Quotes by : Norah Vincent

I was always asking myself why. Why am I feeling this? Thinking that if I knew the cause I could find....

Despair was strength. Despair was the scab and the scar. The walled city in a time of plague. A closed....

If I was lonely, if I was afraid of being alone, then why abandon myself? Why run to someone else looking....

That was the crux. You. Only you could work on you. Nobody could force you, and if you weren't ready,....

Happiness is not a reward. It's a consequence. You have to work at it every day.

This will sound strange, and yet I'm sure it was the point: it was a bit like being high. That, for me,....

I'd been at the mercy of a prick on a power trip, the kind of buttoned-up bantam rooster who gets off....

... there is a whole hell of a lot of knowledge about the (expletive removed) human condition that we....

There is a time in a boy’s life when the sweetness is pounded out of him; and tenderness, and the ability....

You want to be happy? You want to be well? Then put your boots on.