“Too many of us are hung up on what we don't have, can't have, or won't ever have. We spend too much energy being down, when we could use that same energy – if not less of it – doing, or at least trying to do, some of the things we really want to do.”
―
Terry McMillan ,
Disappearing Acts
“Folks want to glow, to leave their worries and dead skin behind.” ― Terry McMillan, Getting to Happy
“I want to push the fast-forward button until I get back to happy.” ― Terry McMillan, Getting to Happy
“Men cheat. They lie. They love porn. The don't respect you and don't care if they hurt you. It's the fucking breaks. Women divorce 'em 'cause we can't tame 'em or train 'em or control 'em like we do household pets. End of story.” ― Terry McMillan, Getting to Happy
“don't sabotage your own greatness by succumbing to failure!” ― Terry McMillan, A Day Late and a Dollar Short
“I was tired of chasing ghosts, hollow men who were outside my comfort zone, men who had nothing to give me except a rush. It was all I asked for, and all I ever got.” ― Terry McMillan, Getting to Happy
“happiness aint got no Ph.D. or no certain amount of zeroes behind it!” ― Terry McMillan, A Day Late and a Dollar Short
“What I do know is sometimes we love the wrong people and sometimes we marry them.” ― Terry McMillan, Getting to Happy
“life is like a jigsaw puzzle, you have to see the whole picture, then put it together piece by piece!” ― Terry McMillan, A Day Late and a Dollar Short
“Look, as my mama always said, 'One monkey don't stop no show.” ― Terry McMillan, Getting to Happy
“It goes without saying that your friends are usually the first to discuss your personal business behind your back.” ― Terry McMillan, Mama
“You've been killing me inside and I don't want to die like this.” ― Terry McMillan, Getting to Happy
“Back then I confused passions and orgasms with love. It look me years to realize the two weren't synonymous.” ― Terry McMillan, Getting to Happy
“I like to think of what happens to characters in good novels and stories as knots--things keep knotting up. And by the end of the story--readers see an unknotting of sorts. Not what you expect, not the easy answers you get on TV, not wash and wear philosophies, but a reproduction of believable, emotional experiences.” ― Terry McMillan
“I'm not trying to be a middle aged centerfold, I just want to look at myself naked and not be disgusted.” ― Terry McMillan, Getting to Happy
“We never thought some guy would deliberately fill our hearts with brown sugar and then pour hot water all over it.” ― Terry McMillan, Getting to Happy
“I been saying it for years: church is full of sneaky men posing as honest souls, and they are perpetuators our here looking for women just like you, with giant holes in your hearts, and they can smell when you got a good job and when you lonely as hell.” ― Terry McMillan, Getting to Happy
“At least be a nice lesbian or you're going to give the rest a bad rap.” ― Terry McMillan, Getting to Happy
“I don't care if he never becomes my boyfriend or my husband, i just want him to be legitimate.” ― Terry McMillan, Getting to Happy
“Folks want to glow, to leave their worries and dead skin behind.” ― Terry McMillan, Getting to Happy
“I want to push the fast-forward button until I get back to happy.” ― Terry McMillan, Getting to Happy
“Men cheat. They lie. They love porn. The don't respect you and don't care if they hurt you. It's the fucking breaks. Women divorce 'em 'cause we can't tame 'em or train 'em or control 'em like we do household pets. End of story.” ― Terry McMillan, Getting to Happy
“don't sabotage your own greatness by succumbing to failure!” ― Terry McMillan, A Day Late and a Dollar Short
“I was tired of chasing ghosts, hollow men who were outside my comfort zone, men who had nothing to give me except a rush. It was all I asked for, and all I ever got.” ― Terry McMillan, Getting to Happy
“happiness aint got no Ph.D. or no certain amount of zeroes behind it!” ― Terry McMillan, A Day Late and a Dollar Short
“What I do know is sometimes we love the wrong people and sometimes we marry them.” ― Terry McMillan, Getting to Happy
“life is like a jigsaw puzzle, you have to see the whole picture, then put it together piece by piece!” ― Terry McMillan, A Day Late and a Dollar Short
“Look, as my mama always said, 'One monkey don't stop no show.” ― Terry McMillan, Getting to Happy
“It goes without saying that your friends are usually the first to discuss your personal business behind your back.” ― Terry McMillan, Mama
“You've been killing me inside and I don't want to die like this.” ― Terry McMillan, Getting to Happy
“Back then I confused passions and orgasms with love. It look me years to realize the two weren't synonymous.” ― Terry McMillan, Getting to Happy
“I like to think of what happens to characters in good novels and stories as knots--things keep knotting up. And by the end of the story--readers see an unknotting of sorts. Not what you expect, not the easy answers you get on TV, not wash and wear philosophies, but a reproduction of believable, emotional experiences.” ― Terry McMillan
“I'm not trying to be a middle aged centerfold, I just want to look at myself naked and not be disgusted.” ― Terry McMillan, Getting to Happy
“We never thought some guy would deliberately fill our hearts with brown sugar and then pour hot water all over it.” ― Terry McMillan, Getting to Happy
“I been saying it for years: church is full of sneaky men posing as honest souls, and they are perpetuators our here looking for women just like you, with giant holes in your hearts, and they can smell when you got a good job and when you lonely as hell.” ― Terry McMillan, Getting to Happy
“At least be a nice lesbian or you're going to give the rest a bad rap.” ― Terry McMillan, Getting to Happy
“I don't care if he never becomes my boyfriend or my husband, i just want him to be legitimate.” ― Terry McMillan, Getting to Happy
