S.R. Grey > S.R.'s Quotes

“Do you like me?”
No answer.
Silence bounced, fell off his tongue
and sat between us
and clogged my throat.
It slaughtered my trust.
It tore cigarettes out of my mouth.
We exchanged blind words,
and I did not cry,
I did not beg,
but blackness filled my ears,
blackness lunged in my heart,
and something that had been good,
a sort of kindly oxygen,
turned into a gas oven.”
― Anne Sexton

“Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay

“Their love as a dragonfly, skimming over echo park, stoppin to visit the lotus. Eating dreams and drinking blue sky.”
― Janet Fitch, Paint it Black

“I am stuffing your mouth with your
promises and watching
you vomit them out upon my face.”
― Anne Sexton, The Complete Poems

“You're leaving me, Rainbow Girl.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Dreamfever

“As for me, I am a watercolor.
I wash off.”
― Anne Sexton

“I felt like an undeveloped photograph that he was printing, my image rising to the surface under his gaze.”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

“I don't let anyone touch me," I finally said.
Why not?"
Why not? Because I was tired of men. Hanging in doorways, standing too close, their smell of beer or fifteen-year-old whiskey. Men who didn't come to the emergency room with you, men who left on Christmas Eve. Men who slammed the security gates, who made you love them then changed their minds. Forests of boys, their ragged shrubs full of eyes following you, grabbing your breasts, waving their money, eyes already knocking you down, taking what they felt was theirs. (...) It was a play and I knew how it ended, I didn't want to audition for any of the roles. It was no game, no casual thrill. It was three-bullet Russian roulette.”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

“When you started thinking it was easy, you were forgetting what it cost.”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

“He tells me to go away, but I don't think love is anything like water. It doesn't slip off that easily.”
― Joy Nicholson, The Tribes of Palos Verdes

“When I saw your strand of hair I knew that grief is love turned into an eternal missing.”
― Rosamund Lupton, Sister

“To know I was beautiful in his eyes made me beautiful. ”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

“Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.”
― Anne Sexton

“Being a writer means crying over the sad parts, even though you already know it’s going to be okay.”
― Clare B. Dunkle

“People disappear when they die. Their voice, their laughter, the warmth of their breath. Their flesh. Eventually their bones. All living memory of them ceases. This is both dreadful and natural. Yet for some there is an exception to this annihilation. For in the books they write they continue to exist. We can rediscover them. Their humor, their tone of voice, their moods. Through the written word they can anger you or make you happy. They can comfort you. They can perplex you. They can alter you. All this, even though they are dead. Like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in the ice, that which according to the laws of nature should pass away is, by the miracle of ink on paper, preserved. It is a kind of magic.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

“He offered me his free hand, clear blue eyes sparkling. "Come on...let's go find ourselves the perfect tree."
I took his hand and leaned into his shoulder. Didn't he know I'd go anywhere with him?”
― S.R. Grey, Willow Point

“Much like the Harbour Falls Mystery itself, the man at the center was a puzzle. And I longed to solve him piece by piece.”
― S.R. Grey, Harbour Falls

“I knew the things happening in my life would eventually define my future, and I guess I hoped no matter what occurred those things wouldn't ultimately define me.”
― S.R. Grey, I Stand Before You

“My tats were but temporal attempts to heal my soul, as my heart remained an open wound.”
― S.R. Grey, I Stand Before You

“Kay is a sandcastle on the beach, and I'm a fucking hurricane. I'd not only wash her away, I'd fucking destroy her.”
― S.R. Grey, I Stand Before You

“For Chase, I accept dares, I'm learning to take chances. He makes me feel unafraid.”
― S.R. Grey, I Stand Before You

“I decide this day with Chase Gartner--my friend, my maybe-possibility--is the best one yet.”
― S.R. Grey, I Stand Before You

“Hi,' Kay says all shy-like, as if she's suddenly not sure if she should be here. To me, she looks like she's belonged here all along.”
― S.R. Grey, I Stand Before You

“As we held tightly to one another, like two lost ships on a sea of confusion, I breathed in the guy I've grown to care for so very much.”
― S.R. Grey, I Stand Before You

“You're not broken.' I touch the angel between the wings on his back for emphasis. 'You're putting your life back together. Building isn't breaking, Chase.”
― S.R. Grey, I Stand Before You

“We both still, lips touching, breaths shared. This is what we are, two broken people who when connected are made whole, made right. I feel this everywhere, my body, my heart, my soul.”
― S.R. Grey, I Stand Before You

“Tell me, Chase. Tell me what I think I already know. Tell me what you’re feeling. I feel it too, I do.' My slaughtered heart stitches back together, more solid than ever. `I love you,' I whisper. `I love you so fucking much.”
― S.R. Grey, I Stand Before You

“Maybe we aren't so very different after all. There's good and bad in both of us, and that's what binds us together, for better or worse.”
― S.R. Grey, I Stand Before You

“This is what Kay needs right now, soft touching and caring. When we're together, I want to love her just like this.”
― S.R. Grey, I Stand Before You

“It’s at that exact second I realize—in a rush, like a wave crashing all around me—I have fallen in love. I am head over heels in love with Chase Gartner.”
― S.R. Grey, I Stand Before You