Thea Hillman Quotes

Sorrow is humbling. I want my pain to be fabulous. I don't need my pain to be worse than anyone else's; I just want it to be strangely, uniquely mine. Art to someone else's breakdown.
- Thea Hillman, "Dear Kath After"
from the anthology Pills, Thrills, Chills, and Heartache ~ Clint Catalyst

I'm tired of resisting love. Love will never be safe, but we've seen the alternative. ~ Thea Hillman

We're a group of people whose misunderstanding of each other is only topped by people's misunderstanding of us. ~ Thea Hillman

That's my wish for our community, as it were, that during this very confusing and amazing time, we be gentle with ourselves, and with each other. ~ Thea Hillman

Sophie don't do nothing Sophie don't want. ~ Thea Harrison

There's nothing you could do that I haven't seen an army of uglier, hairier people do thousands of times before. ~ Thea Harrison

You're mine," he said. "You can deny it, argue, throw fits, try to run away. But. You're. Still. Mine."

~Dragos ~ Thea Harrison

There was no surviving some loves. No matter what happened to the love affair, whether it flourished or failed, those loves struck mortal blows one carried for the rest of one's life. ~ Thea Harrison

She put her hands to her face and rubbed, then dug her fingers into her scalp, trying to massage some life back into her tired brain. ~ Thea Harrison

To live sacred lives requires that we live at the edge of what we do not know. ~ Anne Hillman

Mediocrity is no answer to violence. In fact, it probably invites violence. At least the mediocre and the violent appear together as in the old Western movies - the ruffian outlaw band shooting up main street and the little white church with the little white schoolteacher wringing her hands. To cool violence you need rhythm, humor, tempering; you need dance and rhetoric. Not therapeutic understanding. ~ James Hillman

Sometimes the single-syllable conversations are the most important ones. ~ Thea Harrison

Pia, you're a bitch. Thank you. ~ Thea Harrison

But it was kind of a major clue when a lady ran away from a bloke.
That said something, it did. That was a signpost that read: approach with caution. Falling rock up ahead. Handle with care. You've come so far with her, much further than you ever thought you'd get. Don't fucking blow it now, son.
That signpost was one of the busiest he had ever laid eyes on. It had a hell of a lot of text. He figured pausing to read all of that was a good thing. ~ Thea Harrison

Payback and death weren't the dragon's only companions. He was on intimate terms with chaos and strife too." Dragos ~ Thea Harrison

That night he ate so much spaghetti, Mom said he was in danger of turning into a big noodle, which made him laugh so hard, he fell out of his chair. ~ Thea Harrison

These jokers were not that complicated. Death-by-stupidity was the cause as far as Tiago was concerned. ~ Thea Harrison

Did you kill the Fae horses?"
The whuffling stopped. Dragos said in a cautious voice, "Was I not supposed to?"
She shrugged. "It just wasn't their fault."
"If it helps any, I was hungry and ate one. ~ Thea Harrison

She shook her head. "I don't know who the hell you are," she told the woman in the mirror. "But you look mighty cute. ~ Thea Harrison

You may not become a celebrity. You may even experience lots of illness or divorce, or unhappiness. But I think there is still a thread of individual character that determines how you live through those things. ~ James Hillman

To hope for nothing, to expect nothing, to demand nothing. This is analytical despair. ~ James Hillman

Damn. Did that twee little chick just pull off scary? ~ Thea Harrison

What ages is not merely your functions and organs, but the whole of your nature, that particular person you have come to be and already were years ago. ~ James Hillman

For surely the gods would know better than she what to make of this hot, beautiful grief, the gods who had, after all, created her with such a fierce, lonesome soul. ~ Thea Harrison

You know what I do on Sundays? I sing in a choir. I sing in a Greek Orthodox choir, and I'm the only hillbilly tenor in the Orthodox Church. ~ Chris Hillman

Trying to care about that," he said. He cocked his head and widened his eyes. "Huh. I guess I'm not managing it. ~ Thea Harrison

Yes, we worship the idea of the "self-made man" - otherwise we'd go on strike against Bill Gates having all that money! We worship that idea. ~ James Hillman

She thought of him sprawled in the armchair in the downstairs study, calmly demolishing pastry after pastry while Aubrey looked at him in shock. Or what about that god-awful dinner? A variety of people looked daggers at him and tried several times to deliver a direct verbal cut, while he plowed through alarming amounts of beautifully prepared food with evident enjoyment for the cuisine and a monumental indifference for anybody else's opinion. ~ Thea Harrison

Oh, fuck Zen," she muttered. "I'll get enlightened when I die. ~ Thea Harrison

You've eaten Goblin!" she exclaimed. "No," he said, "I've bitten Goblin. ~ Thea Harrison

Psychology, so dedicated to awakening human consciousness, needs to wake itself up to one of the most ancient human truths: we cannot be studied or cured apart from the planet. ~ James Hillman

Tell me what the fuck you want me to do, and I'll do it. ~ Thea Harrison

Gods, this woman was hotter than Death Valley in July. ~ Thea Harrison

You are mine. You are always going to be mine. It doesn't matter what came before, the only thing that matters is what is now and going forward. There will never be anyone else for you. Only me. Me. ~ Thea Harrison

What will the last syllable of recorded time be, and who will be the one to write it? No matter how long we live, we still wonder when our world will end and how. ~ Thea Harrison

The gruff gryphon's voice turned gentle. What am I, chopped liver? You beat the crap out of me this afternoon. That pretty much makes us pals in my book. ~ Thea Harrison

Draco.
Finally. Now that the other male had realized who Dragos was, maybe he would grow some sanity and leave them the hell alone. ~ Thea Harrison

The Byrds weren't rock n' roll guys. We were kinda like your Seekers ... folkies who took it a step further. ~ Chris Hillman

Death was a thief that always wore a mask. Accident, disease, stillbirths, old age, natural causes, war, murder. It existed in the shivering silence between tolls of a bell. It stole everything away while it left its mark, a dark knowledge that lingered at the back of smiling eyes, a hesitation between thought and action in times of danger, a heaviness that tunneled wormholes into happy memories. ~ Thea Harrison

The more you try to be interested in other people, the more you find out about yourself ~ Thea Astley

All of the women in that time and place, Thea had learned, were stuffed into muslin and starched cotton and forced to sit ramrod-straight and plait their hair or pull it back off their faces with fish oil. There were shoes that laced up with a hundred eyelets, and corsets that required a special hook to open. Women were all in it together back then, as opposed to now, when one woman's experience could differ so greatly from another's that you never knew who you were talking to. ~ Meg Wolitzer

The harpy's eyes were wide with wonder. So that's Adriyel. No wonder it's famous in poems and shit. ~ Thea Harrison