Barbara Hall Quotes

“Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.”

“I felt for the first time, maybe ever, how much harder it was to be the adults. And I wasn't sure I could do that when it was my turn.”

“Maybe that is where rhythm comes from, I think. Our earliest understanding of rhythm. The sound of our own breath, the beating of our own hearts.”

“The greatest stories come from trying to make your own contradictions meet and get along.”

“The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark.”

“The writer is obliged to look under every stone. He can and should reject some behaviors or choices in his personal life about him. But he can't help but contemplate the entire spectrum of the human condition.”

“Thinking that you are the worst person in the world is the same as believing that you are the best. It grants you a place in the universe you haven't earned.”

“We must learn to spend life balancing the weight we carry and our feelings.”

“What does a woman want? She wants to be respected, to be listened to and understood, she wants flowers, she wants to laugh, she wants to trust you, she doesn't want to read your mind, she wants to be valued for who she is and sometimes she just wants you to shut up and stop fixing everything.”

“When you hit rock bottom, you lose your fear... and it's fantastic.”

“You believe you have no soul. That's a disorganized thought in my world.”

“You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.”

“Crazy people have color and imagination and the thing is, some of us aren't actually crazy. We're just right.”

“I wanted to smell the guitars. It's hard to explain but they have a smell. And the best way I could ever describe it would be to say they smell like potential. Ambition and desire. If such things had a smell.”

“The thing I didn't see back then is that people can be destroyed by goodness. Damage can be done by hope. If people aren't ready for hope, it's a cruel trick to put it on their doorstep.”