I'm starting to understand that attempting to be perfect has been the goal of my life. Our lives. Attempting to be this fault-free, smiling person in this loving, happy family that fits so perfectly in this pretty, inoffensive little town. What was so bad about that goal after all? Only that I couldn't do it. That I let everybody down. I've been so down about it, so depressed thinking about all the balls I was trying to juggle that I've dropped, and now the cogs are turning toward total apathy toward it all, everything and all I can think about is that I am a shell of a human being. I'm a pushover. I'm to blame.


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During the first year of college, students have many new experiences. They are faced with new cognit...
ABIGAIL BAIRD
I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life ... Man was made for action ...
ABIGAIL ADAMS
I had no intention of becoming a performer, and yet under miraculous circumstances I was brought int...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN
When I first started playing the banjo and miraculously fell into a record deal in Nashville, TN, th...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN
Yes, I know that now that there is truth in beauty and beauty in truth. My nature is to be depressiv...
ABIGAIL GEORGE
What do you want, MacGuffin, a duel?”
“No.” Julian held out both hands, one palm flat, th...
ABIGAIL ROUX
These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the re...
ABIGAIL ADAMS
Adventure, risk, and triumph is best learned from a piece of cream-filled, fried dough 1,200 miles f...
ABIGAIL NELSON
I would like to point out that while I have considerately remained composed during our discourse, I ...
ABIGAIL REYNOLDS
War and peace. There are blurred lines in the realities of both. A separation anxiety as the paradig...
ABIGAIL GEORGE
You know I'd follow you anywhere. Even if it's straight to Hell.
ABIGAIL ROUX
What about the animals?” Ty asked. “Who the hell needs this many dogs anyway?”
“What’...
ABIGAIL ROUX
The way black women say "girl" can be magical. Frankly, I have no solid beliefs about the survival o...
ABIGAIL PADGETT
Like water our ideals for writing what seems at first to be a calling to pen a masterpiece, it at fi...
ABIGAIL GEORGE
Wait!" she cried, and she yanked away from him and gathered her heels and her ruined
purse. She...
ABIGAIL ROUX
My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
ABIGAIL ADAMS
A couple of years ago my sister Judy and I were each given a box of truffles. The tiny print said tw...
ABIGAIL THOMAS
There are those people who can eat one piece of chocolate, one piece of cake, drink one glass of win...
ABIGAIL THOMAS
This Saturday? As in tomorrow Saturday? We have to give lectures in twelve hours? We're not prepared...
ABIGAIL ROUX
We have too many high sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them.
ABIGAIL ADAMS
Napping is divine, but I no longer have all the time in the world.
ABIGAIL THOMAS
Either conquer the night, or become one of its conquests.
ABIGAIL BIDDINGER
I'm Catholic. I don't pray, I just ask for forgiveness after.
ABIGAIL ROUX
Someone would have to be out of their mind not to come back to you. I walked through a blizzard to g...
ABIGAIL ROUX
My father loved biographies. He loved the true tales of interesting people that were shaping our cul...
ABIGAIL SPENCER
Good kitty"
"Why do you encourage them?"
"They're good kitties."
"They're your minion...
ABIGAIL ROUX
The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
ABIGAIL ADAMS
This is the same establishment that all those who want, or rather aspire to, to be literary figures ...
ABIGAIL GEORGE
Kidnapped by a vampire, death by a squid. How tragic.
ABIGAIL GIBBS
Woman lost (skin deep) like a damn fine thread in the fire
Woman of the world caught up in your...
ABIGAIL GEORGE
Woman lost (skin deep) like a damn fine thread in the fire
Woman of the world caught up in your...
ABIGAIL GEORGE
I don't want your duty kisses. They taste bitter
ABIGAIL REYNOLDS
My phone is always in front of me, 24/7.
ABIGAIL BRESLIN
A lot of the time I'm working with people who are older than me.
ABIGAIL BRESLIN
Forget career, forget the future, forget existential worries, just get yourselves a couple of dogs, ...
ABIGAIL THOMAS
I'm no ethnomusicologist. There is a connection between the five-note scale used both in traditi...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN
China was the first time I truly felt like an outsider. I fell in love with the process of trying to...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN
I've moved around so much my whole life, and I've gotten so used to being the Other in situa...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN
One of my favorite albums in the world is Bruce Springsteen's 'Nebraska.' Each song has ...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN
For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty, and it's not what it is for me.
ABIGAIL WASHBURN
I played piano and was always in the choir. I tried to play flute because all the pretty girls playe...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN
Passion can’t be planned; only felt.
ABIGAIL BIDDINGER
True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN
Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married.
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN
If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires. -Abigail Van Bure...
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN
The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he...
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN