Mairie De Lille Quotes & Sayings

When faced with choosing between attributing their pain to "being crazy" and having had abusive parents, clients will choose "crazy" most of the time. Dora, a 38-year-old, was profoundly abused by multiple family perpetrators and has grappled with cutting and eating disordered behaviors for most of her life. She poignantly echoed this dilemma in her therapy:
I hate it when we talk about my family as "dysfunctional" or "abusive." Think about what you are asking me to accept - that my parents didn't love me, care about me, or protect me. If I have to choose between "being abused" or "being sick and crazy," it's less painful to see myself as nuts than to imagine my parents as evil. — Lisa Ferentz

"Glorious, stirring sight!" murmured Toad ... "The poetry of motion! The real way to travel! The only way to travel! Here today - in next week tomorrow! Villages skipped, towns and cities jumped- always somebody else's horizons! O bliss! O poop-poop! O my! O my!" — Kenneth Grahame

It wasn't simply about the sex any longer, wasn't simply about assuaging the skin hunger that haunted them both. It was about saying good-bye to a dream that had never had a chance. — Nalini Singh

The Henty books provide training in history and in many of the highest aspects of human character ... American young people should read not a few Henty books, but all 99 of them. — Arthur B. Robinson

Freedom and the dignity of the individual have been more available and assured here than in any other place on earth. The price for this freedom at times has been high, but we have never been unwilling to pay the price. — Ronald Reagan

The soul that companies with virtue is like an ever-flowing source. It is a pure, clear, and wholesome draught, sweet, rich and generous of its store, that injures not, neither destroys. — Epictetus

The earth has grown a nervous system, and it's us. — Daniel Dennett

Life is only a brief stop on the road to eternity. Our loved ones, acquaintances, and strangers pass away before our very eyes on a daily basis. Yet each of us carries on with our lives as if we will live forever. This is merely an illusion; of course, as it is an inevitable consequence of life that each of us must die. — Jeff W. Horton

The streets of Vienna are paved with culture, the streets of other cities with asphalt. — Karl Kraus

He's splitting me open, I thought. He'll break me and then I'll die. — Wally Lamb

I'm always amazed by people and their sleep. I wouldn't ever sleep if I didn't have to. — Jennifer Niven

If the story you're telling, is the story you're telling, you're in deep shit. — Robert McKee

Lev Leokov was an open book. I only needed to discover the language in which his pages were written. — Belle Aurora

but underneath that lurked horrors, like a syphilitic dick hidden under a blanket. — Kevin Hearne

I mean, seriously, is a baby doll dress for the breastless? I don't know. — Lili St. Crow