Monica Holloway Quotes

#1. One of the workshop participants had shown me a single 8 X 10 photograph of a power plant where he actually was the general manager of this power cooperative. It was quite magical to me.

John Sexton

#2. The reaction of one man could be forecast by no known mathematics; the reaction of a billion is something else again. Hari

Isaac Asimov

#3. My whole life, I wanted to be dead, but I didn't actually do anything about it. I guess I didn't want to be dead; I wanted relief. I wanted to be happy and peaceful." "That's it," she said. "It's not about dying; it's about stopping the pain." (289)

Monica Holloway

#4. In order to build our nation, we must all exceed our own expectations.

Nelson Mandela

#5. My husband is always accusing me of being a context-free individual. He asks something and he has no idea where it came from or what it related to. I have to supply him with way more supplementary information than I ever have to supply my female friends.

Heidi Julavits

#6. I was relieved in some weird way that the accident had actually occurred. It was a physical manifestation of what had already been going on inside the car. The outside now matched the inside - damaged beyond repair. (113)

Monica Holloway

#7. I wished there had been obvious signs of destruction on all of us kids: bruises or burn marks, something that indicated how violent our house was, but words and neglect don't leave visible marks. And that confuses even the person who knows better. (169)

Monica Holloway

#8. Human creativity is the ultimate economic resource.

Richard Florida

#9. The world wasn't safe today. The truth was, this world was never safe. (19)

Monica Holloway

#10. On Becoming a 'Lady': What every mother wants her daughter to be.

Marlene Dietrich

#11. Knowing there is no cavalry is much better than hoping for a cavalry that never comes. I am strong because I have to be. I am the cavalry. (314)

Monica Holloway

#12. Just as Sarah Keeler had taught me that children die, Wendy taught me that you don't have to wade through the insanity; you can get off the bus. This scared me so much that a sweaty panic swept over me. From that moment on I knew it was possible to end my own life. (157)

Monica Holloway

#13. The truth was that in the end, sad felt better than rage - a lot better. But rage came easier. Sad felt like the world was ending. (150)

Monica Holloway

#14. Your personality, your body, you intuitional structure. These are all tools; energy tools of the soul. Your soul existed before your personality came into being, it will exist after your personality came into being.

Gary Zukav

#15. A part of adolescence is feeling that there's no one else around who's enough like yourself to understand you.

John Irving

#16. All life is a manifestation of the spirit, the manifestation of love.

Morihei Ueshiba

#17. Around the world, human traffickers trick many people into slavery by false promises of good jobs or good education, only to find themselves forced to work without pay, under the threat of violence.

Lisa Kristine

#18. You know you're getting somewhere as a writer when the rejection letters mean as much as spam in your inbox.

Jason E. Hodges

#19. This sent me into an inappropriate laughing fit. I wasn't allowed to get angry, and I couldn't cry, so I laughed - a lot. (114)

Monica Holloway