Dollars Quotes

“I'm Pim-sick and it's not a good illness to have.”
― Pepper Winters, Dollars

“Her nakedness wasn’t vulnerability. It was her strength.”
― Pepper Winters, Dollars

“Whoever returned from war in one piece? Body or mind?”
― Pepper Winters, Dollars

“Don’t fear the future. Only endure the present.”
― Pepper Winters, Dollars

“I need to live in the moment. The future I cannot control.”
― Pepper Winters, Dollars

“His voice fell dark and low. “I told you you are worth more than pennies, yet you cling to a dollar as if it’s the sum of your value.”
― Pepper Winters, Dollars

“He created love but violence at the same time.”
― Pepper Winters, Dollars

“You hold all the power in this situation, Pim. One little word and all my fucking secrets are yours.”
― Pepper Winters, Dollars

“Accept that you are strong enough to endure the present. The rest doesn’t matter.”
― Pepper Winters, Dollars

“Elder Prest was the most dangerous man I’d ever known. Not because he could kill me whenever he chose, but because he had the power to steal so much more than just my life. He could steal my heart.”
― Pepper Winters, Dollars

“Her thoughts were more valuable to me than her body.”
― Pepper Winters, Dollars

“Don't expect the worst because, by expecting the worst, you're inviting it to come true.”
― Pepper Winters, Dollars

“What would it be like to have such strong emotions? To hand over your entire heart, never fearing it would be rejected? I’d known what that was like once upon a time. It’d been such a long time ago, I’d forgotten. Shared affection was as mythical to me now as breathing beneath the waves like a fish.”
― Pepper Winters, Dollars

“Treat him right because men respond to praise. If they know they’ve done well, they want to try harder. If they see how happy they make you, they’ll do more to keep you that way. Don’t belittle them and never, ever blame them for things that aren’t their fault. Even the things that are their fault, give them some slack.”
― Pepper Winters, Dollars

“I don’t understand you, silent one, but I will.”
― Pepper Winters, Dollars

“I wrote notes to No One before tossing them out to sea, as if the ocean had become my own personal wishing well for things I could never have.”
― Pepper Winters, Dollars

“A part of you was stolen, and you might never get that back. But what you will get in return is someone so much stronger than the rest of us. Someone who has lived damnation and survived.”
― Pepper Winters, Dollars

“You, my girl, are a warrior, and even warriors are allowed to be afraid.”
― Pepper Winters, Dollars

“You don't need to know what the future holds. No one does. After all, no one can truly know or predict what their next day will include. All you need to know is right now. Can you survive right now? Can you survive today? If the answer is yes, then keep going. Who cares what other people's agendas are? You can't control that. You shouldn't weaken yourself by worrying. Accept that you are strong enough to endure the present. The rest doesn't matter.”
― Pepper Winters, Dollars

“No matter what happens, never hold grudges. Grudges are the worst things in life. No matter if that grudge is justified, it's the poison that kills entire cities.”
― Pepper Winters, Dollars

“I owed her for reasons I couldn’t untangle yet. I didn’t intend to throw her overboard just because she might be mentally unstable. Fuck, all of us were mentally unstable to a degree. I wouldn’t be a hypocrite and deny otherwise. She was one of the strongest women I’d come across, and she hadn’t spoken a word. That sort of strength…it did things to men like me. It made me want to break her and shelter her in equal measure. It set a war in motion between the devil and angel on my shoulders, and only time would tell what part of me would win. My”
― Pepper Winters, Dollars

“I would survive. Because that was what I was born to do.  ”
― Pepper Winters, Dollars

“I was worth living. I was worth surviving. And I would never again let nature or man take that away from me.”
― Pepper Winters, Dollars

“If I could survive this—bare as I was born and open in every way I could possibly be, I could survive anything. I had survived everything. And this was me claiming that life back by acknowledging that yes, I was small, yes, I was inconsequential, but I still breathed.”
― Pepper Winters, Dollars

“She cheated on her past with happiness.”
― Pepper Winters, Dollars

“Sly was just another word for self-preservation: watching and waiting for weakness.”
― Pepper Winters, Dollars

“There was reason in this world and then there was irrationality.”
― Pepper Winters, Dollars

“How did anyone stay decent when self-obsession and lawlessness seemed to favour the bold?”
― Pepper Winters, Dollars

“You don’t write wishes, you write confessions. There’s a difference.”
― Pepper Winters, Dollars

“However, perhaps I’ll be your genie. Write down your wishes, silent one. Tell me what I can do to make it right.”
― Pepper Winters, Dollars