Quotes from Cammie McGovern

Freakishness could happen to anyone at any time.

I've decided that it's possible to love someone for entirely selfless reasons, for all of their flaws and weaknesses, and still not succeed in having them love you back.

that love is a feeling. You don't always kiss people you love. 'Sometimes you just love them

You have to know things like: don't spend the whole time talking about yourself. I used to have a problem with this because silence makes me nervous and I fill it with whatever is in my head...

4 likes Like Facebook icon Twitter icon "JUST BECAUSE YOU'RE TOO SCARED TO TAKE ANY RISKS DOESN'T MEAN THE REST OF US SHOULD BE.

What you do if you fall in love with a character in a movie is decide what you like about that person and start looking for those qualities in a real person you know from life.

I've decided that it's possible to LOVE someone for entirely SELFLESS reasons, for all of their flaw and weaknesses, and still NOT succeed in having them love you back. It's sad, perhaps, but not TRAGIC, unless you dwell forever in the PURSUIT of their elusive affections.

She told him to think of his mind as a Worry Wheel with three parts—an anxious mind, anxious body, and anxious actions. She said an anxious mind got the Worry Wheel spinning, and an anxious body kept it going until anxious actions made it spin out of control.

Maybe a little bit of happiness doesn't mean I'll be sadder, later down the line.

O amor não é uma questão de parecer perfeito aos olhos da outra pessoa. É uma questão de poder mostrar suas imperfeições

Amy might have called him brave in that email but he was afraid of everything about Amy, especially her body, which had the terrible problem of being crippled and attractive.

Everyone has bad days. You have to make the good ones.

I don't believe there's such a thing as casual sex for people like you and me. How could there be? We don't have casual relationships with our bodies. They're unpredictable, humiliating things that have failed us so much it's hard not to hate them, and impossible to imagine being naked with another person and relaxed at the same time.

I DON'T THINK I'LL EVER TRY TO DATE. I DON'T SEE THE POINT." "Well, I'm trying it," he said, and then laughed a little. But this obviously wasn't funny. She hadn't expected this. "YOU'RE DATING SOMEONE?" "A little," he said, and drew a deep breath. "And there isn't really much of a point. What I've learned is that I have certain qualities that are annoying to other people.

I suspect we have both lived lives that appeared to have serene surfaces and were, for both of us, hollow and impossible to sustain.

Gradually, that first year in middle school, he began to understand—there were many ways to be a freak. Amy had no choice, but other people did. If you worked hard and concentrated, you could hide your freakish thoughts.

This feeling will pass. The fear is real but the danger is not.

I've decided that it's possible to love someone for entirely selfless reasons, for all of their flaws and weaknesses, and still not succeed in having them love you back. It's sad, perhaps, but not tragic, unless you dwell forever in the pursuit of their elusive affections.

Let's don't wait forever for our lives to start. Let's begin them ourselves. Let's be fearless for once and say, we can do this.

I thought helping someone else might take me out of my own head for a while.

This is what we do, my mother's life said. We find ourselves in the sacrifices we make.

Stains were a patchwork of mistakes you couldn't get rid of. They showed the world your real self, even the parts you didn't want it to see.

I have learned not to judge people by their limitations, but by the way they push past them.

The real problem with his type of OCD--chronic fear of hurting other people--was that you thought so much about not running over children, not sideswiping pedestrians, not poisoning strangers with germs on your hands--essentially not killing a world full of strangers--that you ended up hurting the people you loved most. He saw that now.