Dorothy Allison Quotes

I don't know what is to be done. This isn't war.

Only when we are sick and tired of being sick and tired do any of us do something different.

...a disgruntled reflection on my own life as a sort of desperate improvisation in which I was constantly trying to make something coherent from conflicting elements to fit rapidly changing settings.

Ye immortal gods! where in the world are we?

I don't know why this world keeps turning, round and round. But I wish it would stop and let me off right now!

Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world.

At a certain stage of misery, you'll try anything to explain what's going on with you, even if you know it doesn't explain a thing and it's one failed explanation after another.

And what am I to do on the occasion? -- It seems an hopeless business.

It was like the entire world was colluding to make me feel insane, and it was doing a really good job.

I'm trying to keep up with what's happening in this turbulent world.

I need a life. I need a friend. I need a change. But nothing ever changes.

Our life seems cursed to be a wiggle merely, and a wandering without end.

What do you mean, what's the matter with him? Nothing's the matter with him, everything's the matter with him, the same as it is with everybody else. He's just fine. He gets overwhelmed now and then, and he doesn't know how to say what he feels or means, so he cries and runs off a little, trying to find out where to go, for God's sake. Where can you go?

But I'm taking small steps 'Cause I don't know where I'm going I'm taking small steps And I don't know what to say. Small steps, Trying to pull myself together And maybe I'll discover A clue along the way!

Words fail me sometimes. I have read most every word in the Webster’s International Dictionary of the English Language, but I still have trouble making them come when I want them to. Right now I want a word that describes the feeling you get – a cold sick feeling deep down inside – when you know something is happening that will change you, and you don’t want it to, but you can’t stop it. And you know you will never be the same again.

If you want to change this world, this community that we all live in, then get up and do it. And just start something.

The world according to Bubba is simple - if it aggravates you, stop it. By whatever means necessary.

We have the power to make the world we seek, but only if we have the courage to make a new beginning.

Lately, I feel like my life is a book written in a language I don't know how to read.

I just stand there like a doofus wondering just what in the effing blazes is going on.

If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.

Certes, je sortirai quant a' moi satisfait D'un monde o u' l'action n'est pas la soeur du re" ve. Indeed, for my part, I shall be happy to leave A world where action is not sister to the dream.

There was something about the music on that tape. It felt different. Like, it set her lungs and her stomach on edge. There was something exciting about it, and something nervous. It made Eleanor feel like everything, like the world, wasn't what she'd thought it was. And that was a good thing. That was the greatest thing.

The world is still spinning and so are we and so are you. When the spinning stops - that'll be the time to worry. Not before.

We have been sitting here all night bullshitting and we still don’t know what to do.