Source: Along for the Ride
“Once you told yourself a story enough times, it was so easy to keep on believing it.”
“It's so easy to get caught up in what people expect of you. Sometimes, you can just lose yourself.”
Source: Dreamland (2000)
Variant: What was the point in crying when there was no one to comfort you? And what was worse, when you couldn't even comfort yourself?
Source: City of Glass
“You couldn’t keep your mouth shut? I’m calling you Glitterhair from now on. Or Talksalot.”
Source: The Exiled Queen
Variant: Because he knows you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy.
Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962), Ch. 25
Context: While McMurphy laughs. Rocking farther and farther backward against the cabin top, spreading his laugh out across the water — laughing at the girl, at the guys, at George, at me sucking my bleeding thumb, at the captain back at the pier... and the Big Nurse and all of it. Because he knows you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy. He knows there's a painful side; he knows my thumb smarts and his girlfriend has a bruised breast and the doctor is losing his glasses, but he won't let the pain blot out the humor no more'n he'll let the humor blot out the pain.
“What you keep to yourself you lose, what you give away, you keep forever.”
