Ali Stroker Quotes

#1. Mama tied a blindfold over my eyes. The next thing I felt my flesh was being cut away. I heard the blade sawing back and forth through my skin. The pain between my legs was so intense I wished I would die.

Waris Dirie

#2. Trauma silences a person. It shatters your identity, and along with it, much of what you thought you knew.

Sandra Lee Dennis

#3. They sat in the companionable awkwardness caused by knowing extremely private things about each other that had never been directly confided.

Jodi Picoult

#4. I want people to see that the cosmic perspective is simultaneously honest about the universe we live in and uplifting, when we realize how far we have come and how wonderful is this world of ours.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#5. You are good but you are too emotional
the way to whip life is to quietly frame the agony,study it and put it to sleep in the abstract.
is there anything less abstract
than dying everyday and
on the last day?

Charles Bukowski

#6. Sometimes for an afternoon snack, I'll get some tortilla chips and half an avocado, and I'll just eat that like guacamole.

Kyle MacLachlan

#7. I am the soul in limbo.

Andre Breton

#8. But the expectation of the self, to be informed in its nothingness
if only I can get out of this old place and into the right new place, I can become a new person
places a heavy burden on travel.

Walker Percy

#9. Optimism wasn't always a shield against the worst of it, and acceptance wasn't always enough.

Nora Roberts

#10. The thing is I write to music, so every script I have has its own playlist. Music just opens me up to the emotions that I'm writing. It's just a pretty cool thing.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

#11. The wonderful thing about food is you get three votes a day. Every one of them has the potential to change the world.

Michael Pollan