Kerry Cohen Quotes

#1. Kerry Cohen's powerful, transfixing story will be familiar to many women, most of whom won't want to admit it. In this heartfelt and authentic memoir, Cohen transcends the pain and shame of a promiscuous past, and leaves readers with a sense of hope and triumph.

Janice Erlbaum

#2. I heard that the best way to get over someone is to get under someone else.

Kerry Cohen

#3. If your not willing to do the work that your instructing me to do. I will look down on you.

Jonathan Burkett

#4. Who was it said that following your heart is a good thing? It is pure egotism, a selfishness to conquer all.

Paula Hawkins

#5. Just because I don't let boys take over my whole life doesn't mean I don't like them.

Kerry Cohen Hoffmann

#6. Being alone feels more honest.

Kerry Cohen

#7. He began to fear whether in the presence of far greater events, all his acts would not fade into insignificance, just as a drop of rain disappears into the sea.

Henryk Sienkiewicz

#8. I don't want to be in pain anymore. I want to be done, to be left unburdened and naked, to tear the hurt off my body like layers of clothes. At the end of the trail I stop and bend forward, hands on my knees, to catch my breath. I'm not healed, but for this moment, I'm better.

Kerry Cohen

#9. The greatest things in life always come with a chance of great loss

Luke Edison

#10. Depicting yourself as a whole person on the page doesn't only mean recognizing your role in a bad situation. It means being emotionally authentic. It means showing all of yourself: the shameful parts, the embarrassing parts, the parts that you might regret or that you wish weren't true.

Kerry Cohen

#11. A sort of intimacy is forged when someone reads your book and both you and your reader wind up less alone in the world.

Kerry Cohen

#12. Maybe I don't have to perfect, I just have to be good enough.

Kerry Cohen

#13. This isn't a story about how some guy finally saves me from myself.
I'm my own hero here; I do the saving.

Kerry Cohen

#14. The mind is wired by society, the heart is wired by your deepest desires for a blissful life.

Steven Redhead

#15. He remains kind, but a feeling nags at me, staying with me long after I leave. And it's this: It doesn't matter what I did to him. He can choose to remain detached, untouched by me. Something I can't do back.

Kerry Cohen

#16. I supposed this is what is meant by 'growing up'...Find out the difference between what one expected one's life would be like and how things really are" -Lady Constance

Maryrose Wood

#17. Artist colonies are notorious for breaking up marriages and housing affairs.

Kerry Cohen

#18. It's just I'd rather sleep through the days so I'll be awake for the nights, when the boys are out.

Kerry Cohen

#19. Not being able to live without someone is not love. It's need.

Kerry Cohen

#20. I love the idea that a family doesn't need so much stuff to be whole, that perhaps there are other ways to feel full.

Kerry Cohen

#21. ... his solid body, the weight of him, his movement, all so real, all so there. It doesn't matter who he is. There are so many of them. Him. Me. Our movement together. Proof, I think again and again, of being worthwhile. Proof of being loved.

Kerry Cohen

#22. He hoots as he passes. Another one whistles. I know this is stupid, inviting trouble. But it feels so good to be wanted, I can't help myself.

Kerry Cohen

#23. Preston Black couldn't sleep the whole night through, Preston Black couldn't sleep the whole night through. He'd lay in bed 'til the morning came, but the devil'd visit him just the same. Preston Black couldn't sleep the whole night through.

Jason Jack Miller

#24. I've been grasping at nothing, running in circles, trying desperately to fill the emptiness inside with nothing but air. If I think about it too much, I feel shame, so much shame. So I don't.

Kerry Cohen

#25. I don't get caught in the match-ups, trying to outduel somebody. It's a team game.

Paul Pierce

#26. I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves
you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.

Ray Bradbury

#27. Being with people who don't understand is worse than being alone with her grief.

Kerry Cohen Hoffmann

#28. When I'm riding my bicycle I feel like a Buddhist who is happy just to enjoy his mundane existence

Robin Williams

#29. I used to sing lullabies to voodoo dolls I kept in a chapel. Clearly, I have no place judging you." -Lucus

Kira Saito

#30. It is a fact that the bitterest contradictions and the deadliest conflicts of the world are carried on in every individual breast capable of feeling and passion. [An anarchist]

Joseph Conrad