Frances Farmer

I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness. ↗

— Frances Farmer

#became #god #him #i #less

I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment. ↗

— Frances Farmer

#friend #gifts #god #good #good friend

I went to Sunday School and liked the stories about Christ and the Christmas star. They were beautiful. They made you warm and happy to think about. But I didn't believe them. ↗

— Frances Farmer

#beautiful #believe #christ #christmas #happy

If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one. ↗

— Frances Farmer

#apt #like #patient #person #treated

That satisfied me until I began to figure that if God loved all his children equally, why did he bother about my red hat and let other people lose their fathers and mothers for always? ↗

— Frances Farmer

#always #began #bother #children #did

The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it. ↗

— Frances Farmer

#bad girl #began #calling #girl #got

There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream. ↗

— Frances Farmer

#comes #dream #point #reality

But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feeling wasn't God. ↗

— Frances Farmer

#children #cleanliness #father #feeling #god

I didn't think then, and I still don't, that I was actually sick. ↗

— Frances Farmer

#i #sick #still #then #think

I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget. ↗

— Frances Farmer

#forget #god #heaven #i #just