I'm pretty good at compartmentalizing things and not allowing things outside of myself to distract me or bother me or affect me in any way.
James FreyI'm trying to influence the next generation or two generations or three generations behind me. That's a big ambition of mine.
James FreyThere are never words for the strongest of our feelings. There is just the pain that we cannot share. Pain we must all feel alone.
James FreyThere are no words and there is no singing, but the music has a voice. It is an old voice and a deep voice, like the stump of a sweet cigar or a shoe with a hole. It is a voice that has lived and lives, with sorrow and shame, ecstasy and bliss, joy and pain, redemption and damnation. It is a voice with love and without love. I like the voice, and though I can't talk to it, I like the way it talks to me. It says it is all the same, Young Man. Take it and let it be.
James FreyShe is sitting on frozen ground wrapped in a blanket, her pale skin shining. She smiles and she stands and without words, she steps forward, opens the blanket, envelops me within it and within her and within myself. She kisses my cheek, the one not torn, she wraps me and she holds me. Her arms are thin but strong. She whispers in my ear, "I'm glad you're here.
James Frey