Messed Up People Quotes

“It is easier to tell a person what life is not, rather than to tell them what it is. A child understands weeds that grow from lack of attention, in a garden. However, it is hard to explain the wild flowers that one gardener calls weeds, and another considers beautiful ground cover.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“…the most devastating thing Finney could have said. Not that Peter was hated by his father. But that he’d been loved all along. He’d interpreted kindness as cruelty, generosity as meanness, support as tethers. How horrible to have been offered love, and to have chosen hate instead. He’d turned heaven into hell.”
― Louise Penny, A Rule Against Murder

“You're not too messed up at all, you're just as messed up as you should be.”
― Annie Hartnett, Unlikely Animals

“Desi has loved me ever since the lie, I know he pictures making love to me, how gentle and reassuring he would be as he plunged into me, stroking my hair. I know he pictures me crying softly as I give myself to him.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“We are all messed up creatures trying to find our way through life.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Gentalist: There's No Social Work, Only Family Work

“There are some really messed up people out there on the dating scene.”
― Steven Magee

“There are some really messed up people out there that are working as police officers!”
― Steven Magee