"We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves" Quotes
A young woman unravels the mysteries of her unconventional family, revealing the profound impact of an unusual sibling experiment involving a chimpanzee.
fiction | 310 pages | Published in 2013
Quotes
The truth is a cave in the black mountains. There is one way there, and one way only, and that way is treacherous and hard. And if you choose the wrong path you will die alone, on the mountainside.
We are all completely beside ourselves.
It's a hopeful book. It's about what's possible.
What matters, what's always mattered, is that we tell the story. Joy, sorrow, loss and achievement, all of it. We tell the story.
We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.
And one more thing: I've learned that I love the truth more than I love my own myth.
Forgive yourself, Kitty. We're all walking a line between hope and despair.
It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.
I think the things we remember are the things that matter.
The thing about distress is that it's a more honest condition than happiness.
