"Talking to a therapist, I thought, was like taking your clothes off and then taking your skin off, and then having the other person say, "Would you mind opening up your rib cage so that we can start?"

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Source : Julie Schumacher (2008). “Black Box”, p.58, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

Julie Schumacher

#Talking Quotes #Opening Up Quotes #Clothes Quotes

“It was not the goal that really concerned us, the journey was the thing. Who ever reaches any goal? From what journey can we return? We know of the poverty about us, of the work and worry, but we know of a degree of freedom, of a stunted beauty. We have warm open days and sunshine in Carolina. Much is denied us. But we have, we have. And an attitude is more powerful than any circumstance.”
“You have a great road map when you play somebody that exists. That's the amazing thing. But then you have great limitations from that road map. It's hard to deviate from it creatively as an actor. It's like, "Oh wait, he'd never do that."”
“When I was a child I had a crush on Abraham Lincoln. Why I would choose to reveal this, I know not.”
“I observe, I write, I try not to remember the life that I didn't want to loose but lost and have to remember, being here fills my heart with so much joy, even if the joy isn't mine, and at the end of the day I fill the suitcase with old news.”
“FCU's PLS discovery has quickly become one of the most exciting stories in the uranium sector.”
“What does so-called success or failure matter if only you have succeeded in doing the thing you set out to do. The DOING is all that really counts.”
“I only wish Chet Atkins could be here for this joyous occasion.”
“Don't let anyone make you feel that you don't deserve the good things that happen in your life”

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