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The Talk-Funny Girl QUOTES

The Talk-Funny Girl QUOTES

1 " Some people use their own hurt as an excuse for hurting others "

― Roland Merullo , The Talk-Funny Girl

2 " You have to take a little time to appreciate being alive and breathing instead of wondering what you have to do next all the time. You have to stop and do nothing for a little while every day. "

― Roland Merullo , The Talk-Funny Girl

3 " The past shouts at you, the ugly words or actions echo down across the years. "

― Roland Merullo , The Talk-Funny Girl

4 " I’m not great at talking to people. I have all these thoughts bunching up inside my head and then they come out like a dam bursting or something. I’m sorry. "

― Roland Merullo , The Talk-Funny Girl

5 " ...it was like being in the start of an earthquake. Before that, whatever else happened, however bad things had been, you were at least sure the ground would stay still. "

― Roland Merullo , The Talk-Funny Girl

6 " Some people use their own hurt as an excuse for hurting others, or for soaking in self-pity, or for a sharp anger that knifes up through the surface whenever something reminds them of what happened long ago. "

― Roland Merullo , The Talk-Funny Girl

7 " that girl was not treated well, and when anyone is hurt like that - especially a child - the hurt burrows down inside and makes a kind of museum there, with images of the bad times displayed on every wall. Some people try to forget the museum exits and keep their mind occupied with drink or drugs or food, or by staying busy with work or they chase one kind of excitement after another, while memories fester there in the dark. "

― Roland Merullo , The Talk-Funny Girl

8 " There are some kinds of sorrow that words can never reach, certain kinds of things you can never hold in the box of your thoughts, certain kinds of pain you can’t soften in other people. "

― Roland Merullo , The Talk-Funny Girl

9 " I studied him the way I studied all the people in my life, noticing the changes of his mood, the times when the edge of his patience came into view, even small physical details like the sickle-shaped scar on the top of his right forearm and the small flourish he made with his hand whenever he set down a tool, as if he was brushing bad air away from it. "

― Roland Merullo , The Talk-Funny Girl