I Don't Want to Be Crazy
Samantha Schutz
Top 10 Best Quotes
“I crave broken men. When I try to save other people am I trying to save myself? Am I covering up for my lack of strength by putting people back together? I am tired. I want someone to save me - build an intricate web and place it beneath me in case I fall.”
“I am not happy. I am not unhappy. I am frozen somewhere in the middle that is so much worse. I am nowhere. Nothing is happening and I am getting more and more sad.”
“I want things so bad that I force them, push them until they tear.”
“Where you are and what you are doing is something you have done dozens of times before without any problems Recognize that you are going to get out of this that you always get out of this that you are going to live that you won't go crazy I am telling you that you will live, because you always live, because you are strong and beautiful.”
“I am the cure and the disease.”
“Even the pigeons are dancing, kissing, going in circles, mounting each other. Paris is the city of love, even for the birds.”
“I am trying to find myself in all of the chaos, find something that I can call me inside the screams and inside the 'you shoulds' and 'you have to bes.”
“When I try to save other people am I trying to save myself? Am I covering up for my lack of strength by putting people back together?”
“I can't believe no one else can hear I am screaming inside my head. Things are moving too fast. I am going to die. I am going to die. I am going to die. My hands are shaking. I try to squeeze them, try to make it stop, but now my fists are shaking, and this shaking is working it's way through me. It must look like I am having a fit. I want to let the scream out, but I think if I start, I'll never stop. It's not supposed to be like this. I am too young to die. I don't know how to make this end, and if it doesn't, I'll have to go to the hospital, be medicated, force-fed soft foods. I don't want to be that person. I am not that person. I am not. I am not.”
“I am fearful of romantic dinners, huge crowds, dusk - of normal things- afraid to be loved, the one thing I want most. Maybe it's because I don't think I deserve it because I am not that perfect little girl that I was supposed to be, well manicured and well groomed, because I have nervous breakdowns, and take pills, and keep moving on.”
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Book Keywords:
paris, love
