Diavola Quotes

“You were looking for the weak one in the flock, right? The one you could draw aside and push over the edge. Isolate from everyone and feed upon, but see, that was the first flaw in your logic: I’m not a lost lamb. I’m a black sheep.”
― Jennifer Marie Thorne, Diavola

“Control was antithetical to life. To be alive is to be battered about. To endure and adapt and keep stumbling onward despite it all.”
― Jennifer Thorne, Diavola

“This is what most people spend their lives trying not to face. The pointlessness of it all. Things fall apart, the center cannot hold because there was never any center in the first place.”
― Jennifer Marie Thorne, Diavola

“You don't want to be alive. You want to be in control." Control is antithetical to life. To be alive is to be battered about. To endure and adapt and keep stumbling onward despite it all.”
― Jennifer Thorne, Diavola

“There were moments often, when she felt her presence as a question mark, the very purpose of her existence a debate for others to freely take up.”
― Jennifer Thorne, Diavola

“Could you back the fuck off for two seconds? I am monologuing!' Anna snarled.”
― Jennifer Marie Thorne, Diavola

“You were looking for the weak one in the flock, right? The one you could draw aside and push over the edge. Isolate from everyone and feed upon, but see, that was the first flaw in your logic: I’m not a lost lamb. I’m a black sheep.”
― Jennifer Thorne, Diavola

“She sat in the open window, listening to the cicadas outside, the string orchestra of the Tuscan countryside—when abruptly, all sound stopped, like someone had muted the world with a remote control. And in that instant, Anna felt it. Heaviness seeping into the villa. The space around her crawling closer, squirming around her, loaded, conscious. More biological than chemical.”
― Jennifer Marie Thorne, Diavola

“La dama bianca. Ricca, potente. Vinaio. Infedele. Ossessiva. Colture avvelenate. Il figlio. Veleno, tutti avvelenati. Attacchi ai vivi. Allucinazione. Esorcismo. La chiave. La chiave del male. La chiave del torre. Mi dispiace. Perdonami, perdonami, perdonami”
― Jennifer Marie Thorne, Diavola

“There was something careful about the energy here. Not calm, exactly. More … preserved in amber.”
― Jennifer Marie Thorne, Diavola

“She went to bed just before midnight, a much more civilized hour than nine thirty, as respectably tipsy as she should be on vacation, and at last, relaxed enough to sleep. The scream came just before dawn.”
― Jennifer Marie Thorne, Diavola

“There was nothing amiss in the villa right now. Even so, Anna made it a quick trip. She grabbed a can of limonata and a tourist guidebook and took them straight back outside. Her step faltered as she headed back down poolside and she let out a startled cry. There were two people floating in the water. Facedown. A blink, and they were gone, merely the shadows from the surrounding trees.”
― Jennifer Marie Thorne, Diavola

“you’d think I’d know by now. Anna does not need a mother! She has never needed a mother. There is nothing I can offer that she would find useful. So I will stop trying!”
― Jennifer Marie Thorne, Diavola

“She slept even in her dream, a dream of dreaming.”
― Jennifer Thorne, Diavola

“Every work felt dimmed, reduced by her own rote description of it.”
― Jennifer Thorne, Diavola

“You are using your talent, Benny said. Albeit in a very oblique way.”
― Jennifer Thorne, Diavola

“And once you’ve decided you’re not being observational, all bets are off.”
― Jennifer Thorne, Diavola

“You just have to lean into the discomfort, welcome it like a friend, and commit to wearing only what feels good against your skin.”
― Jennifer Marie Thorne, Diavola

“To endure and adapt and keep stumbling onward despite it all.”
― Jennifer Marie Thorne, Diavola

“Mom was a human sponge designed to absorb and spread anxiety.”
― Jennifer Marie Thorne, Diavola

“Waverly shook her head, the corners of her mouth turning down. “They don’t want to know. She wants us to be confused but nobody wants to know anyway. You can’t look right at it so they pretend it’s all pretty and normal but it’s not, Anna, it’s not!”
― Jennifer Marie Thorne, Diavola

“They were alike, Anna and her father, but often in the wrong ways. They were identical magnets, she thought, turned to repel.”
― Jennifer Marie Thorne, Diavola

“Control was antithetical to life. To be alive is to be battered about. To endure and adapt and keep stumbling onward despite it all.”
― Jennifer Marie Thorne, Diavola

“Keep cursed and carry on.”
― Jennifer Marie Thorne, Diavola