Faith Sullivan Quotes

• Sometimes the best things in life are unexpected.

  Faith Sullivan

  Things In Life, Expectations, Unexpected

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• Poverty made me feel weak, as if I were coming down with an awful, debilitating, communicable disease - the disease of being without money. Instead of going to the hospital, you went to the poor farm. The difference was, you never got well at the poor farm.

  Faith Sullivan

  Differences, Disease, Awful

  Faith Sullivan (2011). “The Cape Ann: A Novel”, p.136, Broadway Books

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• I know this much: if you gotta write, honey, you gotta write. Some call it a disease, some a madness. Ah, but I call it love.

  Faith Sullivan

  Writing, Disease, Honey

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• Not everything in church is truth ... And not all truth turns up in church.

  Faith Sullivan

  Religion, Church, Turns

  Faith Sullivan (2011). “The Cape Ann: A Novel”, p.198, Broadway Books

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• Yet the past has a will of its own, and you must learn to entertain it, because it will visit, invited or not.

  Faith Sullivan

  Past, Invited

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• He found me when I was at my lowest point.

  Faith Sullivan

  Found, Lowest Point, Lowest

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• Better to fail at what you love than succeed at what you hate. People have strange ideas about success ... too much to do with money, not enough to do with joy.

  Faith Sullivan

  Success, Hate, Ideas

  Faith Sullivan (1997). “The Empress of One”

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• Living on hope is like being hungry all the time.

  Faith Sullivan

  Hope, Hungry, Living On

  Faith Sullivan (1985). “Mrs. Demming and the Mythical Beast”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• This is New York, babe. Be ready to expect anything.

  Faith Sullivan

  New York, Babe, Ready

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• Part of the business of being an artist is abetting talent. The best do that.

  Faith Sullivan

  Artist, Talent, Being An Artist

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• For my money, there are no more fascinating, hard-working, vulnerable creatures on earth than writers. Every day, they lay their souls out there for public approval or rejection.

  Faith Sullivan

  Hard Work, Rejection, Soul

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• Some people say that suicide is a sin, but I have never believed that. I say it's God's way of calling certain folks home early. It's much nicer than an awful accident, where the rest of us are left wondering if the person really wanted to go.

  Faith Sullivan

  Suicide, Home, People

  Faith Sullivan (2011). “The Cape Ann: A Novel”, p.296, Broadway Books

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• If you don't kill yourself right away when something terrible happens ... if you go on living, you become a different person.

  Faith Sullivan

  Grief, Different, Goes On

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• you couldn't talk yourself into love any more than you could talk yourelf out of it.

  Faith Sullivan

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• There was a strange kind of comfort in misunderstandings and differences that were old enough to have lost their teeth.

  Faith Sullivan

  Differences, Comfort, Teeth

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• gardening is a madness and a rapture.

  Faith Sullivan

  Gardening, Madness, Rapture

  Faith Sullivan (2012). “What a Woman Must Do: A Novel”, p.11, Random House

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• Why do you still feel the need to punish yourself for something that was out of your control?

  Faith Sullivan

  Needs, Feels, Stills

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• If you're around someone who makes you feel good, you have to go for it. Don't hold back.

  Faith Sullivan

  Feel Good, Make You Feel Good, Feels

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• I'm making out with a dead girl in my dreams. I'm screwing women I have no business screwing. I'm pushing away the one person who actually gives a damn about me. It's like the Bermuda Triangle of heartache and I'm sinking fast.

  Faith Sullivan

  Girl, Dream, Heartache

  Faith Sullivan (2013). “Come What May”, p.74, Faith Sullivan

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• Another chapter closes before it has the chance to begin

  Faith Sullivan

  Chance, Chapters

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• I always fantasized about having a girl stand on my bar like in that movie Coyote Ugly, but I never thought it would happen.

  Faith Sullivan

  Girl, Coyotes, Bars

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• Chemistry's a tricky thing, and if I'm not feeling it, I'm not gonna pretend.

  Faith Sullivan

  Feelings, Chemistry, Tricky

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