A Wounded Name Quotes

“And promises, once made, must be kept, and if later you regret them, you should have been more careful in making them.”
― Dot Hutchison, A Wounded Name

“A promise is a rope around the neck.”
― Dot Hutchison, A Wounded Name

“Words never mean anything. Look beneath them.”
― Dot Hutchison, A Wounded Name

“If they look past the glitter, they have to see everything else, and no one wants to do that. No one wants to see the ugliness of a thing.”
― Dot Hutchison, A Wounded Name

“What I've finally begun to understand is that madness allows for an appalling honesty.”
― Dot Hutchison, A Wounded Name

“Love makes us liars and we call it protection.”
― Dot Hutchison, A Wounded Name

“I took my pills, but the pills are like words, they don't always mean anything even when they should.”
― Dot Hutchison, A Wounded Name

“I want someone to speak of me someday.”
― Dot Hutchison, A Wounded Name

“Pain is only for the best when it ends.”
― Dot Hutchison, A Wounded Name

“Sometimes love is naming the faults so they can't be forgotten.”
― Dot Hutchison, A Wounded Name

“When silence is a living thing, it can be a friend, sometimes even a comfort.”
― Dot Hutchison, A Wounded Name

“Dane and Horatio are the only ones who respect my decisions, who give me the space to make them, even if I never say what they are. They don't make them for me and simply assume that I'll obey, that I'll follow along with no will and no mind as I so often do.”
― Dot Hutchison, A Wounded Name

“I am a living wound upon the soul.”
― Dot Hutchison, A Wounded Name

“If I weren't a ghost tied to my dead mother in the lake--if I had things I wanted to do and a person I wanted to be--I think I would hate it here.”
― Dot Hutchison, A Wounded Name

“The boys progress and advance, and the girls cling to a time that was never ours.”
― Dot Hutchison, A Wounded Name