Such a Pretty Girl Quotes

“The ache starts in my chest and spreads through my veins. The abuse I can handle; it's the happiness that cripples.”
― Laura Wiess, Such a Pretty Girl

“We wait to be rescued, but for whatever reason, no one comes. We figure that if no one protects us then we must not be worth protecting so we become prey and are easily picked off. Our wounded, kicked-puppy gazes attract sly predators and we sell ourselves for clearance sale prices, mistaking screwing for caring.”
― Laura Wiess, Such a Pretty Girl

“A victim soul is a pious individual chosen to absorb the pain and suffering of others.”
― Laura Wiess, Such a Pretty Girl

“What's the point of obsessing over cholesterol or bike helmets or even cigarettes when the biggest threats to our children are being released back into society every day? Yes, maybe 'some' of them have reformed, but what about the ones who haven't? Doesn't anyone realize that one 'touch', one 'time' will destroy a child's life ten times faster than a pack-a-day habit?”
― Laura Wiess, Such a Pretty Girl

“Tomorrow belongs to betrayal. Today is mine and I don't want to waste it being afraid.”
― Laura Wiess, Such a Pretty Girl

“In my family, you can rot to hell on the inside as long as you’re flawless on the outside, which is really sick, but also hard to unlearn.”
― Laura Wiess, Such a Pretty Girl

“How about giving your old man a break here, huh, Chirp?"

"Chirp is dead," I hear myself say and watch the flat words destroy his pleasure. "You killed her, and now you have to deal with me because I'm what's left.”
― Laura Wiess, Such a Pretty Girl

“Meredith's a big girl. She knows how babies are made, don't you, Mer?"

I nod, numb and weary. "'Course I do. Same guy that taught you taught me.”
― Laura Wiess, Such a Pretty Girl

“We have babies because we want them to love us, to make us important, but the only make us tired and fat and stinking of spit up because they're babies, not saviors. Their fathers leave us, sick of crap and sour milk, sweatpants and tears.
But the babies still need all of us, only there isn't anything left to give because we based our worth on the lowlifes who knocked us up and around.
So our babies end up screwed up and screwed with because not we're single again, too, so we're bringing home guys who secretly like pink satin baby skin more than our silvery stretch marks. We don't see what we should see because having anyone is till supposedly better than being alone.”
― Laura Wiess, Such a Pretty Girl

“And I don't want to hurt anymore. I want to be someone who makes it through”
― Laura Wiess, Such a Pretty Girl

“You can't come wandering around in at all hours of the night looking like you've been-"

"Raped?" "Not to worry, Estertown's been safe for three years now, Dad.”
― Laura Wiess, Such a Pretty Girl

“I know the grim probability of my own future.
The odds are high that the best of me has already been ripped away and that id I don't keep hold of myself I will lose what's left.”
― Laura Wiess, Such a Pretty Girl

“Hell no. You're what saved you, kid. Not divine intervention.”
― Laura Wiess, Such a Pretty Girl

“So I leave proof of my existence behind me like a snail trail with the small hope that years of talking at me will someday soften her enough to talk with me, that she'll finally pull the knife from my chest and say yes, we are better off without him. That what happened wasn't my fault and from now on she will thrust herself between me and danger, and shout NO.”
― Laura Wiess, Such a Pretty Girl

“this is no place for miracles”
― Laura Wiess, Such a Pretty Girl

“The distant threat of eternal damnation pales in comparison to the immediate gratification of corrupting young skin.”
― Laura Wiess, Such a Pretty Girl

“Tonight is when the obscene becomes the acceptable.”
― Laura Wiess, Such a Pretty Girl

“Be good. Be a nice girl. Don't ruin our happy family.”
― Laura Wiess, Such a Pretty Girl

“I am shrunken and shriveled inside, a rotten chestnut hidden beneath a deceptively smooth shell”
― Laura Wiess, Such a Pretty Girl

“Oh, there's a wholesome outing.' I say. 'Let's all skip down to the cop shop to register my daddy as a pervert. What fun.”
― Laura Wiess, Such a Pretty Girl

“They brought along a young man named Andy who wants very much to see you." She steps aside to let him through.
I tuck my hair back behind my ears.
Meet his shining gaze and break into a smile.
He is so tall.”
― Laura Wiess, Such a Pretty Girl

“What are you doing?" I say hoarsely as he trails a finger from the beauty mark on my rib cage to the one on my hip, leaving a path of goose bumps in his wake.

"Connecting the dots," he murmurs with a wicked look. "Uh-oh, you made me lose my place. Now I have to start all over again...”
― Laura Wiess, Such a Pretty Girl

“Silence was the key to self-preservation.”
― Laura Wiess, Such a Pretty Girl

“The weight in my pocket nudges my thigh, suddenly becomes my knife. I put my hand to its unforgiving outline and can't stop crying years of tears because if I don't stab my father with my weapon, then he is going to stab me with his.”
― Laura Wiess, Such a Pretty Girl

“Rape is not a mistake! He did it on purpose, over and over again because he wanted to, because he off on it-”
― Laura Wiess, Such a Pretty Girl

“That was the attorney. He said the doctors are very pleased with your father's progress and that his behavior has been exemplary-'
'Well, that's stupid.' My reaction was rude and raw. 'Of course he's been a model prisoner, Mom. There aren't any kids to molest in prison.”
― Laura Wiess, Such a Pretty Girl

“Physical imperfections have always offended him, but apparently my bad hygiene wasn't repellent enough. Perhaps Ms. Mues's full-blown adulthood will be.”
― Laura Wiess, Such a Pretty Girl

“We wait to be rescued, but for whatever reason, no one comes. We figure that if no one protects us then we must not be worth protecting so we become prey and are easily picked off. Our wounded, kicked-puppy gazes attract sly predators and we sell ourselves for clearance sale prices, mistaking screwing for caring. We binge, purge, sleep around. We drink too much and get too high, anything to blot out the past.”
― Laura Wiess, Such a Pretty Girl

“knowing deep inside some ghosts are too cruel to question”
― Laura Wiess, Such a Pretty Girl

“There are only the three of us and our dark, burgeoning desires
I am so afraid of what comes next”
― Laura Wiess, Such a Pretty Girl