When Smiles Fade Quotes

“JUST LISTEN

“When your mind is quiet and you listen closely, you will hear the children weeping silently. If you can’t quite hear their cries, then listen with your eyes. These are the children of the streets, who have learned pain and suffering before they ever had a chance to experience life. Do not ignore their cries for help, for all they wish is that you will rescue them. They do not have a family that wants them, they don’t know how it feels to be loved and they’ve never lived anywhere that felt like home…the streets are where they find their voice and relief from all of the suffering.

Just listen and you’ll see them.”
― Paige Dearth, When Smiles Fade

“ISBN: 1475096925”
― Paige Dearth, When Smiles Fade

“When smiles fade, girl, you’ll know it’s time to move on.”
― Paige Dearth, When Smiles Fade

“Inside the bar, Kid Rock’s song American Bad Ass blared so loudly that it drowned out the noise of the gunfire and none of the drunken patrons heard a thing.”
― Paige Dearth, When Smiles Fade

“When smiles fade, girl, that’s when you know it’s time to move on.”
― Paige Dearth, When Smiles Fade

“I’m here to find out if you wanted to give our relationship a second chance.”
― Paige Dearth, When Smiles Fade

“Emma sat on her bed, smirking, satisfied that she had taken care of one more asshole in the everlasting procession of scum that seemed to come her way. In her world, people who fucked with children were scumbags and shouldn’t be given a second chance.”
― Paige Dearth, When Smiles Fade

“Emma flashed him a sinister smile as he screamed and begged her for help. “Oh, Jamie,” she said, her tone malicious, “I thought you liked dogs. At least that’s what Izzy told me. Woof! Woof! Woof! You big dick! She told me what you made her do, you fucking perverted prick!” Jamie’s eyes bulged out of their sockets. He realized too late that she had set him up. Terror devoured him”
― Paige Dearth, When Smiles Fade

“Three pit bulls stood facing him. His instinct told him to climb back over the fence to safety, but with all the alcohol he’d consumed, his motor skills were impaired, his gait was wobbly, and sheer terror had frozen his feet in place. Before Jamie could put his fingers through the chain-link fence to get the grip he needed to begin his climb, the dogs were on top of him. They gnawed at the flesh of his calves as if they were eating chicken wings served at a Super Bowl party.”
― Paige Dearth, When Smiles Fade

“As they drove away from the apartment, the two men sat in silence. They lived for these moments. There was nothing more enjoyable than killing for justice.”
― Paige Dearth, When Smiles Fade

“The broomstick entered Ethan with such force he thought it had broken through his rectum and into his stomach. Then the man withdrew the broom just as abruptly and did it again. And again. And again. Dropping the broom to the floor, he made his way around to look Ethan in the face. “Ain’t too nice, is it?” Vincent tormented. Tony”
― Paige Dearth, When Smiles Fade

“So it was all right for you to do this to your girlfriend, but it ain’t all right for you. Huh?” Vincent asked. Ethan shook his head vigorously. Vincent looked at the broomstick. “You know,” he seethed, “what I’d like to do is split your fuckin’ head open with this, but if I did that, you wouldn’t be awake for all the fun you’re about to have. Now would ya?”
― Paige Dearth, When Smiles Fade

“Still annoyed about Ethan, Salvatore parked his car in front of his house in South Philly. He vowed to himself that he would take care of things the way they should have been taken care of a long time ago—even if it meant that Emma ended up hating him. At least then he would feel like a man of honor.”
― Paige Dearth, When Smiles Fade

“They stripped him and tied him to a metal chair where they beat him with a bat, cut his arms and legs with dull knives, and three days later killed him by wrapping his entire head in plastic wrap, watching as he suffocated to death. His long punishment and slow death”
― Paige Dearth, When Smiles Fade

“Salvatore had been exposed to violence his whole life. He was now reminded of how the Mafia had begun centuries before he was born. His father told him of the story of a French soldier who raped a Palermo girl, only fourteen years old at the time, on her wedding day in 1282. When the raped girl’s mother found her she ran through the streets crying and screaming “ma fia, ma fia,” or “my daughter, my daughter.” Sicily’s citizens banded together and revolted against the French. On Easter Monday, at”
― Paige Dearth, When Smiles Fade

“From the way he stank, Emma could tell he hadn’t showered in a long time. His dick smelled like he had shoved it up his own ass. She nearly gagged from the odor, annoying him so intensely that he punched her on top of the head.”
― Paige Dearth, When Smiles Fade

“It was while lifting the mattress that Brianna found Gracie’s journal.”
― Paige Dearth, When Smiles Fade

“Salvatore’s father is Johnny Morano. He’s the head of the Mafia family here in Philly.”
― Paige Dearth, When Smiles Fade

“But a slow, grinding anger was building up within her and she welcomed it this time, letting it course through her veins and reach her heart, its flames red-hot, obliterating, and turning to ashes any love she might have once felt for him.”
― Paige Dearth, When Smiles Fade

“By the way, my name is Salvatore,” he said, extending his hand to her.”
― Paige Dearth, When Smiles Fade

“Maybe Mrs. Tisdale sent him to me, she thought. But it was more likely that Pepper had sent Ethan to her.”
― Paige Dearth, When Smiles Fade

“Ethan’s only real motivation was to control her.”
― Paige Dearth, When Smiles Fade

“Emma made her first mistake by allowing Ethan into her heart.”
― Paige Dearth, When Smiles Fade

“Up until then, Emma had no clue as to the kind of person Ethan really was.”
― Paige Dearth, When Smiles Fade

“They turned off the highway and onto Somerset Street, driving until they reached Kensington Avenue. It was obviously not the best part of town.”
― Paige Dearth, When Smiles Fade

“Even toward the end, she had been slipping large doses of poison into his soup. She was truly proud of having killed her father. In her mind, she had killed her father to save herself and her sister from his sadistic behavior. She was finally free of the son of a bitch. He had beaten her unmercifully and now he was finally dead.”
― Paige Dearth, When Smiles Fade

“As she watched him eat his stew laced with the tasteless, odorless poison, Emma rejoiced in what was to come. She had never felt so good in her life. Adrenaline raced through her veins. She almost felt high. She was euphoric. Paybacks are a bitch, she thought to herself.”
― Paige Dearth, When Smiles Fade

“Pepper had taken to hiding behind bushes and cars and either throwing large stones at other children as they walked by or whacking them on the back with thick tree branches.”
― Paige Dearth, When Smiles Fade