Cicada Spring Quotes

“Does anyone ever? Just take the leap and hope for the best. The bets we dare to make when the odds are against us are what define us. Sometimes you win and sometimes you lose. But that’s life. We can’t always protect ourselves. And as long as you do your honest best with what you have, everything else is just noise.”
― Christian Galacar, Cicada Spring

“What had happened to her did not need to define her. It didn’t have to be who she was. And it didn’t have to determine who she would become, either. It was time to move on.”
― Christian Galacar, Cicada Spring

“It’s a part of you now. A scar. It doesn’t have to be who you are, but it is a part of you. You need to accept that you’ll have to live with it. Don’t run from it, just beat it back whenever it tries to consume you.”
― Christian Galacar, Cicada Spring

“Then something caught her eye as she came around the back of the desk, something pinned under Harry’s shoulder. It was the corner of a photograph. Black and white. Catherine reached down and carefully pinched the edge the pictures between her fingers, dragging them out from underneath Harry.”
― Christian Galacar, Cicada Spring

“But how do you clean a soul? How do you deal with internal filth? How do you purge pain so deep-rooted that it’s become your identity?”
― Christian Galacar, Cicada Spring

“Gaines grabbed the two pictures off the passenger seat and stepped out of the car.”
― Christian Galacar, Cicada Spring

“Harry could see he had pushed the man to his breaking point, given him no avenue of escape, and that was a dangerous thing to do.”
― Christian Galacar, Cicada Spring

“Somebody save me. I’m drowning.”
― Christian Galacar, Cicada Spring

“No way in hell would anyone see her cry.”
― Christian Galacar, Cicada Spring

“Kara Price longed for her father, for someone to protect her the way only a father could. But she had pushed him away, and now she had no one to save her.”
― Christian Galacar, Cicada Spring

“It was her or the Golden Boy, Harry Bennett. Who they picked spoke volumes about who they were and what they stood for, so people were choosing the safe bet: Golden Boy.”
― Christian Galacar, Cicada Spring

“She felt as if she had shrunk to an impossibly small size.”
― Christian Galacar, Cicada Spring

“She knew girls lied about this type of thing all the time.”
― Christian Galacar, Cicada Spring

“His dirty blond hair”
― Christian Galacar, Cicada Spring

“People protect their own. People protect their own. People protect…”
― Christian Galacar, Cicada Spring

“He wanted—needed—David to know why.”
― Christian Galacar, Cicada Spring

“that girl’s”
― Christian Galacar, Cicada Spring

“Without any hard evidence, I’m not going to arrest him. That’s just the way it is. He’s a respected pillar of this community, and there is too much at stake.”
― Christian Galacar, Cicada Spring

“The best way to tell a lie, Harry knew, was to weave it with what was true. Anchor it to those shiny, authentic pieces.”
― Christian Galacar, Cicada Spring

“Life was easier for folks when they believed monsters were only the children of imagination, not walking among them in the flesh.”
― Christian Galacar, Cicada Spring

“The better you know someone, the better the tip. Not so different from your job,” she”
― Christian Galacar, Cicada Spring

“A boy with a normal childhood. No monsters in the closet. So that’s what he showed them.”
― Christian Galacar, Cicada Spring

“These were the sorts of memories that remained of his mother. Not many sweet ones.”
― Christian Galacar, Cicada Spring

“harlot”
― Christian Galacar, Cicada Spring

“everything that wasn’t right in the world, melt away. He was finally home, where he wanted to be.”
― Christian Galacar, Cicada Spring

“The problem is some of these are only signs of sexual activity, not necessarily assault.”
― Christian Galacar, Cicada Spring

“could not in good conscience take the sole accusation of a fifteen-year-old as absolute truth right out of the gate.”
― Christian Galacar, Cicada Spring

“As adults, we find solace in the knowledge that monsters do not exist. This is true because it’s what we choose to believe. That is the privilege of the practiced mind. But the terrifying reality is that monsters are real. They do exist. They are us. And that is more horrifying than anything I ever imagined as a child.”
― Christian Galacar, Cicada Spring

“rage on the edge of desire.”
― Christian Galacar, Cicada Spring

“at least?” “No.”
― Christian Galacar, Cicada Spring