"I had always turned to books, to knowledge, to help me get through everything in my lifeâ€”and, sometimes, to escape it. But grief was a journey through a forest of razor blades. I walked through every painful inch of itâ€”no shortcuts and no anesthesia."

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Source : Michele Bardsley (2007). “Don't Talk Back To Your Vampire”, p.99, Penguin

Michele Bardsley

#Grief Quotes #Book Quotes #Journey Quotes

“The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.”
“After all, if it comes to all that, there is really neither Ogun or Jesus! There are only mystified forms of our own consciousness.”
“I'm just as famous as my mentor... but that's still the boss don't get sent for”
“There's no grand excellence to it. In my experience it was just almost the gulaggy boringness of it that'll kill you. You're just in this murk. And you're with other humans, but you lose all your human skills and it's just like you're in this plastic bag and you can't quite connect with people. You lose your ability to transmit electricity or something, and to receive it.”
“They will come, not to paint the bay and the sea and the boots and the moors, but the warmth of the sun and the colour of the wind. A whole new concept. Such stimulation. Such vitality.”
“I am going to kill you," he hissed. She gulped. "Don't you want to lecture me first?" He stared at her with a heavy dose of stupefaction. "I take that back," he said with precisely clipped words. "First I am going to strangle you, and then I am going to kill you." "Here?" she asked doubtfully, looking around. "Won't my dead body look suspicious in the morning?”
“When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.”
“A thought is a thing as real as a cannonball.”

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