Million Little Pieces Quotes

• The Young Man came to the Old Man seeking counsel. I broke something, Old Man. How badly is it broken? It's in a million little pieces. I'm afraid I can't help you. Why? There's nothing you can do. Why? It can't be fixed. Why? It's broken beyond repair. It's in a million little pieces.

  James Frey

  Men, Broken, Pieces

  James Frey (2004). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.10, Anchor

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• When I started writing 'A Million Little Pieces,' I felt like it was the right story with the style I had been looking for, and I just kept going.

  James Frey

  Writing, Style, Stories

  "The man who rewrote his life" by Laura Barton, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2006.

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• The wounds that never heal can only be mourned alone.

  James Frey

  Get Well, Heal, Wounds

  James Frey (2004). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.270, Anchor

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• Sometimes skulls are thick. Sometimes hearts are vacant. Sometimes words don't work.

  James Frey

  Hipster, Heart, Skulls

  James Frey (2003). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.287, Rutgers University Press

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• Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don't think you can, hold on.

  James Frey

  Inspirational, Strength, Inspiring

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• I'm tired of making people sad and I'm tired of disappointing them and I'm tired of seeing them break. I have seen this too many times. He will be the last.

  James Frey

  Tired, People, Lasts

  James Frey (2004). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.135, Anchor

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• All of us started normal. All of us started out as functioning human beings with the potential to do almost anything we wanted, but somewhere along the paths of our lives, we got lost.

  James Frey

  Path, Normal, Lost

  James Frey (2004). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.456, Anchor

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• Even a second of freedom is worth more than a lifetime of bondage.

  James Frey

  Freedom, Lifetime, Bondage

  James Frey (2009). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.267, Hachette UK

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• When I see you, the World stops. It stops and all that exists for me is you and my eyes staring at you. There's nothing else. No noise, no other people, no thoughts or worries, no yesterday, no tomorrow. The World just stops, and it is a beautiful place, and there is only you.

  James Frey

  Beautiful, Eye, Yesterday

  James Frey (2004). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.260, Anchor

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• I turn and I slowly walk away and I don't look back. It has always been a fault of mine, but it is the way I am. I never look back. Never.

  James Frey

  Looks, Pieces, Way

  James Frey (2004). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.106, Anchor

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• I would like to be soft and warm. I would be terrified to be that way. I could be hurt if I were soft and warm. I could be hurt by something other than myself. It is harder to be soft than it is to be hard. I could be hurt by something other than myself.

  James Frey

  Hurt, Would Be, Pieces

  James Frey (2004). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.281, Anchor

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• Let things be, let yourself be, let everything be and accept it as it is. Nothing more. Nothing less.

  James Frey

  Accepting

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• Part of me still loves. More of me doesn't.

  James Frey

  Stills

  James Frey (2004). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.177, Anchor

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• There is no fear. Absolutely no fear. When one lives without fear, one cannot be broken. When one lives with fear one is broken before one begins to live.

  James Frey

  Broken, No Fear, Live Without Fear

  James Frey (2004). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.316, Anchor

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• The one word love means too little for what it is. It doesn't communicate even a fraction of the feelings involved. Love. The word is not enough for what it is. Love. Love.

  James Frey

  Mean, Feelings, Littles

  James Frey (2003). “A Million Little Pieces”

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• In my mind my obituary is done.It is done and it is right. It tells the truth and as awful as it can be, the truth is what matters. It is what I should be remembered by, if I'm remembered at all. Remember the truth. that is all that matters

  James Frey

  What Matters, Mind, Done

  James Frey (2003). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.87, Rutgers University Press

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• I stand, walk over to him, sit down on his bed, put my arms around him, hug him. He hugs me back strong and I can feel the shame coming through his arms. I am a Criminal and he is a Judge and I am white and he is black, but at this moment none of that matters. He is a man who needs a friends and I can be his friend.

  James Frey

  Strong, Men, White

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• Everything I know and I am and I have seen felt done past present past now then before now seen felt done hurt felt focus into a something beyond words beyond beyond beyond and it speaks now and it says. Stay. Fight. Live. Take it.

  James Frey

  Hurt, Fighting, Past

  James Frey (2004). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.223, Anchor

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• Little Alice, all hollowed out, so easy to smash into a million little pieces.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Pieces, Littles, Easy

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• It's cold and it's winter and the world has gone to sleep

  James Frey

  Sleep, Winter, Gone

  James Frey (2004). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.56, Anchor

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• I think of how and why and what happened and the thoughts come easily, but the answers don't.

  James Frey

  Thinking, Answers, Self Loathing

  James Frey (2004). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.44, Anchor

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• Words can't say this. The one word love means too little for what it is. It means everything and that is still not enough.

  James Frey

  Mean, Littles, Enough

  James Frey (2003). “A Million Little Pieces”

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• That the world I was in could be soft, lovely, and nourishing was more than I could bear, and so I stood there and wept, for I didn't want to love one more thing in my life, didn't want one more thing that could make my heart break into a million little pieces at my feet.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Heart, Feet, Lovely

  Jamaica Kincaid (2002). “Lucy: A Novel”, p.23, Macmillan

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• As a blogger, Chez Pazienza is filled with outrage, passion and insight -- delivered with a distinctive point of view, a wicked sense of humor, and a two-fisted style of prose. In Dead Star Twilight, he turns all these on himself -- and produces a fierce, funny, disturbing, but ultimately uplifting memoir. This is the book A Million Little Pieces dreamed of being.

  Arianna Huffington

  Uplifting, Stars, Book

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• I am disappointed by this controversy surrounding A Million Little Pieces because I rely on the publishers to define the category that a book falls within and also the authenticity of the work.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Book, Fall, Littles

  "CNN Larry King Live". Interview With James Frey, transcripts.cnn.com. January 11, 2006.

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