Randy O. Frost Quotes

Indeed, much of her hoard allowed her to imagine various identities: a great cook, a well-read and informed person, a responsible citizen. Her things represented dreams, not realities. Getting rid of the things meant losing the dreams

You can't hook up a U-Haul to a hearse

As has been apparent to us from studying hoarding, we may own the things in our homes, but they own us as well.

I'm smart and creative, and I could have been happy. But I'm not anything. I have done nothing. I'm collecting life without living it.

She couldn't tolerate mistakes and almost always chose inactivity over the possibility of doing something less than perfectly.