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Pain was penance,
“Don’t call me Peanut!”
How would you feel if someone tossed you aside because of a few torn pages or a broken spine?”
books weren’t just about the words on the page but the people who had turned the pages.
“Whatever. It’s all dirty laundry on my bedroom floor.”
“Call them by their medical term—shirt potatoes.”
Truth is only fair when it’s even.
felt unfair that no matter how big the life, we all reduce to the same small pile of ash.
because while every living, breathing human carried the weight of grief and guilt in some form, only a few created a permanent harbor for
it.
“I’m sorry” was never on time. It was always too late.
“Happily ever after never happens when people do what they’re supposed to do, love. It’s when they deviate that the plot really gets interesting.”
Avoidance builds tension, but at some point, to satisfy the reader, a character must make a choice and deal with the consequences.”
This is the very ecstasy of love, whose violent property foredoes itself and leads the will to desperate undertakings.’”
“There’s as much value in the word ‘no’ as there is in the word ‘yes.’ Maybe even more, because we, as women, so rarely say no.”
“Because artists survive on the love of other artists.”
Denial is easier than self-evaluation and vulnerability.
