Everything You Want Me to Be
Mindy Mejia
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Every book changes you in some way, whether it’s your perspective on the world or how you define yourself in relation to the world.”
“MOST PEOPLE think acting is make-believe. Like it’s a big game where people put on costumes and feign kisses or stab wounds and then pretend to gasp and die. They think it’s a show. They don’t understand that acting is becoming someone else, changing your thoughts and needs until you don’t remember your own anymore. You let the other person invade everything you are and then you turn yourself inside out, spilling their identity onto the stage like a kind of bloodletting.”
“Evil is simple. It's a child's explanation for why people do bad things. The truth is always more complicated and worth pursuing.”
“You can’t live your life acting for other people. Other people will just use you up. You have to know yourself and figure out what you want. I can’t do that for you. Nobody can.”
“Ordinary men commit extraordinary evil all the time. Trust me.”
“He said anything worth doing should scare you a little, and that some of the greatest stories began with a journey.”
“silence ends an argument quicker than words.”
“They could be gone for years, healed over and laid to rest, and then out of nowhere the gun smoke stung my eyes, the wet jungle invaded my nose, and I had to bury them all over again. You could leave a war, but it never left you.”
“Ordinary men commit extraordinary evil all the time.”
“women walking down city sidewalks with little rat dogs”
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Book Keywords:
ptsd, war, evil, acting, crime, new-experiences, taking-chances, ordinary-men, betrayal
