Merri Quotes & Sayings

You can chase love. If you are lucky enough to catch it ... is it really yours? — Brian MacLearn

Okay. I picked up a movie to watch tonight. You can watch it with me if you like. It's a chick movie. Merri Lee said that means girls like it, not that there are small birds in it. — Anne Bishop

I wade through the rush of neglect and loss and sadness pouring through a hole in my hull. — Merri Lisa Johnson

I longed to stabilize my core identity and to withstand the pressure of other people's words, behaviors, moods, and perceptions. I wanted to be less easily thrown. — Merri Lisa Johnson

Our bodies made us shiver in fear and disgust. We looked in the mirror and prepared ourselves to be horrified. — Merri Lisa Johnson

I can feel the sensation (it burns) of being called crazy when you feel wounded and desperate. — Merri Lisa Johnson

I worked through memories like weeping wounds. I wrote tedious accounts of petty conflicts and read them aloud to people. I removed layer after layer of rot. — Merri Lisa Johnson

Her life is a wrecked boat torn apart for kindling and set ablaze to send a message to the sky from a deserted beach. From a distance the words spell SAVE ME. The closer the sign the clearer the statement. Turns out it says FUCK YOU. — Merri Lisa Johnson

I didn't have anything to say to him, but I looked for him all the same. — Kyung-Sook Shin

My life story is structured by reckless reenactments of panic and flight. — Merri Lisa Johnson

Affairs with unavailable people are a heroin high before nausea hits. Like smack they are destined to disappoint.
They begin with magic. Then the chasing after magic.
And finally the MOURNING FOR MAGIC. — Merri Lisa Johnson

I know insecurity is unattractive. I hate this side of me.
I don't really hate this side of me.
I think other people will hate it so I hate it preemptively to ward off the unbearable feeling of having my shortcomings pointed out by other people. I want to get there before anyone else and stake my claim on hating my jealousy so no one else can. — Merri Lisa Johnson

It is an adventure called Bertie's Botheration. A haunting, gothic tale of ... " She stopped for the dowager was frantically gesturing to her heart and grinning.
"You have read it! It is my favourite book. Ah, I see you love it too. Yes ... yes, I understand you could never tell anyone that it is your favourite. Not lofty enough. I keep a few acceptable names in my head every time someone asks me what my favourite book is, but one does not really confess what book they actually really like and have read over and over ... — Anya Wylde

The first card was a beautifully rendered but terrifying representation of what Henry guessed was one of the Elders' forms. Next was half a Wolf cookie. Last was a card that had a simple drawing of a smiley face. "That is sooooo wrong," Merri Lee said, shuddering. "Yes, it is." Henry picked — Anne Bishop

Henry studied Merri Lee, then Meg. "Humans don't like mice?" "Not in the building!" Meg said. "And not around food," Merri Lee added. The three terra indigene looked baffled. "But it's fresh meat," the brown-haired woman finally said. — Anne Bishop

I thieve love. I beg for it. People want what they cannot have. — Merri Lisa Johnson

This is Ruthie Stuart, Officer Kowalski's mate. She will show your pups around the Market Square," Simon said.
Sarah giggled. Robert said, "We're not pups; we're kids."
Simon looked at Robert and Sarah, then at Ruthie.
Kids. He'd heard Merri Lee say something about when she was a kid. But the word didn't apply to her now because she was an adult, so it had never occurred to him that, maybe, humans had a little shifter ability that they outgrew as they matured. When she had said kid, maybe she had meant kid?
He eyed Robert and Sarah with more interest. "Little humans can shift into young goats? — Anne Bishop

Sweet like syrup of ipecac, she leaves my system with my guts in her hands. — Merri Lisa Johnson

There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation. — Eugene Ionesco

If you are an investor, I hope that you will stay with me for three, four, ten years. But if you ask me to make profits in ways that I have to change my allure, I won't do that. I won't lose my identity. — Brunello Cucinelli

I bored myself to tears with the daytime television drama of confrontation (I've been wronged!). I winced at sluggish morning half-memories of wearing wrongness like a lampshade on my head (I'm mentally ill!). — Merri Lisa Johnson

A personality disorder is not the foreign presence of demonic possession or a cancerous cluster of cells spreading among the internal organs. It is a pattern of cognition and reaction that impares the capacity to be productive, happy and generally at ease. It is a fractured sense of self giving way to the weight of stressful interpersonal dynamics. — Merri Lisa Johnson

Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men — George S. Patton Jr.

Merri-Lee ripped herself away and scampered for her YSL heels. She slid — Lisi Harrison

I don't know why, precisely. I believe we were in need of a change. We needed to do things for ourselves. Does that make any sense? To break your own ground and know it's yours, free and clear. Nothing taken for granted. — Eowyn Ivey

In a sense, he thought, all we consist of is memories. Our personalities are constructed from memories, our lives are organized around memories, our cultures are built upon the foundation of shared memories that we call history and science. — Michael Crichton

It isn't any particular person I want to lie down with and make my own. It isn't anybody at all. It is the feeling of being taken care of that I want to pin down and rock my hips against. Sling a leg across it and fall asleep.
This longing for body comfort and security is familiar as my own face.
The need is urgent.
The need makes me stupid. — Merri Lisa Johnson