Kitty Thomas Quotes

You see, I've never been free. Not one day of my life. I've always given in to the wants and needs of those around me. My confidence has always been a social mask and my success as a motivational speaker was because my mask was just so damn convincing. At times, even to me. ~ Kitty Thomas

If you haven't developed morals by the time you start reading erotica, it's probably too late. ~ Kitty Thomas

You may get me to say the word, but know this, you will never truly own me. That right belongs to my real master. You may take his symbol off my hip, but there will always be a scar that reminds us both what was there. And you might take his collar off my throat, but you'll never erase his name from my soul. ~ Kitty Thomas

It was as if her body had lain dormant, waiting for the right man to come along and awaken her to her erotic potential. ~ Kitty Thomas

The whole concept of sexual attraction had become a clinical observation of how other people were. ~ Kitty Thomas

Love burns past logic and all rational time lines to consume everything. ~ Kitty Thomas

I can't kill him and he can't keep me alive. The world we've lived in together is an illusion that can't be maintained. The edges are fraying, curling away to reveal the harsh reality beneath. The lion and the lamb do not lie down together. It just can't be. ~ Kitty Thomas

Somewhere deep in my mind, I knew he could be my new ocean. ~ Kitty Thomas

The wind didn't know this was hell. ~ Kitty Thomas

He made you believe you'd have lovely things and live kinkily ever after, didn't he? ~ Kitty Thomas

It's a cruel joke of the universe that the one person who makes me come alive is himself dead. And evil. His very existence defies all moral laws and all known laws of physics. ~ Kitty Thomas

He is the cornerstone of a defining life moment for me. ~ Kitty Thomas

I know I need him. And I hope he needs me. What we have is fucked up and twisted, but it serves a need. I know I've always been wired differently. He only brought to the surface what was already there. ~ Kitty Thomas

Blackmail.
It was the socially-approved equivalent of blow me, and I'll get you some of the good stuff. ~ Kitty Thomas

There has to be some way this won't end in tragedy. Why can't Romeo and Juliet live happily ever after? It's as if the universe won't abide such a strong connection in such a disconnected world, as if our connection defies the natural order. ~ Kitty Thomas

Fiction had sold me pretty lies, and none of them did me any good now. ~ Kitty Thomas

People always think that they'll never break. They'll never give in, CIA operatives somehow crack, but not them ~ Kitty Thomas

Before, time held no meaning with him. Now it's everything. Every second of my existence feels like it will be the last. ~ Kitty Thomas

But I've never followed my own will. What I wanted. It was always what you guys wanted. Or what society wanted. Or I almost took my pills like a good little girl, had my cathartic trauma moment, and put the pieces of my world back together so everyone could say how brave and good I was. Almost. But I couldn't. As I write this letter I can't decide whether I'm acting from strength or weakness, but I know that I'm acting for the first time of my own will. Yes, I know that's hard to accept. ~ Kitty Thomas

The only thing you're safe from is everyone and everything else. I can protect you from literally anything but myself.
Pray that i don't love you, Juliette. I'm scared of what will happen to you if i do - The Last Girl ~ Kitty Thomas

When you're a part of society there are certain behaviors that aren't okay. If you do these behaviors and then feel nothing, that's worse. But I've been trying to determine when I've ever been a part of society. ~ Kitty Thomas

The technology distracted us from our lack of answers to anything that mattered. It gave us a lesser form of magic to wield to appease us. ~ Kitty Thomas

I'd convinced myself it would have been different if he'd been as ugly on the outside as he was on the inside, but he wasn't. He was cruel beauty, a sculpture, a god, and I couldn't tear my eyes from him. I'd seen his expression soften in the dungeon with the whip. I'd do anything to have him look at me like that again, no matter how insane he was. ~ Kitty Thomas

No . . . please don't leave me. I'll be your whore. I'll be whatever you want, please." I ~ Kitty Thomas

I wonder if he'd die if I did because I know the opposite is true. ~ Kitty Thomas

The way you respond to me. You're poetry in motion. ~ Kitty Thomas

There is that moment when you first wake up and your dreams are still hovering like a fine mist in the air. For a tiny fragment of time you feel as though you could choose to live in either reality. In fact, in those seconds, as the dream replays in your mind, still so fresh, it seems more real, and this world seems unreal and fuzzy. I want to make the choice to go back to the dream, to live there. ~ Kitty Thomas

He always gave me choices. Or maybe what he gave me was force wrapped in the pretty package of pretend free will. ~ Kitty Thomas

The juxtaposition of fear and helplessness, set up next to complete pleasure and eventual surrender ~ Thomas Kitty

Where he'd wanted her to remain very still, she saw he'd spelled out a word with wax. Mine. She ~ Kitty Thomas

Can I take a few things?
Mementos. How fucked up was that? I wanted reminders of my imprisonment. ~ Kitty Thomas

He'd gone from being just my tormentor to being my tormentor and protector, though I needed protection from nothing but him. ~ Kitty Thomas

When you really thought about it crying was a rather bizarre thing for any creature to be capable of. What purpose did it serve other than revealing too much? ~ Kitty Thomas

I want to drink you until there's nothing left. I want you to magically rematerialize so I can do it again. I want a phoenix that will rise from the ashes just so I can keep burning her. I thought I knew madness, but I didn't know it before you. ~ Kitty Thomas

All I feel is sympathy for the devil who has crawled inside my heart, stealing my soul and my will from me. ~ Kitty Thomas

When you became everything and everything became you, what was there to dispute? Everything just was. ~ Kitty Thomas

The concept of disease is fast replacing the concept of responsibility. With increasing zeal Americans use and interpret the assertion "I am sick" as equivalent to the assertion "I am not responsible": Smokers say they are not responsible for smoking, drinkers that they are not responsible for drinking, gamblers that they are not responsible for gambling, and mothers who murder their infants that they are not responsible for killing. To prove their point - and to capitalize on their self-destructive and destructive behavior - smokers, drinkers, gamblers, and insanity acquitees are suing tobacco companies, liquor companies, gambling casinos, and physicians. ~ Thomas Szasz

For ours is a most fictile world; and man is the most fingent plastic of creatures. A world not fixable; not fathomable! An unfathomable Somewhat, which is Not me; which we can work with, and live amidst
and model, miraculously in our miraculous Being, and name World. ~ Thomas Carlyle

We need to learn how to separate need from greed. ~ Thomas S. Monson

Which is the world? Of our two sleepings, which / Shall fall awake when cures and their itch / Raise up this red-eyed earth? ~ Dylan Thomas

He who takes not counsel of the Unseen and Silent, from him will never come real visibility and speech. ~ Thomas Carlyle

Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite. ~ Thomas Carlyle

He could not be mistaken. There were no other eyes like those in the world. There was only one creature in the world who could concentrate for him all the brightness and meaning of life. It was she. It was Kitty. ~ Leo Tolstoy

A predilection for genre fiction is symptomatic of a kind of arrested development. ~ Thomas M. Disch

In Vegas, the veneer of glamor was bright but thin. You didn't have to look that hard to see the darker realities that lurked beneath the surface. ~ Rob Thomas

Trial by jury is part of the bright constellation which leads to peace, liberty and safety. ~ Thomas Jefferson

The science, the art, the jurisprudence, the chief political and social theories, of the modern world have grown out of Greece and Rome - not by favour of, but in the teeth of, the fundamental teachings of early Christianity, to which science, art, and any serious occupation with the things of this world were alike despicable. ~ Thomas Henry Huxley

The more humble and obedient to God a man is, the more wise and at peace he will be in all that he does. ~ Thomas A Kempis

The essence of sport is courage. ~ Thomas McGuane

Infirmity and misery do not of necessity imply guilt. ~ Thomas De Quincey

She wished the man outside really were Thomas, so she and Billups could again have the same enemy and the same fear.O ~ Ayana Mathis

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. ~ Thomas Jefferson

The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities. ~ Thomas Jefferson

Reading allows you to go into a space that nothing else can take you to. ~ Eric Thomas

If you want to know whats really going on in the world note carefully what is never mentioned in the newspapers meaning of course that is he meant international money swindles & deals between jewish gold merchants & cabinet ministers ~ John Thomas Idlet

Christian consciousness experiences itself in a curious sense as LIBERATED TO FAIL, without intolerable damage to self-esteem and without any reduction of moral seriousness. We are free to be inadequate, free to foul things up, and yet affirm ourselves in a more basic sense than the secular moralist or humanistic idealist (who can affirm themselves only on the basis of merits and accomplishments. We are free to choose and deny finite values, free to take constructive guilt upon us and to see it as an inevitable and providentially given aspect of our fallen human condition.
All that we have said leads us to the pinnacle of this good news: In Jesus Christ we need no longer be guilty before God. It is only before our clay-footed gods that we stand guilty! ~ Thomas C. Oden

My advice to American filmmakers is to marry a European. I'm not kidding. Otherwise they don't qualify for international co-production treaties. ~ Jeremy Thomas

Remember always thine end, and how the time which is lost returneth not. Without care and diligence thou shalt never get virtue. If thou beginnest to grow cold, it shall begin to go ill with thee, but if thou givest thyself unto zeal thou shalt find much peace, and shalt find thy labour the lighter because of the grace of God and the love of virtue. ~ Thomas A Kempis

He's a monster. I think of him as one of those pitiful things that are born in hospitals from time to time. They feed it, and keep it warm, but they don't put it on the machines and it dies. Lecter is the same way in his head, but he looks normal and nobody could tell. ~ Thomas Harris

During this period (of technological confinement / [and language]) the human mind has been placed in its narrowest confines it has experienced since consciousness emerged from its Paleolithic phase. Even the most primitive tribes have a larger vision of the universe, of our place and functioning within it, a vision that extends to celestial regions of space and to interior depths of the human in a manner far exceeding the parameters of our world of technological confinement. ~ Thomas Berry

Let's be honest, the ladies love yellow and green. It's mostly all girls favorite color and I've got the goggles just to add a bit of sophistication ~ Calum Thomas Hood

There is an element of selfishness to this, I suppose. It feels pretty good to be able to so quickly help someone. That is, after all, one of the great emotional payoffs of medicine. That isn't to say that ECT is either a panacea or without flaws - but when used in the right way for the right purposes it's of great benefit, and condemning it because it isn't perfect would lead to more suffering and harm, no less.

It was one of the most difficult things I have ever done in my life. I have memory problems as a residual of it; however, I'm alive. That was the main point. ~ Kitty Dukakis

We run away from one thing into the other and destroy ourselves in the process, he said. We just simply go away until we have given up, so he said. Preference ~ Thomas Bernhard

Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody's business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy. ~ Thomas Merton

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me. ~ Thomas Jefferson

For a moment he seemed impressed with the speaking loneliness of the scene, or rather with the complete abstraction from all its compass of the sights and sounds of man. ~ Thomas Hardy

He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of virtuous living. ~ Thomas Carlyle

We must learn to separate need from greed ... We must not allow our yearnings to exceed our earnings. ~ Thomas S. Monson