Kathryn Harrison quotes

“Scars are stories, history written on the body”
-- Kathryn Harrison

#Stories Quotes #Body Quotes #Scar Quotes

“We're taught to expect unconditional love from our parents, but I think it is more the gift our children give us. It's they who love us helplessly, no matter what or who we are.”
-- Kathryn Harrison

Source : Kathryn Harrison (2011). “The Kiss: A Memoir”, p.175, Random House

#Children Quotes #Unconditional Love Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“My days are as long as despair can make them.”
-- Kathryn Harrison

Source : Kathryn Harrison (2011). “The Kiss: A Memoir”, p.155, Random House

#Long Quotes #Despair Quotes

“The dizzy rapture of starving. The power of needing nothing. By force of will I make myself the impossible sprite who lives on air, on water, on purity.”
-- Kathryn Harrison

Source : Kathryn Harrison (2011). “The Kiss: A Memoir”, p.41, Random House

#Air Quotes #Water Quotes #Dizzy Quotes

“Don’t portray yourself as who you want to be. Portray yourself as who you are.”
-- Kathryn Harrison

#Want Quotes #Who You Are Quotes

“Don’t portray yourself as who you want to be. Portray yourself as who you are.”
-- Kathryn Harrison

#Want Quotes #Who You Are Quotes

“For me, writing is inseparable from thinking. I could say the entire undertaking is a vast cerebral construct against my demons. It's the thing that I love. It's my identity.”
-- Kathryn Harrison

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Identity Quotes

“I like nudging readers into a slightly different perspective, but in a sly way - I want to be the writer who slips a stiletto in and out, to make so swift and clean a cut, it's not until a chapter ends that the reader looks down and sees she's bleeding and asks what happened.”
-- Kathryn Harrison

Source : "Why Author Kathryn Harrison Wants Her Writing to 'Destroy Your Equilibrium'". Interview with Leigh Haber, www.oprah.com. November 2014.

#Cutting Quotes #Perspective Quotes #Want Quotes

“I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing.”
-- Kathryn Harrison

Source : "Why Author Kathryn Harrison Wants Her Writing to 'Destroy Your Equilibrium'". Interview with Leigh Haber, www.oprah.com. November 2014.

#Writing Quotes #Work Out Quotes #World Quotes

“Writing is how I stay sane. It's completely necessary.”
-- Kathryn Harrison

Source : "Why Author Kathryn Harrison Wants Her Writing to 'Destroy Your Equilibrium'". Interview with Leigh Haber, www.oprah.com. November 2014.

#Writing Quotes #Sane Quotes

“Sometimes there's a sort of tear in the veil, and there are people who live in more than one dimension.”
-- Kathryn Harrison

Source : "Why Author Kathryn Harrison Wants Her Writing to 'Destroy Your Equilibrium'". Interview with Leigh Haber, www.oprah.com. November 2014.

#People Quotes #Tears Quotes #Veils Quotes

“There aren't many people in our history who have so completely surrendered themselves to a mission that they would give up their lives for it.”
-- Kathryn Harrison

Source : "Why Author Kathryn Harrison Wants Her Writing to 'Destroy Your Equilibrium'". Interview with Leigh Haber, www.oprah.com. November 2014.

#Giving Up Quotes #People Quotes #Giving Quotes

“As a young woman, I was so eager to please that I served others' happiness and even their values before my own. It didn't earn me love, but it did deliver me to a place where I had to choose between what I thought of myself and what other people did. I chose myself.”
-- Kathryn Harrison

Source : "Why Author Kathryn Harrison Wants Her Writing to 'Destroy Your Equilibrium'". Interview with Leigh Haber, www.oprah.com. November 2014.

#Others Happiness Quotes #People Quotes #Young Quotes