Love, Mom Quotes

“Boys will be boys.” I hate that phrase, the lame excuse for predator behavior.”
― Iliana Xander, Love, Mom

“Everyone is capable of horrible things. It just depends on how bad a day gets.”
― Iliana Xander, Love, Mom

“They say knowledge is power. They don’t tell you how powerful it is at destroying people.”
― Iliana Xander, Love, Mom

“Beauty and talent can be as much of a blessing as they can be a curse. An apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.”
― Iliana Xander, Love, Mom

“When we are born with a talent, it can become a curse.”
― Iliana Xander, Love, Mom

“The best thing about heartbreak is that it often helps you see the truth in all its ugly colors. It hurts”
― Iliana Xander, Love, Mom

“True evil is not taught, I wrote in my novel. True evil is natural born.”
― Iliana Xander, Love, Mom

“guys. You fall for the wrong ones.”
― Iliana Xander, Love, Mom

“That’s the moment of truth. Feeling is how reality makes itself known. Pain is its ultimate manifestation.”
― Iliana Xander, Love, Mom

“Our present is often a collage of our past deeds.”
― Iliana Xander, Love, Mom

“Punishment is white. Revenge is red. Mine was bloody-black.”- Iliana Xander, Love, Mom”
― Iliana Xander, Love, Mom

“The worst thing about heartbreak is that, sometimes, it makes you do unspeakable things.”
― Iliana Xander, Love, Mom

“You don’t know that glass is broken if you don’t hear it break. Even when you see it, it still doesn’t fully register in your mind. But when you step on it, oh, then you feel it. That’s the moment of truth. Feeling is how reality makes itself known. Pain is its ultimate manifestation.”
― Iliana Xander, Love, Mom

“The best thing about heartbreak is that it often helps you see the truth in all its ugly colors. It hurts, but it teaches you a lesson.”
― Iliana Xander, Love, Mom

“Sometimes, to understand your present, you have to look into the past.”
― Iliana Xander, Love, Mom

“Sometimes, just sometimes, fiction becomes reality…”
― Iliana Xander, Love, Mom

“the”
― Iliana Xander, Love, Mom

“I am soon to be a co-parent with the girl I’m supposed to marry.”
― Iliana Xander, Love, Mom

“Don’t let the boys ruin that. They always want to get their sticky hands on pretty things like you. Boys will be boys.” I hate that phrase, the lame excuse for predator behavior.”
― Iliana Xander, Love, Mom

“I stare out the window”
― Iliana Xander, Love, Mom

“staying”
― Iliana Xander, Love, Mom

“Because I was still in love but embarrassed about loving someone who didn’t treat me the way I wanted.”
― Iliana Xander, Love, Mom

“I shrugged. What could I say? Because that was how things played out. Because I didn’t want to be with anyone anymore. Because I was still in love but embarrassed about loving someone who didn’t treat me the way I wanted.”
― Iliana Xander, Love, Mom

“women.”
― Iliana Xander, Love, Mom

“likely.”
― Iliana Xander, Love, Mom

“it.”
― Iliana Xander, Love, Mom

“ones.”
― Iliana Xander, Love, Mom

“heartbreaks”
― Iliana Xander, Love, Mom

“betrayal.”
― Iliana Xander, Love, Mom

“You remind me of a girl from school, when I was fifteen or so. She liked to play with fire, that one. Check this out, guys, so this girl⁠—”
― Iliana Xander, Love, Mom