Vera > Vera's Quotes

“Evil does not alter easily.....”
― Olivia Hardy Ray, Annabel Horton, Lost Witch of Salem

“Little bastard would never get as tall as the tales he told.”
― Vera Jane Cook, Pleasant Day

“He stood there breathing hard, getting fat on bad news.”
― Vera Jane Cook, Pleasant Day

“No truth on this goddamn planet ever made its way out of your mouth. If truth was hanging out of your nose you'd blow that goddamn truth bugger into a snot rag and toss it into a fire pit”
― Vera Jane Cook, Pleasant Day

“I am well practiced in avoidance and indifference though the hollowness in my soul resents her absence; I wear the mask I must.”
― Vera Jane Cook, Pleasant Day

“She doesn't respond, of course. She smirks. I guess she thinks of a smirk as a greeting.”
― Vera Jane Cook, Pleasant Day

“They looked over stimulated by something that had distracted them from their usual boredom and lazy egocentric paragraphs about nothing at all that ever held any interest for me.”
― Vera Jane Cook, Pleasant Day

“Daddy came and got me after dinner. Mama must have told him I knew that dead girl 'cause he was eyeing me all through Mama's pot roast like maybe I was going to get suicidal and hang myself from the ceiling light in my bedroom after the two helpings of dessert I took.”
― Vera Jane Cook, Pleasant Day

“I should have seen his weaknesses and only given him a section of myself but I loved him to my core, no matter who he was. There were no hidden places in my heart that would not welcome him or any sacred ground inside my being that he could not walk upon.”
― Vera Jane Cook, Pleasant Day

“His smile was a whole conversation just inviting you to enter in.”
― Vera Jane Cook, Pleasant Day

“He was approachable but he was too complex to know really well, too gifted at exaggeration to believe fully.”
― vera Jane Cook, Pleasant Day

“I wonder why the dead can't talk, look at all the crimes we'd solve if the damn dead would just Ouija board us our answers, or tell all those weird psychic people who killed 'em.”
― Vera Jane Cook, Pleasant Day

“Clarissa thought that was the problem with toothpaste, it always wound up looking like it had a drunken binge the night before and was spitting up all over itself.”
― Vera Jane Cook, Pleasant Day

“That's the thing about fine things, they couldn't alienate, they had to invite, as hers did”
― Vera Jane Cook, Pleasant Day

“She would have preferred being beautiful to looking as if she were perpetually sucking on sour drops.”
― Vera Jane Cook, Pleasant Day

“Nothing worse than grey light coming in your window on a Sunday morning. Personally, I don't like the color grey. It reminds me of the absence of color. I know, I know, people say grey is a color but it isn't. It's grey. Grey like smoke, like clouds, like ash. Grey like dirt and shale. Grey is Mr. Wiley's hair and a cat bit me once was grey. Grey is a deadly color. Grey gets between me and the sun and threatens rain. It's a downer, grey is. Don't ever wear grey, people are likely to avoid you.”
― Vera Jane Cook, Pleasant Day

“Insinuation is not truth, just conjecture”
― Vera Jane Cook, Pleasant Day

“I felt at any moment I might be swooped up and eaten by the profound sad tales of a Weeping Willow.”
― Vera Jane Cook, Pleasant Day

“Her childhood friend had decided that a man was the only thing that could come between them”
― Vera Jane Cook, Pleasant Day

“She looks real delicate, the type to cry at sad movies but she never does. Sometimes she even laughs when someone dies at the end of a movie, and when I look at her like she's missing marbles she tells me she knows how to separate and I should learn the skill.”
― Vera Jane Cook

“Daddy looked at me like I was as dumb as fake ice cream.”
― Vera Jane Cook, Pleasant Day

“I looked back at the two of them. I knew I didn't have the sharpest knives carving my Christmas turkey but I had what I had.”
― Vera Jane Cook, Pleasant Day

“Memories that cease to be painful are still nostalgic and nostalgia made her sad, always about a loss of time.”
― Vera Jane Cook, Pleasant Day

“Why my husband, Savannah?" Clarissa whispered. It was still a shock after all these years, a betrayal with an endless sting.”
― Vera Jane Cook

“He had become like an old sweater, full of holes but never to be discarded, too many cold nights to find it in the back of a drawer and pull out.”
― Vera Jane Cook, Pleasant Day

“life reveals that which we may never have guessed, that some people are so undeserving of us.”
― Vera Jane Cook, Pleasant Day

“The whole process disgusts me, just put me in the goddamn earth and walk away. I don’t want to lie on a cold slab in some old house waiting to have my innards drained and embalming fluid put inside my poor dead body, just put me in the goddamn earth and walk away.”
― Vera Jane Cook, Pleasant Day

“I mean, how does that crazy preacher know where the dead go and how the hell does he know the dead like being there? He's trying to make it sound like the only reason we get born is to bite the dust”
― Vera Jane Cook

“You know how to dance, young lady?"
"I was born knowing.”
― Vera Jane cook

“Everybody has got to hate someone, human nature”
― Vera Jane Cook, Pleasant Day