# Quote — James Frey, A Million Little Pieces

> All of us started out normal. All of us started out as functioning human beings with the potential to do almost anything we wanted, but somewhere along the paths of our lives we got lost. Though we are here at this Clinic trying to find our way back, we all know that most of us will never get there. Things like the fight allow us to dream, and take us away from here, and allow us to imagine what the normal World must be like and how normal people must live in it.

- Author: [James Frey](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-frey.md)
- Book: [A Million Little Pieces](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-frey/a-million-little-pieces.md)
- Page: 332
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Frey#A_Million_Little_Pieces_(2003)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-frey/a-million-little-pieces/all-of-us-started

## More from this book

> I think it's bullshit. People don't want to accept the responsibility for their own weakness so they place the blame on something that they're not responsible for, like a disease or genetics. As far as studies go, I could prove I was from Mars if you gave me enough time and enough resources.

p. 302 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-frey/a-million-little-pieces/i-think-its.md)

> I don't know if I lost the courage to kill myself, or gained the strength not to, but I didn't do it. I kept living and drinking and doing drugs and fucking up. Eventually I ended up here.

p. 406 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-frey/a-million-little-pieces/i-dont-know.md)

> Sometimes skulls are thick. Sometimes hearts are vacant. Sometimes words don't work.

p. 323 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-frey/a-million-little-pieces/sometimes-skulls-are.md)