Ann Brashares Quotes

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

There's a lot of effort expended once you begin to completely trash your life. Sometimes, writing feels like this to me.

I love stories about people who are smart enough to know that what they're doing is destroying them, but that knowing that doesn't help them.

I wonder if I will ever have the strength to hold onto something. Or if I will always be someone who destroys.

The surest source of destruction to men is to obey themselves.

If you want to beat me up, feel free. You cannot beat me up more than I have already beaten up myself.

I think the main thing I remembered throughout all of filming it was just that she just was extremely self-destructive. I think everybody can relate to that a little bit. She doesn't like herself.

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.

I can be very self-destructive, but quietly.

It's been said to me that I'm self-destructive because I'll walk away from things that are good.

I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.

I definitely have a real self-destructive streak.

When you're at war with yourself, you will go under.

I'm incredibly self-destructive.

Self-destructive patterns cause as much suffering as outer catastrophes.

It's weird, I was such a survivor and so wanted to be a part of life while I was trying to snuff out the life that was inside of me. I had this duality of trying to kill myself with drugs, then eating really good food and exercising and going swimming and trying to be a part of life. I was always going back and forth on some level.

When the beginnings of self destruction enter the heart, it seems no bigger than a grain of sand.

Damned indecision and cursed pride.

All my life I've always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.

I don't know why, but there's always the part of you, the part that hides in the shadows protecting the self-destruct button, that doesn't ever want to leave the dark behind.

The wolf howled under the leaves And spit out the prettiest feathers Of his meal of fowl: Like him I consume myself.

You would love the way he sees you. He uses you as a weapon against himself and not merely because you did

It's a compulsive need to wreck everything. You might notice there's a pattern of stripping down and building back up again throughout my life. But I guess that's how some of us conduct our lives.

I'm a very emotional person, a person of real extremes, and that's often destructive both to myself and others.