Quotes from Mary Miller

I didn't know how I could want things so badly while making it impossible to ever get them.

It made me love them more because I knew the day would come when I would also be unrecognizable to myself.

I don't like when people compliment my looks." "How come?" "I don't know," she said. And then, "Because it reminds me that I'm going to die. If someone says I have nice teeth, I think, One day they'll rot. If they say I have nice hair, I think about it falling out by the fistful.

Boys liked it when you were starving, like you had starved yourself for them.

I wanted to be like my sister, who made friends and mistakes easily. It was like she'd been born knowing how to live.

I didn't know how I could want things so badly while making it impossible to ever get them.

To help create positive change in others, you must first find the catalyst for positive change in yourself," Mary Miller, Changing Direction: Ten Choices That Impact Your Dreams (Chapter 1).

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I didn't have to be perfect-hardly anyone was perfect. Why did I think I had to be perfect all the time?

I kept thinking, confusing myself, and then I stopped and listed all of the things I was sorry for- weakness of character, rebelliousness, being disrespectful to my parents, touching Gabe and letting him touch me. Wanting to be loved too much. But my desires weren't that unreasonable, and why was my body made to want things it shouldn't want?

That sounds like a pretty good place I said for something to say.' So much of what he said required no response, but if no one said anything, his words just hung there. The Last Days of California

There were so many things I wasn't that I had difficulty defining myself, especially in relation to Elise, who was so many things.

I would always think the worst of people and it would keep me from them because I couldn't accept myself.