Quotes from Carol Plum-Ucci

Sometimes the things you search far and wide for are right under your nose.

I don't know if anybody thinks of themselves as bad. We all have excuses.

The line between complete joy and complete terror is often thin.

I found myself in a place that was thorny, but because I was so used to being there, it bore out certain twisted sensations of comfort. It's a place called «alone».

Life is excellent or life blows, depending on how you look at it.

When you go into a room, you knock first. If you start asking people questions and they start tilting back in their chairs, it means they don't want to talk about it. It means if you look at something on their computer screens, they're likely to knock your brains out with a baseball bat.

My one challenge with the support group that I'd become involved with on campus is that the people seem to spend as much time talking about their ill-begotten pasts as their promising futures. It's as if people are drawn to looking back. They can't move on until it all makes sense. Humbly submitted: It never does.

A person could explode if he had to think too much.

My belief in ghosts swings with the wind. But my belief that the cemetery felt happy and not sad—I've never changed my mind about that.

There you go: Someone who puts «positive thinking» and «shit» in the same concept can inspire some serious eye-rolling if you're the type who works at keeping your thought-life healthy.

There is something very cool about writing your worst memories through someone else's eyes. You start to see what happened to you... almost as if it happened to somebody else. Especially if that made-up person is nice, it's a great exercise because there are many mean people in this world.

No friend of my parents is a pervert. It's physiologically impossible.

Love covers a myriad of plausibility structures.

Thin veneers can cover a mountain of problems around here when nobody's looking at the details.

You can't photograph the hugest mysteries of the universe that really have nothing to do with what shows up before your eyes, under a microscope, through a telescope, in the pages of books.

The deep doesn't bother swallowing just anybody. The sea takes the extraordinary and leaves the rest be

Love and truth have no correlation.

People create their own little hells. They don't need my help

You can never see a plant grow, but they do.

My mom always said that people admire you for your strengths, but they love you for your faults. They love you for all your imperfections, which make them more comfortable with their own imperfect lives.

World is all backward… It's like…we're through the looking glass. Good is bad, bad is good. Black is white, white is black. People base their lives on convenient recollections and are considered sane. People who look too hard for truth are considered crazy.

There is truth. There is a truth. And what you want, or you feel, or you need, isn't going to change the truth.

The truth will set you free, and then you shall be free indeed.

There are times in life to grow, and there are times in life to shine. One can't grow and shine at the same time; it just doesn't work that way. Now you're growing. Tomorrow you'll shine.