Pleasant Day Quotes

“I should have seen his weaknesses and only given him a section of myself but I loved him to my core, no matter who he was. There were no hidden places in my heart that would not welcome him or any sacred ground inside my being that he could not walk upon.”
― Vera Jane Cook, Pleasant Day

“I been sitting here by Millie's grave trying to figure out death, but it's a hard mystery to unravel. I don't know why God gives it to us to bear 'cause it leaves so deep a scar when we lose a loved one. We make up all these dumb clichés to try and explain what happens after death but not a one of them makes a lick of sense to me. Thinking there's a heaven somewhere don't mean shit. I have no guarantee of any heaven and having faith in something I can't see makes me feel like a fool.”
― Vera Jane Cook, Pleasant Day

“Clarissa noticed his eyes, they were like indifferent tides, shielding knowledge of an impending storm”
― Vera Jane Cook, Pleasant Day

“Daddy says that one day all I'll think about is people I used to know.”
― Vera Jane Cook, Pleasant Day

“Daddy came and got me after dinner. Mama must have told him I knew that dead girl 'cause he was eyeing me all through Mama's pot roast like maybe I was going to get suicidal and hang myself from the ceiling light in my bedroom after the two helpings of dessert I took.”
― Vera Jane Cook, Pleasant Day

“It was perfect. The birds and the sky and the yellow leaves of Autumn. This was what it was, this life. It was tenuous and frail and yet fraught with beauty, and with beauty comes sadness. If you opt in to loving then you opt in to being human, to having your heart break a million times over. It's a circle of sorts. The more you go round the more laughter you find, the more laughter, the more joy, the more sadness. That is what life is. I felt something warm in my heart and I reached for Angus' hand.”
― Vera Jane Cook, Pleasant Day

“She heard his scream, Graham's scream, and she smiled. She would bear the pain. She would heal. He would not.”
― Vera Jane Cook, Pleasant Day

“age is the ambrosia waiting to be sipped, the compliment hiding in the wings, waiting to be given to that which is too young today to value the character it will have tomorrow.”
― Vera Jane Cook, Pleasant Day

“He had become like an old sweater, full of holes but never to be discarded, too many cold nights to find it in the back of a drawer and pull out.”
― Vera Jane Cook, Pleasant Day

“And the ghosts walked into my memory, into the happiness, into the pain of my future, and they wished me well. I turned, as though I saw them in the unfolding season, in the beauty and in the death of autumn. Perhaps I had, perhaps I had.”
― Vera Jane Cook, Pleasant Day

“We will always be in each other's life."
"And so too, the betrayals. They'll be there too." Savannah seemed stunned but Clarissa noticed her quick recovery.
"And so too, the laughter," she said as she began to close the door behind her. "And so too, the love," she added as the lock caught.”
― Vera Jane Cook, Pleasant Day

“Angus had been hurt deeply by what John Peter had done, that he might have lost a friend in such a horrible way. I could see that. But even aside from the stupid thing John Peter had done, Angus was hurting for me, feeling my pain, taking it with him as he rode off. He might not have understood all of what I was feeling but he had embraced it. He didn't get it after Millie died, but now he knew what loss could do to a person. Empathy just might save the world one day.”
― Vera Jane Cook, Pleasant Day

“The ashes of our mistakes are between us. There's still smoke from the fire, isn't there?”
― Vera Jane Cook, Pleasant Day

“Clarissa remembered why she didn't like him, he was astucious, an ambiguous villain in a gentleman's three piece suit.”
― Vera Jane Cook, Pleasant Day

“life reveals that which we may never have guessed, that some people are so undeserving of us.”
― Vera Jane Cook, Pleasant Day

“I looked back at the two of them. I knew I didn't have the sharpest knives carving my Christmas turkey but I had what I had.”
― Vera Jane Cook, Pleasant Day

“He was approachable but he was too complex to know really well, too gifted at exaggeration to believe fully.”
― vera Jane Cook, Pleasant Day

“I am well practiced in avoidance and indifference though the hollowness in my soul resents her absence; I wear the mask I must.”
― Vera Jane Cook, Pleasant Day

“No truth on this goddamn planet ever made its way out of your mouth. If truth was hanging out of your nose you'd blow that goddamn truth bugger into a snot rag and toss it into a fire pit”
― Vera Jane Cook, Pleasant Day

“Little bastard would never get as tall as the tales he told.”
― Vera Jane Cook, Pleasant Day

“Jealousy is a human emotion," she said with a smile. "If you weren't jealous if another man flirted with me I'd be terribly disappointed.”
― Vera Jane Cook, Pleasant Day

“I guess, if you ever had God figured out the universe would be split in thousands of pieces and it would disappear and we who have dreamed ourselves alive would all fade away in all those splintered parts. What I mean to say is, it isn't meant for us to know anything.”
― Vera Jane Cook, Pleasant Day

“Good decorating is a story, Pleasant. It's a story of taste. It's a story of personality, of character. Look at any good decorated room and I defy you to tell me it doesn't have a story to tell. When I see a well painted room I want to meet the storyteller behind the color chosen. I truly do. Show me a man with taste and I'll show you a man with characte”
― Vera Jane Cook, Pleasant Day

“I hopped into the passenger side of his should be banned from the road Ford.”
― Vera Jane cook, Pleasant Day

“Memories that cease to be painful are still nostalgic and nostalgia made her sad, always about a loss of time.”
― Vera Jane Cook, Pleasant Day

“Insinuation is not truth, just conjecture”
― Vera Jane Cook, Pleasant Day

“That's the thing about fine things, they couldn't alienate, they had to invite, as hers did”
― Vera Jane Cook, Pleasant Day

“Clarissa thought that was the problem with toothpaste, it always wound up looking like it had a drunken binge the night before and was spitting up all over itself.”
― Vera Jane Cook, Pleasant Day

“He stood there breathing hard, getting fat on bad news.”
― Vera Jane Cook, Pleasant Day

“He put his head up to the sky and closed his eyes. The tear that fell down his cheek glistened in the sun and remained there, like the impression of a scar”
― Vera Jane Cook, Pleasant Day