Elisa Quotes

“I fear that this is what long term relationships are all about, at base: full-time role-playing, memorized and inhabited.”

“All right. Let’s pretend I’m so incredibly happy my brain is thinking about rainbows and butterflies and I’m waving good morning to the mailman. I let my guard down. Next thing I know, something takes a dark turn. But I don’t even realize it because I’m over here staring at a bright patch of happy light. All of a sudden, I’ve fallen into a hole and have no rope, no ladder, and the walls are too slippery to climb out of. Happiness makes me lose focus. It makes me weak. I can’t stand it. Does that make sense to you now?”

“The world is not full of crazy ninja perfume ladies!”

“What is the matter with you?""You want an alphabetical list?”

“It's decidedly bizzare, when the Worst Thing hppens and you find yourself still conscious, still breathing.”

“A matter, as the famous book intoned, of finding the shade of the parachute that best complemented you. But really: With no parachute at all you'd hit the pavement so hard it probably wouldn't even hurt, and you'd unleash a whole new color palate-bone, blood, muscle-in the process.”

“Perfection is, after all, a form of banality.”

“Instead of making decisions based on safety, security, or practicality, the Soul wants us to live our lives according to what we find to be most beautiful.”

“It is pure devotion that consistently, unwaveringly moves us from control to Soul.”

“Your Soul sees your best, most vital self. She holds that vision when you do not. She knows you are worthy.”