Chelsea Pitcher > Quotes

“Tell me you're sorry.
Tell me you don't hate me enough to hurt me this way.”
― Chelsea Pitcher, The S-Word

“It scares me to see someone so together come unhinged. It makes me think none of us are in control.”
― Chelsea Pitcher, The S-Word

“I'll graduate high school with a major in Cynicism & a minor in Irritation.”
― Chelsea Pitcher, The S-Word

“And I just walked away. Again and again, I walked away as her world fell down around her. As they destroyed her. We destroyed her.”
― Chelsea Pitcher, The S-Word

“I thought I needed protection, back then. Now I think you're like the gun my mother bought after my father disappeared. A powerful symbol, but meaningless. What's the point of a gun if you don't shoot it?”
― Chelsea Pitcher, This Lie Will Kill You

“Let go of the doll. The goddess too. Then she was herself. A girl with pale blue eyes and freckles on the nose. A long jagged scar across her heart and a chasm that kept her from happiness.”
― Chelsea Pitcher, This Lie Will Kill You

“A drop of his blood was glistening on one of the shards, and she thought about using it to brighten up her lips.”
― Chelsea Pitcher, This Lie Will Kill You

“There’s nothing wrong with caring about something, regardless of what it means to other people.”
― Chelsea Pitcher, The Last Changeling

“You have to make sacrifices for the things you believe in. If you don’t, what’s the point in believing in anything?”
― Chelsea Pitcher, The Last Changeling

“When her phone lit up again, she was surprised to feel her heart leap. How could she still have hope after everything that had happened? Her heart was a bruised and bludgeoned thing. A Pandora’s box filled with grief and regret. But somewhere, hidden in the darkness, hope was glittering.”
― Chelsea Pitcher, This Lie Will Kill You

“But he wanted to know her so badly. And if "her" wasn't the right word to be using, he wanted to know that, too.”
― Chelsea Pitcher, Lies Like Poison

“Oh my God. Shut your beautiful face.”
― Chelsea Pitcher, This Lie Will Kill You

“But maybe, in times of immense distress, people's truest selves came out”
― Chelsea Pitcher, This Lie Will Kill You

“She was staring at him like he was the sun and she'd been living in darkness.”
― Chelsea Pitcher, This Lie Will Kill You

“I'm terrified. Every time I think about love, I think about losing.”
― Chelsea Pitcher, The S-Word

“What you see as imperfection draws me to you. People grow languorous from their joy. They derive strength from their pain.”
― Chelsea Pitcher, The Last Changeling

“You climb to the roof with a pitchfork in your hands. You summon the lightning. You chase the storm.” “See, that’s where you’re wrong, Juniper. I don’t chase the storm. I am the storm. I am a goddess in a land of pyramids and sand, and if I want, I can make all this blow away with the wind.”
― Chelsea Pitcher, This Lie Will Kill You

“She was not an angel. She hadn't come to save me. Maybe she'd come to destroy me. Still, I wanted her.”
― Chelsea Pitcher, The Last Changeling

“They'll try to hurt us if we're beautiful. They'll try to hurt us if we're ugly. But you know what, baby? They're the ones who are ugly. It doesn't have anything to do with us" -Belle”
― Chelsea Pitcher, Lies Like Poison

“Someday Ruby's soul would dance into the darkness, and they would reunite. There would be eyes like eternal twilight and moon-pale skin. A mischievous smile. And maybe, if everything went exactly as planned, her broken heart would heal and her pain would soften to sweetness.
But first, there would be life.”
― Chelsea Pitcher, This Lie Will Kill You

“She needed to be strong. No she needed to be cold, like an unfeeling doll. Porcelain limbs couldn't tremble, and a heart made of plastic couldn't ache this terribly. It couldn't break. It couldn't bleed.”
― Chelsea Pitcher, This Lie Will Kill You

“The thing about fear is it doesn’t go away once the most terrible thing has happened. it compounds, so you expect more terrible things to happen. you wait for them”
― Chelsea Pitcher, This Lie Will Kill You

“We don't turn to each other in," Jack whispered. "We fight for each other.”
― Chelsea Pitcher, Lies Like Poison

“What if something goes wrong?"

"Something will definitely go wrong. But wwe'll find our way back to each other, if that's what we want. Is that what you want?"

"Yes.”
― Chelsea Pitcher, Lies Like Poison

“Not on their own. But when cars made friends with mortals, they could do all these things and more. They could transform a beautiful forest into a wasteland. They could transform a beautiful face, with moon-pale skin and startling blue eyes, into a candle of wax, dripping and contorting until none of the loveliness remained.”
― Chelsea Pitcher, This Lie Will Kill You

“Sometimes it's easier to fight for other people than fight for ourselves”
― Chelsea Pitcher, Lies Like Poison

“Still, power flows in two directions. It can be used to destroy or bring people to life.”
― Chelsea Pitcher, Lies Like Poison

“Maybe they wouldn't live happily ever after, because life wasn't a fairy tale.

But they would live happily.”
― Chelsea Pitcher, Lies Like Poison

“people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters,”
― Chelsea Pitcher, This Lie Will Kill You

“A grain of sand in a land of pyramids and gods. All you have to do is wait for the wind, and he'll blow away.”
― Chelsea Pitcher, This Lie Will Kill You