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James Christopher Frey is an American writer and the founder and CEO of Full Fathom Five, a transmedia production company responsible for the young adult series "The Lorien Legacies" it had 7 books and was written by Frey and others, under the collective pen name Pittacus Lore. Frey's first book of the series, I Am Number Four , was made into a feature film by DreamWorks Studios.

His two first books, A Million Little Pieces and My Friend Leonard , were marketed as memoirs, but large parts of the stories were later found to be exaggerated or fabricated. His 2008 novel Bright Shiny Morning was also a bestseller.

✵ 12. September 1969  •  Other names جيمس فراي, جیمز فری
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Works

A Million Little Pieces
The Final Testament of the Holy Bible
My Friend Leonard
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Famous James Frey Quotes

“There are never words for the strongest of our feelings. There is just the pain that we cannot share. Pain we must all feel alone.”

James Frey book The Final Testament of the Holy Bible

Source: The Final Testament of the Holy Bible

“Leonard asks me if there's anything I need to know before he dies, I think about it for a minute, turn to him, say what's the meaning of life, Leonard? He laughs, says that's an easy one, my son, it's whatever you want it to be.”

James Frey My Friend Leonard

Source: My Friend Leonard

“I meet a third man he's an old man he trips in the street he falls and I help him up, walk him to the curb. He shakes my hand says keep the faith, young man. I ask him what he means, he says keep running and don't let them catch you.”

James Frey My Friend Leonard

Source: My Friend Leonard

“I think of how and why and what happened and the thoughts come easily, but the answers don't.”

James Frey book A Million Little Pieces

Source: A Million Little Pieces

James Frey Quotes about life

“This is how it has always been with me. Give me something good, I’ll destroy it. Love me, I’ll destroy you. I have never felt deserving of anything in my life.”

James Frey book A Million Little Pieces

Source: A Million Little Pieces

“In life we often look to others for simple, but difficult answers, despite the fact that we have those answers ourselves.”

James Frey book The Final Testament of the Holy Bible

Source: The Final Testament of the Holy Bible

“What's crazy is living your life according to some book written by someone who couldn't imagine what your life would be like.”

James Frey book The Final Testament of the Holy Bible

Source: The Final Testament of the Holy Bible

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

James Frey book A Million Little Pieces

Source: A Million Little Pieces

“There is, though, nothing that prepares us for the worst things in our life. There is nothing you can do to stop the shock, or buffer the pain.”

James Frey book The Final Testament of the Holy Bible

Source: The Final Testament of the Holy Bible

“And even though people try to pretend that pain doesn't do anything to them, none of us can really handle it. Everything bad we do in our life is because of pain of some kind.”

James Frey book The Final Testament of the Holy Bible

Source: The Final Testament of the Holy Bible

James Frey Quotes about love

“The one word love means too little for what it is. It doesn't communicate even a fraction of the feelings involved. Love. The word is not enough for what it is. Love. Love.”

James Frey book A Million Little Pieces

Source: A Million Little Pieces

“Laughing and Love. They are both drugs.”

James Frey

“In Lilly's eyes her beautiful clear water eyes there is what I have sought and never found, wanted and never had, hoped for and never discovered. Love.”

James Frey

“But love is different for every person. For some it's hate, for some it's joy, for some it's fear, for some it's jealousy, for some it's torture, for some it's peace. For some it's everything.”

James Frey book The Final Testament of the Holy Bible

Source: The Final Testament of the Holy Bible

“Love only brought me lonliness and horror.”

James Frey book A Million Little Pieces

Source: A Million Little Pieces

“Part of me still loves. More of me doesn't.”

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

James Frey book A Million Little Pieces

page 323
Source: A Million Little Pieces (2003)

“The wounds that never heal can only be mourned alone.”

James Frey book A Million Little Pieces

Source: A Million Little Pieces

“Pain is the feeling. Suffering is the effect the pain inflicts. If one can endure pain, one can live without suffering. If one can withstand pain, one can withstand anything. If one can learn to control pain, one can learn to control oneself.”

James Frey My Friend Leonard

Source: My Friend Leonard

James Frey Quotes

“I turn and I slowly walk away and I don't look back. It has always been a fault of mine, but it is the way I am. I never look back. Never.”

James Frey book A Million Little Pieces

Source: A Million Little Pieces

“There is no fear. Absolutely no fear. When one lives without fear, one cannot be broken. When one lives with fear one is broken before one begins to live.”

James Frey book A Million Little Pieces

Source: A Million Little Pieces

“More than anything, all I have ever wanted is to be close to someone. More than anything, all I have ever wanted is to feel as if I wasn't alone.”

James Frey book A Million Little Pieces

page 80
Source: A Million Little Pieces (2003)

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

James Frey book A Million Little Pieces

Source: A Million Little Pieces

“Everything I know and I am and I have seen felt done past present past now then before now seen felt done hurt felt focus into a something beyond words beyond beyond beyond and it speaks now and it says.
Stay.
Fight.
Live.
Take it.”

James Frey book A Million Little Pieces

Source: A Million Little Pieces

“Be content with what you have and take joy in the way things are. When you realize you have all you need, the World belongs to you.”

James Frey book A Million Little Pieces

Source: A Million Little Pieces

“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.”

James Frey book The Final Testament of the Holy Bible

Source: The Final Testament of the Holy Bible

“Are we biology or God or something higher? I know my heart beats and I listen to it. The beat is biology, but what is the song?”

James Frey

“I feel strong. Not strong enough to face myself, but strong enough to keep going.”

James Frey book A Million Little Pieces

Source: A Million Little Pieces

“It's cold and it's winter and the world has gone to sleep”

James Frey book A Million Little Pieces

Source: A Million Little Pieces

“The past doesn't matter. People cling to it because it allows them to ignore the present.”

James Frey book The Final Testament of the Holy Bible

Source: The Final Testament of the Holy Bible

“Stay.
Fight.
Live.
Take it.
Cry.
Cry.
Cry.”

James Frey

“Be smart, be strong, be proud, live honorably and with dignity, and just hold on.”

James Frey book A Million Little Pieces

Variant: Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don't think you can, hold on.
Source: A Million Little Pieces

“You only live once, buy Picassos whenever possible.”

James Frey My Friend Leonard

Source: My Friend Leonard

“Trauma is survivable, but often not much more. It kills you while allowing you to still live.”

James Frey book The Final Testament of the Holy Bible

Source: The Final Testament of the Holy Bible

“Addicts, as a group, generally score far above average o intelligence tests.
Why?
You tell me.
I guess maybe we're smart enough to have figured out how shitty things are and we decide addiction is the only way to deal with it.”

James Frey book A Million Little Pieces

Source: A Million Little Pieces

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

James Frey book The Final Testament of the Holy Bible

Source: The Final Testament of the Holy Bible

“I'm tired of making people sad and I'm tired of disappointing them and I'm tired of seeing them break. I have seen this too many times. He will be the last.”

James Frey book A Million Little Pieces

Source: A Million Little Pieces

“Sleep is still difficult I sleep for three or four hours a day. Usually sometime in the afternoon. I walk in the cold, keep myself numb. I cry less, and less." (James Frey, pg.88)”

James Frey My Friend Leonard

Source: My Friend Leonard

“To live with angels and chase their dreams.”

James Frey Bright Shiny Morning

Source: Bright Shiny Morning

“The promise of eternal life makes people forsake the life they're given.”

James Frey book The Final Testament of the Holy Bible

Source: The Final Testament of the Holy Bible

“I go to my Room and I drink and I smoke some cigarettes and I think about her. I drink and I smoke and I think about her and at a certain point blackness comes and my memory fails me.”

James Frey book A Million Little Pieces

Source: A Million Little Pieces

“She made me feel better than I have ever felt, better than I imagined I could feel, and it scared me, it scared me to the point of paralysis.”

James Frey book A Million Little Pieces

Source: A Million Little Pieces

“In my mind my obituary is done. It is done and it is right. It tells the truth and as awful as it can be, the truth is what matters. It is what I should be remembered by, if I'm remembered at all. Remember the truth. that is all that matters”

James Frey book A Million Little Pieces

Source: A Million Little Pieces

“I hope nobody took the Razzle Dazzle Rose.”

James Frey book A Million Little Pieces

Source: A Million Little Pieces

“The feeling of arms around me, of love in my heart, it was more powerful than any of the negativity I knew was existing in the world for me. That feeling of love killed it all.”

James Frey book The Final Testament of the Holy Bible

Source: The Final Testament of the Holy Bible

“I am aware that the battle I am fighting is a petty one, but I am also aware that in order to win that which is great, you must first win that which is small.”

James Frey book A Million Little Pieces

Source: A Million Little Pieces

“They had dreams but they called them dreams because they were unrelated to reality, they were a distant unknown, an impossibility, they would never come true.”

James Frey Bright Shiny Morning

Source: Bright Shiny Morning

“I think men who can cry are strong men”

James Frey book A Million Little Pieces

Source: A Million Little Pieces

“I often think of death.
True.
Suicide is a reasonable option.
True.
My sins are unpardonable.
I stare at the question.
My sins are unpardonable.
I stare at the question.
My sins are unpardonable.
I leave it blank.”

James Frey book A Million Little Pieces

Source: A Million Little Pieces

“All of us started normal. All of us started out as functioning human beings with the potential to do almost anything we wanted, but somewhere along the paths of our lives, we got lost.”

James Frey book A Million Little Pieces

page 332
Source: A Million Little Pieces (2003)
Context: All of us started out normal. All of us started out as functioning human beings with the potential to do almost anything we wanted, but somewhere along the paths of our lives we got lost. Though we are here at this Clinic trying to find our way back, we all know that most of us will never get there. Things like the fight allow us to dream, and take us away from here, and allow us to imagine what the normal World must be like and how normal people must live in it.

“Its not just a smile of momentary happiness. When it disappears from my face, it will stay with me.”

James Frey book A Million Little Pieces

Source: A Million Little Pieces

“Enemies are a given. Friends are not.”

James Frey

The Calling

“No judgment, no condescension. Just hope.”

James Frey book A Million Little Pieces

A Million Little Pieces

“I look at Hank and he nods and I nod and for a brief second I feel strong. Not strong enough to face myself, but strong enough to keep going.”

James Frey book A Million Little Pieces

page 43
A Million Little Pieces (2003)

“I would like to be soft and warm. I would be terrified to be that way. I could be hurt if I were soft and warm. I could be hurt by something other than myself. It is harder to be soft than it is to be hard. I could be hurt by something other than myself.”

James Frey book A Million Little Pieces

page 239
A Million Little Pieces (2003)

“He starts to break and seeing him start to break makes me start to break and I don't want that. He steps forward and puts his arms around me and he hugs me and I hug him and it feels good and strong and pure and real. This is my Brother, my Blood, the only thing in this World created from which I am created from, the Person in this World who knows me best, the Person who would miss me most if I was gone. That he cared enough to come here and that he cares enough to nearly break in front of me means something, but in the end, I know that it means only so much.”

James Frey book A Million Little Pieces

page 133
A Million Little Pieces (2003)

“Take the risk and do whatever you can do and try not to get caught. If you do get caught, do it again.”

James Frey book A Million Little Pieces

page 284
A Million Little Pieces (2003)

“I think it's bullshit. People don't want to accept the responsibility for their own weakness so they place the blame on something that they're not responsible for, like a disease or genetics. As far as studies go, I could prove I was from Mars if you gave me enough time and enough resources.”

James Frey book A Million Little Pieces

page 302
A Million Little Pieces (2003)

“What I know is that I can trust his eyes because what lives in them, lives in me.”

James Frey book A Million Little Pieces

page 108
A Million Little Pieces (2003)

“I was weak and pathetic and I couldn't control myself. An explanation, especially a bullshit one, doesn't alter the circumstances. I need to change, I have to change, and at this point, change is my only option, unless I am ready to die. All that matters is that I make myself something else and someone else for the future.”

James Frey book A Million Little Pieces

A Million Little Pieces (2003)

“I don't blame you for this and I don't think there's anything you could have done to stop it. I am what I am, which is an Alcoholic and a Drug Addict and a Criminal, and I am whats I am because I made myself so. You did the best you could with me, and you loved me the best you could, and that's all I could have ever asked for from you. I have no excuses for what I've done or for who I am or for what I put you though all these years.”

James Frey book A Million Little Pieces

page 251
A Million Little Pieces (2003)

“All of us started out normal. All of us started out as functioning human beings with the potential to do almost anything we wanted, but somewhere along the paths of our lives we got lost. Though we are here at this Clinic trying to find our way back, we all know that most of us will never get there. Things like the fight allow us to dream, and take us away from here, and allow us to imagine what the normal World must be like and how normal people must live in it.”

James Frey book A Million Little Pieces

page 332
A Million Little Pieces (2003)

“In the face of surviving long enough to survive in the long term, there is no goal that comes to mind that means anything to me. I could write Survive, but I would rather hold that word in my heart than write it on some fucking board.”

James Frey book A Million Little Pieces

page 199
A Million Little Pieces (2003)

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