Flora Rheta Schreiber Quotes & Sayings

You're never ready for what you have to do. You just do it. That makes you ready. — Flora Rheta Schreiber

Isolated, she managed somehow to feel free - albeit with a freedom that made her want to smash a hole in the very center of the universe. — Flora Rheta Schreiber

You knock yourself down. You don't think much of yourself. That's an uncomfortable feeling. So you project it on others and say, 'They don't like me. — Flora Rheta Schreiber

Do you know what it means to have a whole day ahead of you, a day you can call your own? — Flora Rheta Schreiber

Well, it would have been easier if it were put on. But the only ruse of which I'm guilty is to have pretended for so long before coming to you that nothing was wrong. Pretending that the personalities did not exist has now caused me to lose about two days. — Flora Rheta Schreiber

The anger. The terror. The feeling of entrapment. the profound distrust of people.The wistful, plaintive conviction that a window, a thing, was more important than she. These feelings and attitudes, expressed in the course of this hour, were symptoms of some profound disturbance. — Flora Rheta Schreiber

She'd abandoned the animal she loved as she herself had been abandoned repeatedly in the past by people who had claimed to love her. — Flora Rheta Schreiber

There is no past. Past is present when you carry it with you. — Flora Rheta Schreiber

I'm not fit to occupy space. Excuse me for living. — Flora Rheta Schreiber

God fearing and man hating. Sugar sugar. There was so much sugar in the way they pretended to treat each other that I suffered from diabetes of the soul. — Flora Rheta Schreiber

Will there never be an end that also has a beginning? Will there never be continuity bridging the awful void between now and some other time, a time in the future, a time in the past? — Flora Rheta Schreiber

I have no point in procrastinating any longer.. — Flora Rheta Schreiber

I have to force myself even to move my eyeballs. It's so easy just to stare. — Flora Rheta Schreiber

I want somebody to love, and I want somebody to love me. And nobody ever will. And that's why it hurts. Because it makes a difference. And when nobody cares, it makes you all mad inside and it makes you want to say things, tear up things, break things, get through the glass. — Flora Rheta Schreiber

When I wrote the previous letter, I had made up my mind I would show you how I could be very composed and cool and not need to ask you to listen to me nor to explain anything to me nor need any help. By telling you that all this about the multiple personalities was not really true but just put on, I could show, or so I thought, that I did not need you. Well, it would have been easier if it were put on. — Flora Rheta Schreiber

The neurologist had dismissed her case after a single visit, handing out an easy nostrum by telling her father that if she continued to write poetry, she would be all right. — Flora Rheta Schreiber

Willard married his father in female form. — Flora Rheta Schreiber

I realized how trapped I was by all the talk of the end of the world. — Flora Rheta Schreiber

It all made sense - terrible sense. The panic she had experienced in the warehouse district because of not knowing what had happened had been superseded at the newsstand by the even greater panic of partial knowledge. And now the torment of partly knowing had yielded to the infinitely greater terror of knowing precisely — Flora Rheta Schreiber

Vicky became more serious and her tone more reflective as she remarked, Life has so much pain that one needs a catharsis. I don't mean escape. You don't escape in books. On the contrary, they help you to realize yourself more fully. Mon Dieu, I'm glad I have them. When I find myself in a situation in which I'd rather not be - because of the perculiar circumstances of my life - I have this outlet. You may think me tres superieure but I'm not really, I am just what I am and live the way I like. — Flora Rheta Schreiber