“I was so involved in my boy-rhythms that I never came to grips with the fact that I was a girl. I was twelve years old when my mother took me inside and said, "You can't be outside wrestling without a T-shirt on." It was a trauma.”
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“In adolescence she thought it was too early to choose, now in youth she was convinced it was too late to change.”
“Once in a mental hospital, a person grows used to the the freedom that exists in the world of insanity and becomes addicted to it.”
“I am always amazed that so many people are concerned with wanting to be what they are not;What is the point of making yourself look ridiculous? You don't always have to pretend to be strong,there is no need to prove all the time that everything is going well,you shouldn't be concerned about what other people are thinking. Cry if you need to,it's good to cry out all your tears,because only then you will be able to smile again.”
“When I took the pills, I wanted to kill someone I hated. I didn't know that other Veronikas existed inside me, Veronikas that I could love.”
“You shouldn't have asked," I said. "Love doesn't ask many questions, because if we stop to think we become fearful. It's an inexplicable fear; it's difficult even to describe it. Maybe it's the fear of being scorned, of not being accepted, or of breaking the spell. It's ridiculous, but that's the way it is. That's why you don't ask-you act. As you've said many times, you have to take risks.”
“Woe is me! The winged words on which my soul would pierce Into the heights of love's rare universe, Are chains of lead around its flight of fire-- I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire.”
“Forget the dead, the past? O yet there are ghosts that may take revenge for it, memories that make the heart a tomb, regrets which gild thro’ the spirit’s gloom, and with ghastly whispers tell that joy, once lost, is pain.”
“There are certain things I just don't talk about - there are certain things that are private.”
“It's human to have a secret, but it's just as human to reveal it sooner or later.”
“I justified it in so many ways. I had a very, very long and difficult struggle with my sexuality.”
“You don't have to be emaciated or vomiting to be suffering. All people who live their lives on a diet are suffering.”
“Just accepting that vulnerability is part of the deal, I think, makes that part okay.”
“To get the stuff out of you, especially if what you're dealing with is yourself, requires you to open up and touch tender spots. You have to be anesthetized a little bit.”
“I have my own people that make my clothes, because it's hard for me to find stuff that fits.”
“it's perfectly possible to hate one's fat and to love one's body at the same time.”
“To surrender one's vulnerable body to water has always seemed to me a limpid act of will that has no coutnerpart or equal, unless it is sex.”
“I don't look like who I am.”
“If I have one vice and I can call it nothing else it is not able to say 'no'.”
“Time elaborately thrown away.”