# Quote — James Frey, A Million Little Pieces

> I was weak and pathetic and I couldn't control myself. An explanation, especially a bullshit one, doesn't alter the circumstances. I need to change, I have to change, and at this point, change is my only option, unless I am ready to die. All that matters is that I make myself something else and someone else for the future.

- 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)
- 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/i-was-weak

## 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)