# Quote — James Frey, A Million Little Pieces

> If you think you're making that choice, you're wrong. Your choices are made by the shit that controls you and the shit you can't quit. You walk out of here and that is going to kill you and that's fucking wrong.
>
> Maybe, maybe not.
>
> Maybe not my ass. How about walking back in and being a fucking man? How about walking back in and putting up a fucking fight? How about walking back in and doing what's decent and right and honorable and showing a little pride, just a little bit of fucking pride?

- 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/if-you-think

## 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)