April Genevieve Tucholke > Quotes

“Sunshine, if I ever disappear, please tell people that I ran after the Devil, trying to get my soul back.”
― April Genevieve Tucholke, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

“Lots of people have bad stories, and if they wail and sob and tell their story to anyone who’ll listen, it’s crap. Or half crap, at least.The stuff that really hurts people, the stuff that almost breaks them . . . that they won’t talk about. Ever.”
― April Genevieve Tucholke, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

“Hence? My habit of reading more than I socialized made me use odd, awkward words without thinking.”
― April Genevieve Tucholke, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

“You stop fearing the Devil when you're holding his hand...”
― April Genevieve Tucholke, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

“When you look into the darkness, the darkness looks into you.”
― April Genevieve Tucholke, Wink Poppy Midnight

“Freddie once told me that I was the worst kind of stubborn-because I wasn't stubborn at all. I was patient. Patient, but determined. A stubborn person could be distracted, or tricked. But not me. I just held on and on and on, never giving up until I got my way, long after everyone else stopped caring.”
― April Genevieve Tucholke, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

“Revenge. Justice. Love. They are the three stories that all other stories are made up of. It's the trifecta.”
― April Genevieve Tucholke, Wink Poppy Midnight

“People like you don’t go mad, Vi. They’re quiet on the outside and loud on the inside and sane as the day is long”
― April Genevieve Tucholke, Between the Spark and the Burn

“Freddie often fold me that you've got to be happy when you can, because life won't wait for you to take the time. And she was right.”
― April Genevieve Tucholke, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

“I wish people would spread a Faustian rumor about me.' I leaned over and knocked Sunshine's hand out of Luke's hair. 'A Faustian myth,' I repeated. 'It's so much more interesting than just being that nouveau-poor blond girl who lives in a big house with nobody but her jackass brother with pecs bigger than his brain. Sunshine, if I ever disappear, please tell people that I ran after the Devil, trying to get my soul back.”
― April Genevieve Tucholke, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

“Wink wasn't a villain.
She wasn't a hero.
People aren't just one thing. They never, ever are.
Wink was flesh and blood.
She was bad.
And she was good.
She was real.”
― April Genevieve Tucholke, Wink Poppy Midnight

“The crow cawed again overhead, and a strong sea wind came in and burst through the trees, making the green pine needles shake themselves all over the place. That sound always gave me goose bumps, the good kind. It was the sound an orphan governess hears in a book,before a mad woman sets the bed curtains on fire.”
― April Genevieve Tucholke, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

“It's easier to forgive someone for scaring you than for making you cry.”
― April Genevieve Tucholke, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

“Your life is not your own, Vi,' she said. 'Don't you know that? It belongs to the people who love you. So you need to take better care of it.”
― April Genevieve Tucholke, Between the Spark and the Burn

“All good Heroes are scared, if they know the evil they face.”
― April Genevieve Tucholke, Wink Poppy Midnight

“You just have to eat a strawberry and then wait for tomorrow.”
― April Genevieve Tucholke, Wink Poppy Midnight

“River had never lost his cool, not since I'd know him. That was the thing about River. He was calm. Calm as a summer's day. Calm as a gentle nap in the sun. Even when girls were fainting and men were slitting their throats in front of you.”
― April Genevieve Tucholke, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

“All the strangest things are true.”
― April Genevieve Tucholke, Wink Poppy Midnight

“Freddie used to say that Life could be safe, or it could be interesting, but it couldn't be both.”
― April Genevieve Tucholke, Between the Spark and the Burn

“It took strength to be quiet. It took strength to be kind. It took strength to let other people's cruelty bounce right off of you.”
― April Genevieve Tucholke, Slasher Girls & Monster Boys

“I used to think that I needed to be part of a story, a big story, one with trials and villains and temptations and rewards. That's how I would conquer it, conquer death."
She sighed again, and nestled in closer to me. "All that matters, in the end, is the little things. The way Mim says my name to wake me up in the morning. The way Bee's hand feels in mine. The way the sun cast my shadow across the yard yesterday. The way your cheeks flush when we kiss. The smell of hay and the taste of strawberries and the feel of fresh black dirt between my toes. This is what matters, Midnight.”
― April Genevieve Tucholke, Wink Poppy Midnight

“Wink kissed deep. Deep as a dark, misty, forest path. One that lead to blood and love and death and monsters.”
― April Genevieve Tucholke, Wink Poppy Midnight

“I walked into her arms and we hugged like hugging was breathing and we'd been holding our breath for a long, long time.”
― April Genevieve Tucholke, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

“No matter what I've Done. And I've done a lot. He's never been afraid of me. Never hated me. You've got to love a person for that. Unconditional Devotion is Blue-moon rare.”
― April Genevieve Tucholke Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

“If attics could make wishes, this one would have nothing to wish for.”
― April Genevieve Tucholke, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

“River's kiss tasted like coffee and storms and secrets.
And slowly, slowly he began to move faster, and then faster...
And then he stopped.
River let go of me, just like that. Just about the time I'd forgotten who I was, just about the time I'd forgotten we were even two separate people anymore and not just one glowing, quivering, ocean of kissing... he let me go. He stepped back and took a deep breath.”
― April Genevieve Tucholke, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

“I wanted to change my fate, to force it down another road. I wanted to stand in the river of time and make it flow a different direction, if just for a little while.”
― April Genevieve Tucholke, The Boneless Mercies

“I'd never get the sound of her screams out of my head, or my heart.
Is this what it meant to be the hero?”
― April Genevieve Tucholke, Wink Poppy Midnight

“We both fell asleep wrapped up together with the wolves still lullaby-ing us in the background”
― April Genevieve Tucholke, Between the Spark and the Burn

“Leaf once told me that there was absolutely no difference between the Orphans’ fairy tales and the nose on my face, because both were only as real as I thought they were.”
― April Genevieve Tucholke, Wink Poppy Midnight