Corey Ann Haydu Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Corey Ann Haydu
It's strange how in the craziest moments you reach for normal things like handshakes and formal introductions. — Corey Ann Haydu
I've always liked the romance of sitting on a bench that so many other people sat on before me. — Corey Ann Haydu
Sometimes it's a comfort to tell the same stories over and over; sometimes it's a torture — Corey Ann Haydu
Even when everything hurts, even when other cities are exploding and people we love are disappearing, there's still space for sweet things. — Corey Ann Haydu
On our own, we'd look totally normal. Together, we're something else. Together, we're special. — Corey Ann Haydu
Sleep comes, no matter how deep the sadness cuts. It's like a gift from the universe. — Corey Ann Haydu
Torture: knowing something makes no sense, but doing it anyways. — Corey Ann Haydu
I try Dr. Pat's breathing exercises but they're not working because my entire mind is focused on keeping myself glued to the couch. I don't want to move any closer to the bathroom just in case. But I hate myself for the thought. I know it's not right or normal. I know I'm not simply some cute quirky girl like Beck says, and every moment I can't get off the couch is a moment that makes me one level crazier. That heavy, pre-crying feeling floods my sinuses and I drop my head from the weight of it. Cover my face with my hands long enough to get out a cry or two. Because there is nothing, nothing worse than not being able to undo the crazy thoughts. I ask them to leave, but they won't. I try to ignore them, but the only thing that works is giving in to them.
Torture: knowing something makes no sense, doing it anyway. — Corey Ann Haydu
Like Christmas trees and Easter egg hunts and the block party on the last day of summer, we do things because traditions feel cozy and safe. — Corey Ann Haydu
I guess I wonder what it would be like, to be living their live instead of mine. — Corey Ann Haydu
I close my eyes and make a wish that I'll stop having OCD so that I can be a decent friend again. If I want it badly enough, hopefully it will come true. — Corey Ann Haydu
People do crazy things after a big loss. — Corey Ann Haydu
Love is insanity, apparently. — Corey Ann Haydu
We're all a little broken, on the sidewalk. On the street. In the city. — Corey Ann Haydu
Traditions don't come out of nowhere. They come from something sacred and strange. — Corey Ann Haydu
If something is provided it is because a need has opened up. — Corey Ann Haydu
Even the worst things about Devonairre Street are better than the rest of the city. — Corey Ann Haydu
How could you live somewhere so icy cold and imposing, so clearly in conflict with the rest of the city, the rest of the human population, and stay in love? As far as I can tell, love takes place in townhouses and cozy cottages and cramped studio apartments and rundown guest houses. This place might as well be an office building or a spaceship. — Corey Ann Haydu
If I didn't know better, I'd think I suffer from some sort of Tourette's-autism hybrid, but Dr. Pat insists I can control the impulse to say whatever pops into my head. That it's, like, a defensive mechanism, not a biological imperative. Therapists think everything is a defense mechanism. Just my thinking that in my head, right now, is a defense mechanism. — Corey Ann Haydu
Feelings are like blankets, covering you up so you can't see clearly, or like mazes you can too easily get lost inside. I am terrified of getting lost. — Corey Ann Haydu
It feels like giving up.
It feels like falling into bed after an all-night rave.
It feels that right.
It's surrender. It's that thing I have been searching for. — Corey Ann Haydu
I think of everything and I'm pretty sure if I could use my organizational skills for something else, like wildlife survival kits or preparing people for nuclear warfare, I'd be a millionaire. Or at the very least actually a useful human being. — Corey Ann Haydu
Carrying all of these thoughts is downright heavy. — Corey Ann Haydu
The human mind is a complicated place ... We hold on to things, images, words, ideas, histories that we don't even know we're holding on to. — Corey Ann Haydu
We have to give up so many things when the people we love die. So we hang on to other familiar things. — Corey Ann Haydu
It's like, I'm scared and there're a lot of ugly things, but I'd rather be shipwrecked on this lovely island than safe in a sad, gray cell. — Corey Ann Haydu
We don't smile, but we something. We something. It hurts, the way a deep connection to someone who isn't yours sometimes does. — Corey Ann Haydu
Therapists. Always asking the same questions over and over in slightly different ways. They are, like, the Ultimate Thesauruses. — Corey Ann Haydu
That's the thing about anxiety: It's a real time suck. — Corey Ann Haydu
I am a vacation. I am the Caribbean, and a fruity drink and a sunburn and a break from real life. But I am not real life. No one lives in the Caribbean. No one wants a fruity drink every day. I'd rather be water: necessary. — Corey Ann Haydu
Memories are quiet things. — Corey Ann Haydu
I like how love lets everyone in. — Corey Ann Haydu
It sounds like love just sort of happens, whether you want it to or not, whether you're married or not. — Corey Ann Haydu