Michael Thomas Ford Quotes

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• I'm still kind of a mess. But I think we all are. No one's got it all together. I don't think you ever do get it totally together. Probably if you did manage to do it you'd spontaneously combust. I think that's a law of nature. If you ever manage to become perfect, you have to die instantly before you ruin things for everyone else.

  Michael Thomas Ford

  Thinking, Law, Perfect

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• Personally, I think they killed the bear because they were afraid of it. That s what people do, kill the things they re afraid of.

  Michael Thomas Ford

  Thinking, People, Bears

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• How come someone always saves the people who try to kill themselves and then makes them tell everyone how sorry they are for ruining their evening? I keep feeling like everyone wants me to apologize for something. but I'm not going to. I don't have anything to apologize for. They're the ones who screwed everything up. Not me. I didn't ask to be saved.

  Michael Thomas Ford

  Sorry, People, Feelings

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• Anyone can be crazy. That's usually just because there's something screwed up in your wiring, you know? But suicide is a whole different thing. I mean, how much do you have to hate yourself to want to just wipe yourself out?

  Michael Thomas Ford

  Suicide, Hate, Crazy

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• Once you realise there's nothing to be afraid of when you die, there's nothing else to worry about.

  Michael Thomas Ford

  Worry, Realising, Dies

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• When people hurt us, the best thing to do isn’t to ask why they did it but to remind ourselves that it wasn’t our fault.

  Michael Thomas Ford

  Hurt, People, Faults

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• Now I just have these reddish scars there. I guess I always will, although Goody says they’ll fade over time. I don’t know if I want them to fade. That probably sounds totally freaky, but part of me doesn’t want to forget what it felt like, even though it hurt. If I forget about the pain, I might also forget that it was a really stupid idea to do it in the first place.

  Michael Thomas Ford

  Hurt, Pain, Stupid

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• So now I'm thinking about it. I'm imagining sitting down with my parents and actually saying, "I'm gay." And you know what? It makes me a little mad. I mean, straight guys don't have to sit their parents down and tell them they like girls.

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  Girl, Mean, Gay

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• I believe that God—if he exists at all—is what we want him to be. The true God is unknowable, and so we dress him up in costumes that make him visible to us. Then we come up with a lot of very silly rules that we attribute to him and tell everyone if they don't follow those rules, they can't be part of the gang.

  Michael Thomas Ford

  Believe, Silly, Dresses

  Michael Thomas Ford (2005). “Looking For It”, p.80, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• I'm tired of people thinking they're doing me favours.

  Michael Thomas Ford

  Tired, Thinking, People

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• Let me tell something, seeing your name and psychiatric ward on the same piece of paper isn't the best way to start your day.

  Michael Thomas Ford

  Names, Pieces, Paper

  Michael Thomas Ford (2011). “Suicide Notes”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• I keep feeling like everyone wants me to apologize for something.

  Michael Thomas Ford

  Feelings, Want, Apologizing

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• If you ever manage to become perfect, you have to die instantly before you ruin things for everyone else.

  Michael Thomas Ford

  Perfect, Ruins, Suicide Note

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• That's what people do. Kill the things they're afraid of.

  Michael Thomas Ford

  People

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• Why is it that you have to warn people about who you are?

  Michael Thomas Ford

  People, Who You Are

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• One time Allie and I skipped school and went to see this foreign film called Los Diablos, where these villagers found a glowing blue ball and peeled pieces off of it to see what was inside. Only the ball was really radioactive, and they all died from the poison. I think that’s what happens when you look too deep inside for the truth. The poison comes out, and you die, even though you have beautiful glowing pieces of blue truth in your fingers.

  Michael Thomas Ford

  Beautiful, School, Thinking

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• No one in France cares if you tried to kill yourself. In fact, I think they like you better because you're all tragic.

  Michael Thomas Ford

  Thinking, Care, France

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• I swear, sometimes it feels like there's this monkey in my head who runs around turning the dials and changing channels on me. One minute I'm sitting around eating chocolate chip cookies and then all of a sudden I'm thinking about bears.

  Michael Thomas Ford

  Running, Thinking, Chocolate

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• Here’s what I think. One, people should figure out that if they go around bothering bears, chances are they’re going to end up bear snacks. Second, people suck.

  Michael Thomas Ford

  Thinking, Snacks, People

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• That sounds so weird: "kill yourself." It makes it sound like you tried to murder someone, only that someone is you. But killing someone is wrong, and I don't think suicide is. It's my life, right? I should be able to end it if I want to. I don't think it's a sin.

  Michael Thomas Ford

  Suicide, Thinking, Killing Someone

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• It's a really crappy feeling to realize that your entire outook on your life can be controlled by some little pill that looks like a Pez, and that some weird combination of drugs can make your brain think it's on a holiday somewhere really sweet when you're standing naked in the middle of the school cafeteria while everyone takes pictures of you. Metaphorically. Or whatever.

  Michael Thomas Ford

  Sweet, School, Holiday

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• It will go away... The stuff in your head. Little by little.

  Michael Thomas Ford

  Going Away, Littles, Stuff

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• I know all about dreams that make you want to scream.

  Michael Thomas Ford

  Dream, Want, Scream

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• I’ve been thinking about that ever since. Am I lucky? Am I lucky that I didn’t die? Am I lucky that, compared to the other kids here, my life doesn’t seem so bad? Maybe I am, but I have to say, I don’t feel lucky. For one thing, I’m stuck in this pit. And just because your life isn’t as awful as someone else’s, that doesn’t mean it doesn’t suck. You can’t compare how you feel to the way other people feel. It just doesn’t work. What might look like the perfect life—or even an okay life—to you might not be so okay for the person living it.

  Michael Thomas Ford

  Mean, Kids, Thinking

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• And anyway, the truth isn't all that great. I mean, what's the truth? Planes falling out of the sky. Buses blowing up and ripping little kids into millions of pieces. Twelve-year-olds raping people and then shooting them in the head so they can't tell. I can't watch the news anymore or look at the papers. It's like whoever sits up there in Heaven has this big bag of really crappy stuff, and once or twice a day she or he reaches in and sprinkles a little bit of it over the world and makes everything crazy, like fairy dust that's past its expiration date.

  Michael Thomas Ford

  Crazy, Fall, Mean

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