The Mad Tatter Quotes

“People still judge a book by its cover, Avery. And your story? It's beautiful. You're beautiful. But I'm nothing but a ripped out page, graffiti where some should never be. Don't taint your story with me.”
― J.M. Darhower, The Mad Tatter

“Come on," I say. "Dance with me now." "I didn't realize you danced." "I don't," I say. "But someone wise once told me that for the right woman, you've gotta be willing to do anything.”
― J.M. Darhower, The Mad Tatter

“She's young, and will probably move on someday, and get married, and maybe that dude will hate it but her? Her feelings won't ever change. Because people we love die, but the love? It never does. It became eternal the moment he stopped breathing. She'll always love his memory.”
― J.M. Darhower, The Mad Tatter

“You don't pay to look at art. You pay to keep a piece of it.”
― J.M. Darhower, The Mad Tatter

“what does Daddy say about people's opinions?"
"Not to listen to what they say and to form my own 'pinions."
"Except for…?"
"'Cept for strangers with candy, and the weatherman on TV, and police that won't show you their badges, and people who don't like music, 'cause we can't trust those people."
I laugh. "You forgot boys who want to date you. You should always trust your daddy's opinion on them.”
― J.M. Darhower, The Mad Tatter

“The dream lives on, Reece, and it never gives up on you, no matter what you might think. Dreams sometimes just change.”
― J.M. Darhower, The Mad Tatter

“Why does society always have to move on to something new when the old still works just as fucking good, you know?”
― J.M. Darhower, The Mad Tatter

“I feel like I'm in an entirely different world when
I'm with you, a world
I never knew existed before... like
I never knew it could be this way, that
I could be this way.”
― J.M. Darhower, The Mad Tatter

“I thought I would never experience
a moment more satisfying than last night,
but wow... these pancakes. Best ever."
"I'm not sure whether to be flattered or offended.”
― J.M. Darhower, The Mad Tatter

“Beautiful," I say. "Absolutely stunning."
"My tits?"
"I meant your dancing, but yeah... those, too.”
― J.M. Darhower, The Mad Tatter

“I feel like I'm in an entirely different world when I'm with you, a world I never knew existed before… like I never knew it could be this way, that I could be this way." "That's why they call it Wonderland, Aphrodite.”
― J.M. Darhower, The Mad Tatter

“I think, if he did it, it was just desperation. Because looking at her, I know she's my yellow. She's the happiness inside of me.”
― J.M. Darhower, The Mad Tatter

“She looks like a cheery girl, the kind who pledges Kai Beta Bullshit and throws mixers on the weekend with the frat boys at Alpha Kappa Douchebag.”
― J.M. Darhower, The Mad Tatter

“You're fooling yourself if you think you want to be with a guy like me," I tell her. "Our lives are too different. You might like dabbing your feet in my lake and running around naked on my shores, but you aren't ready to swim in my waters, Avery, because you'll fucking drown.”
― J.M. Darhower, The Mad Tatter

“Sometimes, I feel like I’m just a step away from that, just one breakdown away from chopping my own dick off and slapping somebody with it. The only thing stopping me is that I happen to like my dick. It gives me some of the only pleasure I get out of this life I’ve been given.”
― J.M. Darhower, The Mad Tatter

“She seemed like a keeper. Housewife material, verses your usual whorehouse type.”
― J.M. Darhower, The Mad Tatter

“Unspoken questions shine from her eyes, but I don't have the answers she wants to hear. All I have is the truth, the why, and it's ugly. She might've thought she liked it dirty, but she doesn't know dirty. She can't know it, unless she has lived it. Unless she is it.”
― J.M. Darhower, The Mad Tatter

“Maybe it's bullshit, I don't know, but they say van Gough used to eat yellow paint because he thought it would bring some happiness inside of him. They claim he was mad, that it was proof he'd gone crazy, but I don't believe it.”
― J.M. Darhower, The Mad Tatter

“besides, books are nothing more than paper and ink, anyway. They're like, dead trees all covered in tattoos, and I happen to think that's beautiful.”
― J.M. Darhower, The Mad Tatter

“he motions toward my discarded cigarette butt. "Littering”
― J.M. Darhower, The Mad Tatter

“Everyone needs cowboy boots, she told me, in case they need to ride a horse someday”
― J.M. Darhower, The Mad Tatter

“He said I was a pretty little thing.”
I kiss her again. “You are.”
“He called me a broad.”
Another kiss. “He did.”
“He said I was your girlfriend.”
I kiss her once more, this time deeper. “I heard.”
― J.M. Darhower, The Mad Tatter

“It's okay, Daddy,” Lexie says, smiling as she reaches over and pats the back of my hand. “Don't be sad. I still like playing with you, too.”
― J.M. Darhower, The Mad Tatter

“I know how you feel, but it's just a fact of life. The sky is blue, dinosaurs are big, boy bands are terrible, and Avery doesn't belong to us. She never did.”
― J.M. Darhower, The Mad Tatter

“No, that thievery is." I shake my head, turning away from the replication. "Nobody likes a cheap knock-off. If you're going to be an artist, you've gotta do your own thing. Be your own person. Create what's in you instead of impersonating others. They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but I call bullshit. It's one thing to be inspired by something. It's another thing to fucking copy it.”
― J.M. Darhower, The Mad Tatter

“Not personally, but I read." “You read?" “Yeah,” she says. “You’re starting to become somewhat of a cliché trope in romance novels, you know.”
― J.M. Darhower, The Mad Tatter