“Just because a feeling is real doesn’t mean it’s true.”
―
Andrea Bartz,
We Were Never Here
“Power is a funny thing. You know how they say that the opposite of love isn’t hate, it’s indifference? Like, we’re looking at the scale all wrong.” She tapped her nail against the glass. “I think it’s the same thing with fear. The opposite of fear isn’t safety. It’s power.” ― Andrea Bartz, We Were Never Here
“All the hand-wringing about women tempting fate by going on adventures, how it was our responsibility to protect ourselves…wasn’t it simply a way to keep women’s lives small? To keep us cowering at home, controlled, contained?” ― Andrea Bartz, We Were Never Here
“I'd been so focused on running away, I'd almost missed what I was running to.” ― Andrea Bartz, We Were Never Here
“I thought back to a soliloquy I’d seen on TV about pain as women’s birthright. It’s not hard to catalog the dazzling torment life puts us through: childbirth and menstrual cramps and the suffocating heat of menopause. We do our best to avoid it, but men run toward it: war and wrestling and football that cracks their skulls, bruises the fragile gray matter underneath. Their bravado is just them manufacturing their own pain, trying to seem strong. But fear—fear is at least as strong a motivator as pain. Maybe the TV show had it wrong; maybe men aren’t out to experience pain so much as fear, the icy jolt of feeling alive. They crave it because they have no idea how miserable it is to feel that frigid blast a hundred times a day. I” ― Andrea Bartz, We Were Never Here
“I thought back to a soliloquy I’d seen on TV about pain as women’s birthright. It’s not hard to catalog the dazzling torment life puts us through: childbirth and menstrual cramps and the suffocating heat of menopause. We do our best to avoid it, but men run toward it: war and wrestling and football that cracks their skulls, bruises the fragile gray matter underneath. Their bravado is just them manufacturing their own pain, trying to seem strong. But fear—fear is at least as strong a motivator as pain. Maybe the TV show had it wrong; maybe men aren’t out to experience pain so much as fear, the icy jolt of feeling alive. They crave it because they have no idea how miserable it is to feel that frigid blast a hundred times a day.” ― Andrea Bartz, We Were Never Here
“Cognitive behavioral therapy is kind of the same thing: You examine your thoughts like a scientist so you can challenge the ones that don’t hold up. So let’s look at this fear, this belief or, or thought pattern you’ve noticed. Just because a feeling is real doesn’t mean it’s true.” ― Andrea Bartz, We Were Never Here
“Who knows what else is unwittingly documented in people’s phones and hard drives and dusty photo albums, background noise that would swell with meaning to a different audience?” ― Andrea Bartz, We Were Never Here
“Breathed louder, harder, both of our breaths rhythmic and sultry, until all that existed was the feeling, deep and tender and raw.” ― Andrea Bartz, We Were Never Here
“Why does thank you so often throw on a suit and stand in for fuck you?” ― Andrea Bartz, The Herd
“I’ve just been thinking back to those days. Remembering. Well, remembering what it’s like to wake up and not remember anything, which is sort of a Möbius strip of remembering.” ― Andrea Bartz, The Lost Night
“Edit the feed to limit the hysteria.” ― Andrea Bartz, We Were Never Here
“What is it? He stared at me, his eyes so full of concern that I thought I might disintegrate like a shooting star, which, after all, is just a lowly meteor that lost its way, burning up as it plunges into the atmosphere.” ― Andrea Bartz, We Were Never Here
“Frida Kahlo: “I often have more sympathy for carpenters, cobblers, etc., than for that whole stupid, supposedly civilized herd of windbags known as cultivated people.” ― Andrea Bartz, The Herd
“For starters, she refuses to even acknowledge the wealthy developer teaming up with the LAPD to find us. Her behavior when we’d found the CNN article had been so bizarre that a part of me kept whispering, Was that insincere?” ― Andrea Bartz, We Were Never Here
“Some people would say that hijacking your birthday plans is not respecting your boundaries.” ― Andrea Bartz, We Were Never Here
“See, here's what's cool. He yanked the key from the ignition. You want space, you want to get away-I get that, I've done that, I've dated people who've been like that. But usually that means they run away from me.” ― Andrea Bartz, We Were Never Here
“The face of a fighter, a boxer. A Spanish-American man beaten to death by a beautiful American visitor.” ― Andrea Bartz, We Were Never Here
“When you’re dependable, everyone depends on you.” ― Andrea Bartz, The Herd
“Power is a funny thing. You know how they say that the opposite of love isn’t hate, it’s indifference? Like, we’re looking at the scale all wrong.” She tapped her nail against the glass. “I think it’s the same thing with fear. The opposite of fear isn’t safety. It’s power.” ― Andrea Bartz, We Were Never Here
“All the hand-wringing about women tempting fate by going on adventures, how it was our responsibility to protect ourselves…wasn’t it simply a way to keep women’s lives small? To keep us cowering at home, controlled, contained?” ― Andrea Bartz, We Were Never Here
“I'd been so focused on running away, I'd almost missed what I was running to.” ― Andrea Bartz, We Were Never Here
“I thought back to a soliloquy I’d seen on TV about pain as women’s birthright. It’s not hard to catalog the dazzling torment life puts us through: childbirth and menstrual cramps and the suffocating heat of menopause. We do our best to avoid it, but men run toward it: war and wrestling and football that cracks their skulls, bruises the fragile gray matter underneath. Their bravado is just them manufacturing their own pain, trying to seem strong. But fear—fear is at least as strong a motivator as pain. Maybe the TV show had it wrong; maybe men aren’t out to experience pain so much as fear, the icy jolt of feeling alive. They crave it because they have no idea how miserable it is to feel that frigid blast a hundred times a day. I” ― Andrea Bartz, We Were Never Here
“I thought back to a soliloquy I’d seen on TV about pain as women’s birthright. It’s not hard to catalog the dazzling torment life puts us through: childbirth and menstrual cramps and the suffocating heat of menopause. We do our best to avoid it, but men run toward it: war and wrestling and football that cracks their skulls, bruises the fragile gray matter underneath. Their bravado is just them manufacturing their own pain, trying to seem strong. But fear—fear is at least as strong a motivator as pain. Maybe the TV show had it wrong; maybe men aren’t out to experience pain so much as fear, the icy jolt of feeling alive. They crave it because they have no idea how miserable it is to feel that frigid blast a hundred times a day.” ― Andrea Bartz, We Were Never Here
“Cognitive behavioral therapy is kind of the same thing: You examine your thoughts like a scientist so you can challenge the ones that don’t hold up. So let’s look at this fear, this belief or, or thought pattern you’ve noticed. Just because a feeling is real doesn’t mean it’s true.” ― Andrea Bartz, We Were Never Here
“Who knows what else is unwittingly documented in people’s phones and hard drives and dusty photo albums, background noise that would swell with meaning to a different audience?” ― Andrea Bartz, We Were Never Here
“Breathed louder, harder, both of our breaths rhythmic and sultry, until all that existed was the feeling, deep and tender and raw.” ― Andrea Bartz, We Were Never Here
“Why does thank you so often throw on a suit and stand in for fuck you?” ― Andrea Bartz, The Herd
“I’ve just been thinking back to those days. Remembering. Well, remembering what it’s like to wake up and not remember anything, which is sort of a Möbius strip of remembering.” ― Andrea Bartz, The Lost Night
“Edit the feed to limit the hysteria.” ― Andrea Bartz, We Were Never Here
“What is it? He stared at me, his eyes so full of concern that I thought I might disintegrate like a shooting star, which, after all, is just a lowly meteor that lost its way, burning up as it plunges into the atmosphere.” ― Andrea Bartz, We Were Never Here
“Frida Kahlo: “I often have more sympathy for carpenters, cobblers, etc., than for that whole stupid, supposedly civilized herd of windbags known as cultivated people.” ― Andrea Bartz, The Herd
“For starters, she refuses to even acknowledge the wealthy developer teaming up with the LAPD to find us. Her behavior when we’d found the CNN article had been so bizarre that a part of me kept whispering, Was that insincere?” ― Andrea Bartz, We Were Never Here
“Some people would say that hijacking your birthday plans is not respecting your boundaries.” ― Andrea Bartz, We Were Never Here
“See, here's what's cool. He yanked the key from the ignition. You want space, you want to get away-I get that, I've done that, I've dated people who've been like that. But usually that means they run away from me.” ― Andrea Bartz, We Were Never Here
“The face of a fighter, a boxer. A Spanish-American man beaten to death by a beautiful American visitor.” ― Andrea Bartz, We Were Never Here
“When you’re dependable, everyone depends on you.” ― Andrea Bartz, The Herd
