. James Frey More Quotes by James Frey More Quotes From James Frey And loss of control is always the source of fear. It is also, however, always the source of change. James Frey source loss The wounds that never heal can only be mourned alone. James Frey million-little-pieces get-well heal When I see you, the World stops. It stops and all that exists for me is you and my eyes staring at you. There's nothing else. No noise, no other people, no thoughts or worries, no yesterday, no tomorrow. The World just stops, and it is a beautiful place, and there is only you. James Frey eye yesterday beautiful I close my eyes and I take a deep breath and I think about my life and how I ended up this way. I think about the ruin, devastation and wreckage I have caused to myself and to others. I think about self-hatred and self-loathing. I think about how and why and what happened and the thoughts come easily, but the answers don't. James Frey eye self thinking Sometimes skulls are thick. Sometimes hearts are vacant. Sometimes words don't work. James Frey hipster skulls heart About life: "It is not complicated unless I make it so. It is not difficult unless I allow it to be. A second is no more than a second, a minute no more than a minute, a day no more than a day. They pass. All things and all time will pass. Don't force or fear, don't control or lose control. Don't fight and don't stop fighting. Embrace and endure. If you embrace, you will endure. James Frey embrace fighting complicated And as ridiculous as it may sound, sometimes all any of us needs in life is for someone to hold our hand and walk next to us. James Frey sound hands needs Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don't think you can, hold on. James Frey strength inspiring inspirational When something is staring you in the face in your life and you see it with your own two eyes and feel it within your heart only a fool doesn't believe it to be true. James Frey eye heart believe Let things be, let yourself be, let everything be and accept it as it is. Nothing more. Nothing less. James Frey million-little-pieces accepting Some people think memoirs should be held to a perfect journalistic standard. Some people don't. Obviously I don't. My goal was never to create or to write a perfect journalistic standard of my life. It was always to be as literature. James Frey writing people thinking The afternoon and the early evening slide by in a lidded daze where the ability to think in any identifiable way disappears and where every moment seems to be an eternity. James Frey daze afternoon thinking Live and let live, do not judge, take life as it comes and deal with it, everything will be okay. James Frey live-and-let-live okay judging I always wanted to be the outlaw. And that's to a certain extent how I've lived. James Frey outlaw certain wanted I have a great amount of confidence and faith in my abilities to write. There are other areas of my life where I'm not as confident, and have not as much faith, but when it comes down to writing and working, I don't worry about it. I trust myself to get it right. James Frey trust-myself worry writing There are no words and there is no singing, but the music has a voice. It is an old voice and a deep voice, like the stump of a sweet cigar or a shoe with a hole. It is a voice that has lived and lives, with sorrow and shame, ecstasy and bliss, joy and pain, redemption and damnation. It is a voice with love and without love. I like the voice, and though I can't talk to it, I like the way it talks to me. It says it is all the same, Young Man. Take it and let it be. James Frey pain sweet men I felt like I had lost something. But not something silly, like my keys or my gum; more like my arm or my foot, something that really mattered. Like something that I could live without, but would make life much harder if it were missing. And life is hard enough. Life is hard enough with everything we're given. James Frey keys feet silly ...we got this gift of life and we got it one time and we gonna get hurt in it and be hurt going through it and the only thing that'll make that hurt better or hurt less is love. James Frey gifts-of-life one-time hurt This Girl with nothing but her own strength and a desire to be free. With nothing but a beating heart that is scared to be alone. With nothing but clear blue eyes that see through me and understand me. With nothing but open arms ready to receive me. To stand by me. To walk with me. To love me. I love her. Lilly. The Girl with nothing and everything. Lilly. I love her. A tear appears. She smiles. She leans forward kisses my lips softly kisses me and as our lips touch barely touch she whispers. I love you too, James. Our lips barely touching she whispers. I love you. Whispers. I love you. James Frey girl love-you heart Fear, he said, ran all of our lives. Fear, he said, after religion, was the most destructive force in the world. James Frey force said world
