She had learned the self-deprecating ways of the woman who does not want to be thought hard and grasping, but her artifices could not always cover the nakedness of her need to excel. Faith Sullivan More Quotes by Faith Sullivan More Quotes From Faith Sullivan Poverty made me feel weak, as if I were coming down with an awful, debilitating, communicable disease - the disease of being without money. Instead of going to the hospital, you went to the poor farm. The difference was, you never got well at the poor farm. Faith Sullivan awfuldifferencesdisease Sometimes the best things in life are unexpected. Faith Sullivan unexpectedthings-in-lifeexpectations Not everything in church is truth ... And not all truth turns up in church. Faith Sullivan turnschurchreligion He found me when I was at my lowest point. Faith Sullivan lowestlowest-pointfound you couldn't talk yourself into love any more than you could talk yourelf out of it. Faith Sullivan Yet the past has a will of its own, and you must learn to entertain it, because it will visit, invited or not. Faith Sullivan invitedpast Better to fail at what you love than succeed at what you hate. People have strange ideas about success ... too much to do with money, not enough to do with joy. Faith Sullivan hatesuccessideas Some people say that suicide is a sin, but I have never believed that. I say it's God's way of calling certain folks home early. It's much nicer than an awful accident, where the rest of us are left wondering if the person really wanted to go. Faith Sullivan suicidehomepeople For my money, there are no more fascinating, hard-working, vulnerable creatures on earth than writers. Every day, they lay their souls out there for public approval or rejection. Faith Sullivan rejectionhard-worksoul I know this much: if you gotta write, honey, you gotta write. Some call it a disease, some a madness. Ah, but I call it love. Faith Sullivan diseasewritinghoney Living on hope is like being hungry all the time. Faith Sullivan living-onhungryhope If you don't kill yourself right away when something terrible happens ... if you go on living, you become a different person. Faith Sullivan differentgriefgoes-on gardening is a madness and a rapture. Faith Sullivan rapturegardeningmadness Part of the business of being an artist is abetting talent. The best do that. Faith Sullivan being-an-artisttalentartist There was a strange kind of comfort in misunderstandings and differences that were old enough to have lost their teeth. Faith Sullivan teethdifferencescomfort I always fantasized about having a girl stand on my bar like in that movie Coyote Ugly, but I never thought it would happen. Faith Sullivan coyotesbarsgirl Another chapter closes before it has the chance to begin Faith Sullivan chapterschance I'm making out with a dead girl in my dreams. I'm screwing women I have no business screwing. I'm pushing away the one person who actually gives a damn about me. It's like the Bermuda Triangle of heartache and I'm sinking fast. Faith Sullivan heartachegirldream Chemistry's a tricky thing, and if I'm not feeling it, I'm not gonna pretend. Faith Sullivan trickychemistryfeelings Why do you still feel the need to punish yourself for something that was out of your control? Faith Sullivan stillsfeelsneeds
