Patricia Briggs Quotes

A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now.

When you hear the word 'cancer,' it's as if someone took the game of Life and tossed it in the air. All the pieces go flying. The pieces land on a new board. Everything has shifted. You don't know where to start.

That's when I hit the ground. So in the instant that that round landed and blew me in the air, I had those separate and distinct thoughts. The guy who was standing right next to where I had been standing had a hole in his back I could put my fist into.

My life was a sort of series of random disasters.

I went through a divorce right as we were starting the show. My divorce became final right after we started shooting the first year, and during that time I was in such a low place.

They used a doll when I fall through the ceiling.

The first light of day today revealed what we had feared. The devastation is greater than our worst fears. It's just totally overwhelming.

For me, my awakening came when I was kidnapped.

I was born in a blender.

It's almost like you see too much, because when it happens for real, everything flies at you so fast, you never get a sense of the ice and where everyone is at that one moment.

I had always thought of myself as fairly tough and fairly strong and fairly able to cope with anything. And then I had a series of personal losses. My mother died. A relationship that I was in came to end, and a variety of other things went awry.

We awoke one morning in September, and the world lurched on its axis.

I've never seen such a goddamned mess in my life.

Every war will astonish you.

After my conviction, I was devastated. I had never believed that I would be convicted.

I couldn't deal with a normal life.

My life is just a ridiculous one.

'Sons of the Prophet' is a dark comedy about human suffering. The play explores the particularly messy portions of life - the times where you find yourself coping with multiple life issues, and before any of them can be resolved, two more show up on your plate. We've all been there, I'd wager.

Within a twelve or fourteen month period, I went through a divorce from my wife of 29 years, which is devastating emotionally and earthshaking as far as your whole world being turned upside-down. And within that same twelve month period, I left the Eagles.

Shouldn't the world stop? Don't they know what has happened to me?

Nick shook his head and found to his surprise that he did have tears left after all. He wasn't surprised by a talking cat. The world was crumbling around him and anything could happen.

Unless we have that moment of chaos, followed by the emotional release of realization, nothing will be remembered.

I cannot think of a single word to describe what we feel. I think we all feel it, to varying degrees. Perhaps in some other language there is a word for 'the world is terribly wrong.' That feeling of stun and unbelief and abandonment and shock and horror and distress.

Birth is a shipwreck, the mewling infant shored on unknown land.

No one has the right to live without being shocked.