James Frey
I would like to be soft and warm. I would be terrified to be that way. I could be hurt if I were soft and warm. I could be hurt by something other than myself. It is harder to be soft than it is to be hard. I could be hurt by something other than myself.Collection: Hurt
There is, though, nothing that prepares us for the worst things in our life. There is nothing you can do to stop the shock, or buffer the pain.Collection: Pain
We live in a world that's very fast, where we get bombarded with huge amounts of information very quickly, and I have tried to tailor my voice to the times, which I think, writers, over the course of history - many have always done.Collection: Thinking
The Bible was written two thousand years ago. The world is a different place now. Stories that had meaning then are meaningless now. Beliefs that might have been valid then are invalid now. Those books should be looked at in the same way we look at anything of that age with interest with an acknowledgement of the historical importance but they should not be thought of as anything that has any value.Collection: Book
What's crazy is living your life according to some book written by someone who couldn't imagine what your life would be like.Collection: Crazy
I feel strong. Not strong enough to face myself, but strong enough to keep going.Collection: Strong
There are places from which you cannot return. There is damage that can be irreparable.Collection: Damage
Being an unpublished novelist has about as much social acceptability as being a shopping bag lady.Collection: Shopping
She feels and she cries. It is to be admired.Collection: Cry
Words can't say this. The one word love means too little for what it is. It means everything and that is still not enough.Collection: Mean
I listen to the tick of an unseen clock marking moments of time long passed.Collection: Long
Lying became part of my life. I lied if I needed to lie to get something or get out of somethingCollection: Lying
The one word love means too little for what it is. It doesn't communicate even a fraction of the feelings involved. Love. The word is not enough for what it is. Love. Love.Collection: Mean
The Los Angeles Air Pollution Control Board is established in 1946 in an effort to discover the cause of the brown cloud hanging over the city and decide how to combat and disperse it. In 1949, after intense lobbying from both the automobile and oil industries, and against the recommendations and position of the Los Angeles Air Pollution Control Board, the public rail system, which at one time was the largest in the world, and still serves a majority of the city's population, is decommissioned and torn out. It is replaced by a small fleet of buses.Collection: Air
For years I supported capital punishment, but I have come to believe that our criminal justice system is incapable of adequately distinguishing between the innocent and guilty. It is reprehensible and immoral to gamble with life and death.Collection: Believe
The calm. If there is God or something Higher for me it is this. The calm. If there is something that will hold me when I need to hold it is this the calm. There is no anger, no rage, no Fury. There is no want, no need, no desire. There is no hatred no shame no regret. There is no grief, no sadness, no depression. There is no fear. Absolutely no fear. When one lives without fear, one cannot be broken. When one lives with fear one is broken before one begins to live.Collection: Regret
Love only brought me lonliness and horror.Collection: Horror
Ive never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography.Collection: Writing
I think men who can cry are strong menCollection: Strong
The greatest rules of dramatic writing are conflict, conflict, conflict.Collection: Writing
Take the risk and do whatever you can do and try not to get caught. If you do get caught, do it again.Collection: Risk
Not everyone who works hard makes their dream come true. You need luck and hard work and being in the right place at the right time but I still very much believe it's possible.Collection: Dream
She made me feel better than I have ever felt, better than I imagined I could feel, and it scared me, it scared me to the point of paralysis.Collection: Feel Better
...we got this gift of life and we got it one time and we gonna get hurt in it and be hurt going through it and the only thing that'll make that hurt better or hurt less is love.Collection: Hurt
I've been alone my whole life, I can't do it anymore.Collection: Whole Life
This Girl with nothing but her own strength and a desire to be free. With nothing but a beating heart that is scared to be alone. With nothing but clear blue eyes that see through me and understand me. With nothing but open arms ready to receive me. To stand by me. To walk with me. To love me. I love her. Lilly. The Girl with nothing and everything. Lilly. I love her. A tear appears. She smiles. She leans forward kisses my lips softly kisses me and as our lips touch barely touch she whispers. I love you too, James. Our lips barely touching she whispers. I love you. Whispers. I love you.Collection: Girl
The promise of eternal life makes people forsake the life they're given.Collection: People
There is emotion in the hug, and there is respect and a form of love. Emotion that comes from honesty, respect that comes from challenge, and the form of love that exists between people whose minds have touched, whose hearts have touched, whose souls have touched. Our minds touched. Our hearts touched. Our souls touched. We separate.Collection: Honesty
This moment and this chance, they are the same, and they are mine if I choose them,and I do. I want them. Now and as long as I can have them they are both precious and fleeting and gone in the blink of an eye, don't waste them. A moment and an opportunity and a life, all in the unseen tick of a clock holding me nowhere. My heart is beating. The walls are pale and quiet. I am surviving.Collection: Wall
I, however, like black. It is a color that makes me comfortable and the color with which I have the most experience. In the darkest darkness, all is black. In the deepest hole, all is black. In the terror of my Addicted mind, all is black. In the empty periods of my lost memory, all is black. I like black, goddammit, and I am going to give it its due.Collection: Memories
But love is different for every person. For some it's hate, for some it's joy, for some it's fear, for some it's jealousy, for some it's torture, for some it's peace. For some it's everything.Collection: Hate
For the worst things of our lives, it is sometimes the best way, to never speak of them again.Collection: Way
We did what our people do all the time, we told ourselves something we did was right and we found a way to justify it, even though we knew it was wrong.Collection: People
I have lived alone, I have fought alone, I have dealt with the pain alone. I will die alone. I think when I'm going to leave. I don’t want to be seen and I don’t want to be followed , I want to disappear quickly and quietly and without any drama , I want as much time in the darkness as I can possibly have . The darkness provides cover, the darkness provides places to hide and the darkness provides comfort.Collection: Pain
Light streamed through one of the windows and across her face and I have never seen anything or anyone so beautiful in my life. If my heart had stopped at that moment I would have fallen happy and fallen full and I would have seen in life all that I had wanted to see and all that I needed to see. Fall. Let me fall.Collection: Beautiful
Being a writer now is about so much more than writing. There's publishing, touring, marketing, web presence.Collection: Writing
I turn and I look back across the lake. The mist is gone and the ice diminished, the drip of the icicles quick and heavy. The sun is up and the sky is blue empty blue light blue clear blue. I would drink the sky if I could drink it, drink it and celebrate it and let it fill me and become me. I am getting better. Empty and clear and light and blue. I am getting better.Collection: Lakes
I skip the introduction. If the book goes in the trash, I want it to go because of my thoughts on it, not because of some Asshole's thoughts who wrote the introduction.Collection: Book
For the most profound experiences in our lives and in the world words are worth nothing. Can you describe love Or death Can you describe what it really feels like the first time you see your child Or the first time your heart gets broken You can try...but it won't come close to describing what it really was or what it really felt like.Collection: Children
I don't speak with proper grammar. I don't speak with dialogue attribution. I don't speak with quotation. I don't care about any of that stuff. It's about rhythm, and it's about what's in their [the character's] head, and what feels more natural. And it's about speed. I want things to move.Collection: Moving
...if you can accept the truth and live with it your heart will be at peace.Collection: Heart
People don't want to accept the responsibility for their own weakness, so they place the blame on something that they're not responsible for, like disease or genetics.Collection: Responsibility
Pain is the feeling. Suffering is the effect the pain inflicts. If one can endure pain, one can live without suffering. If one can withstand pain, one can withstand anything. If one can learn to control pain, one can learn to control oneself.Collection: Pain
Faith is the fool's excuse.Collection: Fool
I hadn't learned yet that everybody's locked up some way or other. That's how life is we're all imprisoned by something.Collection: Way
The past doesn't matter. People cling to it because it allows them to ignore the present.Collection: Past
There are never words for the strongest of our feelings. There is just the pain that we cannot share. Pain we must all feel alone.Collection: Pain
Are we biology or God or something higher? I know my heart beats and I listen to it. The beat is biology, but what is the song?Collection: Song
More than anything, all I have ever wanted is to be close to someone. More than anything, all I have ever wanted is to feel as if i wasn't alone.Collection: Feels