Still Life with Tornado
A.S. King
Top 10 Best Quotes
“The absence of violence is not love.”
“nothing about her pain is remotely original —and yet it still hurts”
“Pretty much nobody on Earth takes me seriously. And yet, on the inside I know there is something wrong enough that someone should be taking it seriously. Maybe it starts with me. Maybe I have to take it seriously first.”
“It's like I'm a little me inside the big me and I'm holding an umbrella and the rain is bullshit and I am the rain and I am the bullshit.”
“Even though I know that breaking your brain is the same as breaking your arm, I'm still ashamed that my brain is broken.”
“You can't change people with love. It doesn't work that way.”
“Then they fake smile at each other, but I’m starting to understand that smiling is really just another way of baring one’s teeth.”
“I'm sixteen years old and this is the main idea the adults in my life have given me. Whether it's seaweed in Mexico, missing art projects, or Dad shrugging, the message is clear: The older people get, the less they can do about things.”
“But who’s to say what’s stupid and what’s not stupid when your life falls apart? Some people fall apart over TV shows. Some people fall apart over a breakup. Some people fall apart over someone eating the last bowl of Apple Jacks. I fell apart because of the annual art show. No one noticed I was falling apart before then. I”
“I am the barrier between the bullshit that falls from the sky and the humans who do not want bullshit on their pantsuits. In eight days of riding around, that's what I've discovered. It's raining bullshit. Probably all the time.”
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Book Keywords:
mental-health-stigma, love, mental-health, self-love, wisdom
