Million Little Pieces Quotes:

Part of me still loves. More of me doesn't.

- James Frey

source: James Frey (2004). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.177, Anchor

topic: Million Little Pieces, Stills

I hope nobody took the Razzle Dazzle Rose.

- James Frey

source: James Frey (2004). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.231, Anchor

topic: Rose, Dazzle, Million Little Pieces

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.

- James Frey

source: James Frey (2004). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.117, Anchor

topic: Feels, Wanted, Million Little Pieces

The Young Man came to the Old Man seeking counsel. I broke something, Old Man. How badly is it broken? It's in a million little pieces. I'm afraid I can't help you. Why? There's nothing you can do. Why? It can't be fixed. Why? It's broken beyond repair. It's in a million little pieces.

- James Frey

source: James Frey (2004). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.10, Anchor

topic: Men, Broken, Pieces, Million Little Pieces

When I started writing 'A Million Little Pieces,' I felt like it was the right story with the style I had been looking for, and I just kept going.

- James Frey

topic: Writing, Style, Stories, Million Little Pieces

The wounds that never heal can only be mourned alone.

- James Frey

source: James Frey (2004). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.270, Anchor

topic: Get Well, Heal, Wounds, Million Little Pieces

Sometimes skulls are thick. Sometimes hearts are vacant. Sometimes words don't work.

- James Frey

source: James Frey (2003). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.287, Rutgers University Press

topic: Hipster, Heart, Skulls, Million Little Pieces, Vacant

Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don't think you can, hold on.

- James Frey

topic: Inspirational, Strength, Inspiring, Million Little Pieces, Dignity And Strength

I'm tired of making people sad and I'm tired of disappointing them and I'm tired of seeing them break. I have seen this too many times. He will be the last.

- James Frey

source: James Frey (2004). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.135, Anchor

topic: Tired, People, Lasts, Million Little Pieces, I'm Tired

All of us started normal. All of us started out as functioning human beings with the potential to do almost anything we wanted, but somewhere along the paths of our lives, we got lost.

- James Frey

topic: Path, Normal, Lost, Million Little Pieces

Even a second of freedom is worth more than a lifetime of bondage.

- James Frey

source: James Frey (2009). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.267, Hachette UK

topic: Freedom, Lifetime, Bondage, Million Little Pieces

When I see you, the World stops. It stops and all that exists for me is you and my eyes staring at you. There's nothing else. No noise, no other people, no thoughts or worries, no yesterday, no tomorrow. The World just stops, and it is a beautiful place, and there is only you.

- James Frey

source: James Frey (2004). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.260, Anchor

topic: Beautiful, Eye, Yesterday, Million Little Pieces, Staring At You

I turn and I slowly walk away and I don't look back. It has always been a fault of mine, but it is the way I am. I never look back. Never.

- James Frey

source: James Frey (2004). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.106, Anchor

topic: Looks, Pieces, Way, Million Little Pieces

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.

- James Frey

source: James Frey (2004). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.281, Anchor

topic: Hurt, Would Be, Pieces, Million Little Pieces

Let things be, let yourself be, let everything be and accept it as it is. Nothing more. Nothing less.

- James Frey

topic: Accepting, Million Little Pieces

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.

- James Frey

source: James Frey (2004). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.316, Anchor

topic: Regret, Grief, Sadness, Million Little Pieces, Live Without Fear

We stare into each other's eyes and softly kiss speaking and saying more with the movement of our lips and the tips of our fingers than words will allow us to say. 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. It doesn't communicate even a fraction of the feelings involved. Love. The word is not enough for what it is. Love. Love.

- James Frey

topic: Mean, Eye, Kissing, Million Little Pieces, Words Love

In my mind my obituary is done.It is done and it is right. It tells the truth and as awful as it can be, the truth is what matters. It is what I should be remembered by, if I'm remembered at all. Remember the truth. that is all that matters

- James Frey

topic: What Matters, Mind, Awful, Million Little Pieces, Obituary

I stand, walk over to him, sit down on his bed, put my arms around him, hug him. He hugs me back strong and I can feel the shame coming through his arms. I am a Criminal and he is a Judge and I am white and he is black, but at this moment none of that matters. He is a man who needs a friends and I can be his friend.

- James Frey

topic: Strong, Men, White, Million Little Pieces, Hug Me

Everything I know and I am and I have seen felt done past present past now then before now seen felt done hurt felt focus into a something beyond words beyond beyond beyond and it speaks now and it says. Stay. Fight. Live. Take it.

- James Frey

source: James Frey (2004). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.223, Anchor

topic: Hurt, Fighting, Past, Speak Now, Million Little Pieces

Little Alice, all hollowed out, so easy to smash into a million little pieces.

- Elizabeth Scott

topic: Pieces, Littles, Easy, Million Little Pieces

It's cold and it's winter and the world has gone to sleep

- James Frey

topic: Sleep, Winter, Gone, Million Little Pieces

I think of how and why and what happened and the thoughts come easily, but the answers don't.

- James Frey

topic: Thinking, Answers, Self Loathing, Million Little Pieces, Deep Breath

That the world I was in could be soft, lovely, and nourishing was more than I could bear, and so I stood there and wept, for I didn't want to love one more thing in my life, didn't want one more thing that could make my heart break into a million little pieces at my feet.

- Jamaica Kincaid

topic: Heart, Feet, Lovely, Million Little Pieces

As a blogger, Chez Pazienza is filled with outrage, passion and insight -- delivered with a distinctive point of view, a wicked sense of humor, and a two-fisted style of prose. In Dead Star Twilight, he turns all these on himself -- and produces a fierce, funny, disturbing, but ultimately uplifting memoir. This is the book A Million Little Pieces dreamed of being.

- Arianna Huffington

topic: Uplifting, Stars, Twilight, Million Little Pieces

I am disappointed by this controversy surrounding A Million Little Pieces because I rely on the publishers to define the category that a book falls within and also the authenticity of the work.

- Oprah Winfrey

topic: Book, Fall, Littles, Million Little Pieces, I Am Disappointed

I just started trying to figure out how to write [something] which was unlike anything anybody had ever seen, and once I felt like I had figured that out I tried to figure out what kind of book I could write that would be unlike anything anybody had ever seen. When I started writing A Million Little Pieces I felt like it was the right story with the style I had been looking for, and I just kept going.

- James Frey

source: "The man who rewrote his life" by Laura Barton, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2006.

topic: Book, Writing, Style, Million Little Pieces

If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be truly fulfilled.

- Laozi

topic: Spiritual, Helping Others, Looks, Million Little Pieces, Being Happy With Yourself

I feel strong. Not strong enough to face myself, but strong enough to keep going.

- James Frey

source: James Frey (2004). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.58, Anchor

topic: Strong, Faces, Enough, Million Little Pieces, Not Strong Enough

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.

- James Frey

source: James Frey (2004). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.579, Anchor

topic: Honesty, Heart, People, Million Little Pieces, Love Emotion

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.

- James Frey

source: James Frey (2004). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.262, Anchor

topic: Wall, Heart, Eye, Million Little Pieces

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?

- James Frey

source: James Frey (2004). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.316, Anchor

topic: Song, Heart, Biology, Heart Beat, Million Little Pieces

Coming after all the bullshit related to A Million Little Pieces, nobody was expecting anything from me. No publisher, no agent, no one. Just me and the book. It was great.

- James Frey

source: Interview with Stephen Elliott, therumpus.net. January 20, 2009.

topic: Book, Bullshit, Pieces, Million Little Pieces