I just started trying to figure out how to write [something] which was unlike anything anybody had ever seen, and once I felt like I had figured that out I tried to figure out what kind of book I could write that would be unlike anything anybody had ever seen. 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

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And loss of control is always the source of fear. It is also, how... by James Frey

And loss of control is always the source of fear. It is also, however, always the source of change.

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The wounds that never heal can only be mourned alone. by James Frey

The wounds that never heal can only be mourned alone.

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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.

eye yesterday beautiful

I close my eyes and I take a deep breath and I think about my life and how I ended up this way. I think about the ruin, devastation and wreckage I have caused to myself and to others. I think about self-hatred and self-loathing. I think about how and why and what happened and the thoughts come easily, but the answers don't.

eye self thinking

Sometimes skulls are thick. Sometimes hearts are vacant. Sometime... by James Frey

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

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About life: "It is not complicated unless I make it so. It is not difficult unless I allow it to be. A second is no more than a second, a minute no more than a minute, a day no more than a day. They pass. All things and all time will pass. Don't force or fear, don't control or lose control. Don't fight and don't stop fighting. Embrace and endure. If you embrace, you will endure.

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And as ridiculous as it may sound, sometimes all any of us needs in life is for someone to hold our hand and walk next to us.

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Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don't think... by James Frey

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

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When something is staring you in the face in your life and you see it with your own two eyes and feel it within your heart only a fool doesn't believe it to be true.

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

million-little-pieces accepting

Some people think memoirs should be held to a perfect journalistic standard. Some people don't. Obviously I don't. My goal was never to create or to write a perfect journalistic standard of my life. It was always to be as literature.

writing people thinking

The afternoon and the early evening slide by in a lidded daze where the ability to think in any identifiable way disappears and where every moment seems to be an eternity.

daze afternoon thinking

Live and let live, do not judge, take life as it comes and deal w... by James Frey

Live and let live, do not judge, take life as it comes and deal with it, everything will be okay.

live-and-let-live okay judging

I always wanted to be the outlaw. And that's to a certain extent... by James Frey

I always wanted to be the outlaw. And that's to a certain extent how I've lived.

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I have a great amount of confidence and faith in my abilities to write. There are other areas of my life where I'm not as confident, and have not as much faith, but when it comes down to writing and working, I don't worry about it. I trust myself to get it right.

trust-myself worry writing

There are no words and there is no singing, but the music has a voice. It is an old voice and a deep voice, like the stump of a sweet cigar or a shoe with a hole. It is a voice that has lived and lives, with sorrow and shame, ecstasy and bliss, joy and pain, redemption and damnation. It is a voice with love and without love. I like the voice, and though I can't talk to it, I like the way it talks to me. It says it is all the same, Young Man. Take it and let it be.

pain sweet men

I felt like I had lost something. But not something silly, like my keys or my gum; more like my arm or my foot, something that really mattered. Like something that I could live without, but would make life much harder if it were missing. And life is hard enough. Life is hard enough with everything we're given.

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...we got this gift of life and we got it one time and we gonna get hurt in it and be hurt going through it and the only thing that'll make that hurt better or hurt less is love.

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This Girl with nothing but her own strength and a desire to be free. With nothing but a beating heart that is scared to be alone. With nothing but clear blue eyes that see through me and understand me. With nothing but open arms ready to receive me. To stand by me. To walk with me. To love me. I love her. Lilly. The Girl with nothing and everything. Lilly. I love her. A tear appears. She smiles. She leans forward kisses my lips softly kisses me and as our lips touch barely touch she whispers. I love you too, James. Our lips barely touching she whispers. I love you. Whispers. I love you.

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Fear, he said, ran all of our lives. Fear, he said, after religion, was the most destructive force in the world.

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