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Isolated, she managed somehow to feel free—albeit with a freedom that made her want to smash a hole in the very center of the universe.

Flora Rheta Schreiber

It all made sense - terrible sense. The panic she had experienced in the warehouse district because of not knowing what had happened had been superseded at the newsstand by the even greater panic of partial knowledge. And now the torment of partly knowing had yielded to the infinitely greater terror of knowing precisely

Flora Rheta Schreiber

There is no past. Past is present when you carry it with you.

Flora Rheta Schreiber

I have to force myself even to move my eyeballs. It's so easy just to stare.

Flora Rheta Schreiber

I want somebody to love, and I want somebody to love me. And nobody ever will. And that's why it hurts. Because it makes a difference. And when nobody cares, it makes you all mad inside and it makes you want to say things, tear up things, break things, get through the glass.

Flora Rheta Schreiber

The anger. The terror. The feeling of entrapment. the profound distrust of people.The wistful, plaintive conviction that a window, a thing, was more important than she. These feelings and attitudes, expressed in the course of this hour, were symptoms of some profound disturbance.

Flora Rheta Schreiber

Flora Rheta Schreiber

Flora Rheta Schreiber

Born: April 24, 1918

Died: November 3, 1988 (aged 70)

Bio: Flora Rheta Schreiber, an American journalist, was the author of the 1973 bestseller Sybil, the story of a woman who had a dissociative identity disorder and allegedly had 16 different personalities.

Known for:

Sybil (1973)
The shoemaker (1983)
Your child's speech (1956)

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