Tana French Quotes

The only way I can cope is to lock myself in the bathroom and cry. Sometimes I sit there for hours and even eat my lunch sitting on the toilet floor. Anything to get peace and quiet.

After we released 'Drakengard 3', I think everyone was well sick of all the games I made by then, and I really didn't really want to work anymore. I was thinking I'd probably just go and hide in the mountains and live out the rest of my life as a hermit or something.

Please don't tell me to relax, it's only my tension that's holding me together.

too often, the only escape is sleep

I never got to the point when I felt like running away from it all.

Sometimes travelling really intensely for a long time is like having a continuous nervous breakdown.

I just want to get through each day without the need to shut my eyes for 10 minutes.

I don't think I can do this anymore.

I keep waiting for things to get back down to whelming, but they stay at overwhelming.

I am tired of hustling.

Every time I'm shooting a movie I want to kill myself. Because I don't see the light in the end of the tunnel.

I feel the pressure.

I'd go to swim practice, put my face in the water, and I didn't have to talk to anybody. Swimming was like my escape, but it was also like this huge prison because I felt like I had to swim up to people's standards.

I went through absolute stress and mayhem. I couldn't go out, because people were constantly on my back all the time.

I don't want any more vicissitudes, I don't want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I've had it. I am so tired. I am twenty and I am already exhausted.

I'm going to do my best to do both and die of an ulcer at age 30.

I have done so many things and the pressure is so great. I am sure I have been a good deal dehumanized.

… a job of infinite stress

I think the stress will kill me. I think it will be the stress.

I work, and I'm a full-time mom, and it's hard for me to sit down and relax because it's like, 'Crap, there's something I'm forgetting.'

Sometimes...I just want to run away from it all

I don't really compartmentalize well. I'm in a state of anxiety and panic a lot, but it's for different reasons. It used to be because I had nothing going on, but I work very hard and there doesn't seem to be an end to it.

Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?

Sometimes it would be nice not to have to do my best. Sometimes it would just be nice not to have a crisis to deal with. - Anita Blake

Yeah, all those things, responsibility, pressure. It's a bit stressful. I try and come to terms with it by not thinking about it.