Please someone tell me—
am I actually demented,
or just well-fermented?
—Terri Guillemets
Please someone tell me—
am I actually demented,
or just well-fermented?
—Terri Guillemets
Reality is irritatingly obstinate
and so very gosh darn’d sticky!
—Terri Guillemets
Even the sun can’t shine on an entire world at once.
—Terri Guillemets
Walking is good for solving problems — it’s like the feet are little psychiatrists.
—Terri Guillemets
If the world were all logic, poetry would starve to death.
—Terri Guillemets
Life is like running with scissors
naked through freezing blizzards
—Terri Guillemets
The secret to wellness is being your own guardian angel.
—Terri Guillemets
In a new love, it’s easy to live for the moment because there is no past. The more past you accumulate, the harder it is not to live there — and that’s true whether it’s good or bad.
—Terri Guillemets
i love to
smell the flowers
and sniff the books
sitting in gardens
and library nooks
—Terri Guillemets
A morning walk starts us off on the right foot for the day.
—Terri Guillemets
The scars you can’t see are the hardest to heal.
—Terri Guillemets
Chasing the past, I stumbled into the future.
—Terri Guillemets
P.S. Thanks so much to Rebecca for letting me know that this quote was used in the television show Being Erica. In the episode “Plenty of Fish,”
Keep a diary even if you rip it up every night.
—Terri Guillemets