Rasmenia Massoud Books & Quotes

“There’s nothing the dead can tell you that the living can’t,” he’d said to me. “World is indifferent to your feelings. World has no responsibility and no reasons why a serial killer can randomly create orphans and then disappear, and no antipathy for assholes who get drunk and kill, then go free a couple of years later. You gotta look for joy, not reasons and explanations.”

Death Life Lessons Grief Moving On Indifference Life Goes On Trauma Healing Trauma Survivors

Book:Tied Within

Source: Tied Within

“That’s the problem with things dying. They’re stuck being dead forever while everything else evolves and makes new stories.”

Stories Death Change Loss Dying Evolving Cycle Of Life

Book:You Don't See Any of This

Source: You Don't See Any of This

“August is that last flicker of fun and heat before everything fades and dies. The final moments of fun before the freeze. In the winter, everything changes.”

Change Loss Sadness Summer August Time Passing

Book:You Don't See Any of This

Source: You Don't See Any of This

“A city isn’t so unlike a person. They both have the marks to show they have many stories to tell. They see many faces. They tear things down and make new again.”

People Stories Cities Scars Surviving Tragedy

Book:Broken Abroad

Source: Broken Abroad

“Lucius didn’t believe in werewolves. He said that people were too horrible for any other monsters to exist, which he thought was a shame.”

People Humanity Monsters

Book:Human Detritus

Source: Human Detritus

“When I walked into the room, I looked down to the floor and saw that each and every garment I owned had been pulled from its rightful place and had been meticulously sliced into countless pieces. One thing was painfully obvious to me: these clothes were symbolic of me; they represented my body. What you really wanted was to slice me into countless pieces.”

Fear Violence Attack Knife

Book:Human Detritus

Source: Human Detritus

“Most of the time, when a bum on the street asks you for money, it’s not too hard to just walk away, but these fun guys, with their jokes, banjos and cute animals, they make it impossible to dismiss them. It makes me wonder what they know that I don’t.”

Human Human Condition Homeless Busker

Book:Tied Within

Source: Tied Within

“Home never has enough distractions, only walls and mirrors.”

Home Mirrors Escape Walls Distractions Avoiding Pain Facing Reality Running Away From Problems

Book:Tied Within

Source: Tied Within

“We just didn’t want to go home, where we would be surrounded by what we truly are and all that we pretended to be, facing what we might never reach.”

Home Avoiding Pain Facing Reality Facing Life Hiding From The Past

Book:Tied Within

Source: Tied Within

“We laughed the way that only people who carry each other back from Hell can laugh when they finally get a hunger for the future once again.”

Hell Future Survival Endurance Laugh

Book:Broken Abroad

Source: Broken Abroad

“I don’t know how to be any version of me, much less a new and improved me.”

Self Growth Change Growing Up Self Esteem Self Improvement Sense Of Self Growing Pains

Book:Tied Within

Source: Tied Within

“We knew it was only a moment. Our days of cool were numbered. Even when we were in it, right now was already gone. We didn’t know what it would be. Maybe a man. A baby. A death. What we knew was that soon, we’d pass thirty and get wrapped up in dull, adult things with no time or energy leftover to work at being cool. Just like that. Whoosh. Zoom. It’s over, and we’re here. From past to present.”

Life Change Growing Up Youth Aging Nostalgia Maturity Growing Old Time Passing Growing Older

Book:You Don't See Any of This

Source: You Don't See Any of This

“Then I recognize the feeling I have way down underneath my scoffing and head shaking. Not doubt. Not skepticism. Only cold jealousy. Nothing is my bag. Nothing ever called out to me. If it did, I’m deaf to it, or don’t know how to listen. That’s the kind of realization that makes me too sad to speak.”

Lost Sad Self Realization Jealousy Isolation Purposeless

Book:Tied Within

Source: Tied Within

“Her metamorphosis, once complete, would let her belong. Her superficial cocoon. An escape route from awkward. A life boat to acceptance.”

Change Acceptance Appearance Awkward Superficial Metamorphosis Makeover

Book:Tied Within

Source: Tied Within

“There are no mirrors of any kind in here. If there were, I’d want to smash them, but I wouldn’t. Instead, I’d probably just stare at them, giving myself negative affirmations.”

Humor Self Esteem Mirrors Affirmations

Book:Human Detritus

Source: Human Detritus

“It’s too hard to forget the weight of shame that a pair of eyes can put down on you.”

Regret Shame Eyes Regretting

Book:Tied Within

Source: Tied Within

“Maybe I should find another doctor; one who realizes the importance of scars.”

Healing Scars Doctor

Book:Human Detritus

Source: Human Detritus

“Not every daughter mourns the loss of a mother.”

Mothers Daughters

Book:Broken Abroad

Source: Broken Abroad

“Who’s happy? Happy is just what people think they are when they can’t find anything to bitch about.”

People Happiness Happy Think Bitch

Book:Human Detritus

Source: Human Detritus

“I know that mirrors give us a false sense of confidence.” I continued. “The reflection that we see everyday has nothing to do with how others see us. The glass lies.”

Confidence Perception Self Image Mirror

Book:Human Detritus

Source: Human Detritus

“Every morning, my hangover feels like being born again. My head throbs, like being squeezed and pushed out, fists trembling, throat grunting and wailing in protest of the light, screaming for the comfort of warm, dark silence.”

Struggle Depression Alcohol Alcoholism Coping Hangover Alcoholic Internal Conflict Alcohol Abuse Downward Spiral

Book:You Don't See Any of This

Source: You Don't See Any of This

“How nice that must be, to blend in with unexceptional people in that banal, work-a-day banter. Like regular people.”

Normal Workplace Normal Life Normality Normal People Regular Banal

Book:Tied Within

Source: Tied Within

“Then a thought occurs to me that nice can turn to annoying or dull if a person isn’t careful, or stops paying attention.”

Nice Boring Dull Annoying Mundane Banal

Book:Tied Within

Source: Tied Within

“It’s strange how easy it was, once we tried, to just spend time being broken together.”

Healing Broken Trauma Togetherness Traumatic Experiences Traumatized Trauma Survivors Healing Trauma Together Forever Broken People

Book:Tied Within

Source: Tied Within

“He mentioned the connection between us. He identified with me. These are the things that many people want to hear, that most “normal” people want to be able to truthfully say, but almost no one can.”

People Relationships Communication Normal Connection

Book:Human Detritus

Source: Human Detritus

“Junie says that the worst thing about shame is the way it chains you down. The way it holds your mind hostage and won’t let you go, gnawing from the inside out, feeding on you like a parasite.”

Pain Shame Trauma Coping Painful Memories Parasite Inner Turmoil

Book:You Don't See Any of This

Source: You Don't See Any of This

“When I start something, I can never finish it. I just can’t dedicate myself to wanting or doing a thing for an extended period of time like that. I get started doing and before I reach the halfway mark, I’m wanting something else. But, really, it’s not me, it’s everything moving around me, changing and wreaking havoc on my wants. I decided it's easier to stop starting things because it’s impossible to keep up with the world, the way it constantly throws new stuff at you.”

Change Confusion Finding Yourself Starting Something New Constant Change Moving Fast

Book:Tied Within

Source: Tied Within

“Whatever it is that you know, or that you don’t know, tell me about it. We can exchange tirades. The comma is my favorite piece of punctuation and I’ve got all night.”

Talking Punctuation Comma Tirade

Book:Human Detritus

Source: Human Detritus

“Hate isn’t the opposite of love, apathy is. Hating doesn’t free you from feeling anything. You have to carry it around, using every scar, every little memory like a building block. Like a stone in a wall, until you’ve created a new person, a new life that you can live with.”

Love Life Hate Feeling Apathy Scars Walls Reinventing Yourself

Book:Broken Abroad

Source: Broken Abroad

“It’s hard to explain to people who already know who they are and what they like that you have no fucking idea what you want to do with your time because you don’t know how to like or dislike a thing, or how to do anything.”

Self Lost Indifference Confused Apathy Self Knowledge

Book:Tied Within

Source: Tied Within

Rasmenia Massoud Books

Tied Within

Human Detritus

You Don't See Any of This

Broken Abroad

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