Paula Sharp quotes

“Rage keeps the person who feels it company. It moves into the hollows left by grief and loss, and turns inside you like a dark furred animal that grows and fills you; it kills off loneliness and takes its place.”
-- Paula Sharp

Source : Paula Sharp (2001). “I Loved You All: A Novel”, Hyperion

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“Being strange is not necessarily bad ... Sometimes it's a person's only redeeming quality.”
-- Paula Sharp

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“Isolation and belonging are not absolute, provable states of being. They arise completely out of the nothingness within you; you measure their dimensions against your own firm or shaky sense of who you are.”
-- Paula Sharp

Source : Paula Sharp (2000). “I Loved You All”, Hyperion

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“... although many people say it is a terrible onus to be labeled bad as a child, I thought that the opposite must be worse: If you knew early that you had wickedness in you, you could learn to accept it, if not to wrestle against it. But if you believed that you were essentially good, then when you finally found the ocean of evil in yourself, surely it would come as a terrible shock.”
-- Paula Sharp

Source : Paula Sharp (2001). “I Loved You All: A Novel”, Hyperion

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“Not since Lord of the Flies has a novelist written with such perceptiveness about the potential for harm that lurks within the innocence of childhood.”
-- Paula Sharp

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“You are the architect of your own loneliness.”

Source : Henry Thomas Hamblin (2009). “The Power of Thought”, p.4, The Floating Press

“It made me have a much greater understanding of loss, of loneliness, and the level of intense tragedy that so many people have experienced in this world, I take a lot less for granted.”

Source : "Profile: Adrien Brody" by John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2003.

“Art and literature have given so many people the relief of feeling connected - pulled us out of isolation. It has let us know that somebody else breathed and dreamed and had sex and loved and raged and knew loneliness the way we do.”

“The loneliness is when you pick up and move, even if you are not originally from that place, and you have some memories that you want to embrace. Having a life in transit, I feel like you are always looking out the back window.”

“There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest in America and Europe in that there is this sense of vast, open sky and loneliness and cold.”

“Loneliness is everything it's cracked up to be.”

“It was always part of the plan to move into acting.”

“Blaire, This teardrop represents many things. The tears I know you’ve shed over holding your mother’s piece of satin. The tears you’ve shed over each loss you’ve experienced. But it also represents the tears we’ve both shed as we’ve felt the little life inside you begin to move. The tears I’ve shed over the fact I’ve been given someone like you to love. I never imagined anyone like you Blaire. But every time I think about forever with you I’m humbled that you chose me. This is your something blue. I love you, Rush”

“Do no cheat thy Heart and tell her, 'Grief will pass away.'”

Source : Adelaide Anne Procter (1858). “Legends and lyrics: a book of verses”, p.26

“Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.”