Boy Meets Depression: Or Life Sucks and Then You Live
Kevin Breel
Top 10 Best Quotes
“People can only love you as much as they love themselves. Sometimes you have to live with that. Even when it hurts your heart, and even when it conflicts with your beliefs about what should be.”
“I just didn’t understand how sometimes people hurt us not because they want to but rather because they don’t know how to do anything else.”
“Good advice is hard to find and even harder to accept. Accept it anyway. One day, you’ll wake up and wish you had done it sooner.”
“I’d ask her, with all the seriousness a six-year-old can muster, who invented it. She said that no one “invented” school, that the government had created it as an infrastructure to help promote the education of children to become high-functioning adults and productive people. I took a little time to digest this, and then I asked her how I could get in touch with this “government” she spoke of.”
“I heard someone say one time that 'anger after five seconds is just pride.”
“The thing about people though, I think, is that our hearts tend to do a great job holding on to the horrible stuff and a horrible job holding on to the good. Or at least we're like that until we learn how to not be like that.”
“That's mostly what being a teenager is all about: growing through the unfair, awkward awfulness of life and pretending it's fun.”
“Tha's mostly what being a teenager is all about: growing through the unfair, awkward awfulness of life and pretending it's fun.”
“I wish there wasn't such a division between people who believe certain things and people who don't. It seems vastly hypocritical on both ends, these two groups of people both claiming to believe in good things and yet willing to do bad things to each other for disagreeing.”
“Everyone stumbles through it all the same; the main difference lies not in the lack of dysfunction but in the desire to be dishonest about it. Every family has problems, but only some let you see them. The rest just keep their chaos behind closed doors and out of conversation.”
Except where otherwise noted, all rights reserved to the author(s) of this book (mentioned above). The content of this page serves solely as promotional material for the aforementioned book. If you enjoyed these quotes, you can support the author(s) by acquiring the full book from Amazon.
Book Keywords:
emotions, division, conflict, interpersonal-relationships, pride, perspective, sadness, anger, beliefs
