Julie Gregory Quotes

• But the memories that hang heaviest are the easiest to recall. They hold in their creases the ability to change one's life, organically, forever. Even when you shake them out, they've left permanent wrinkles in the fabric of your soul.

  Julie Gregory

  Memories, Wrinkles, Forever

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• I pride myself on how little space I take up. I am going to shrink and shrink until I am a dry fall leaf, complete with a translucent spine and brittle veins, blowing away in a stiff wind, up, up, up into a crisp blue sky.

  Julie Gregory

  Fall, Pride, Blue

  Julie Gregory (2003). “Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood”, Bantam

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• Having taken on the care of foster children, a mother forced her own daughter to beat them. According to her later account: Mom puts the fly swatter in my hand and shows me how to do it: grab their wrists, and whack the plastic handle over their pink baby palms. She stands in the doorway of their room until I can crack hard enough to make them scream.

  Julie Gregory

  Mamá, Hija, Madre

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• But the memories that hang heaviest are the easiest to recall.

  Julie Gregory

  Memories, Recalls

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• Books are my friends, where it's okay to be silent, where you're not a freak if you don't want to get drunk, peel out in the parking lot, tip cows.

  Julie Gregory

  Book, Drunk, Want

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• Empiezo a ver que me rodeo de gente rota; más rota que yo. Ah, sí, déjame contar tus grietas. A ver, cien, dos... sí, te irá bien. Un compañero agrietado me hace parecer más entero, me da algo fuera de mí que cuidar. Cuando estoy con gente entera, curada, siento mis propias grietas, los destrozos, las locuras de la dislocación en mí mismo.

  Julie Gregory

  Two, People, Broken

  Julie Gregory (2008). “Sickened”, p.274, Random House

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• When I look in the fridge, I see groceries, but I don't see food. My stomach growls; but there is no appetite. Appetite and hunger are different. Appetite is the mental prompting that kicks the auto-response into drive so you actually reach out, take the food, put it in your mouth, chew, and swallow. I learned this in my first psychology course. Eating isn't just a physical need; it starts in the mind, generating hunger, which then should trigger the body to ingest food. I have no sparks between these plugs.

  Julie Gregory

  Psychology, Mind, Body

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