fresh cuts 2 Quotes

“But I would rather die while trying to do something than just let myself fall.”
― Joan Reginaldo, fresh cuts 2: the skinning volume

“I can’t trust someone so cool about taking a life.”
― Joan Reginaldo, fresh cuts 2: the skinning volume

“I’m not a hundred percent sure why I’m here, only that it feels good to be somewhere where no one hates me. It’s sad that I would rather be with a total stranger than with people that should’ve been my family.”
― Joan Reginaldo, fresh cuts 2: the skinning volume

“You’re arguing with yourself. Face it, you’re holding them back. They could do so much more if they didn’t have to drag your useless ass around with them.”
― Joan Reginaldo, fresh cuts 2: the skinning volume

“Next time, test the water before jumping in.” “I’m starting to learn that lesson.”
― Joan Reginaldo, fresh cuts 2: the skinning volume

“The colors are so vibrant, the reds feel like they could cut skin, the blues emanate coldness, and I can almost taste the yellow. Whatever yellow tastes like. I don’t know. It just feels like I can.”
― Joan Reginaldo, fresh cuts 2: the skinning volume

“When you’re a boy thinking you’ll grow into a man but it doesn’t work out like that, it really torques your Oedipal complex.”
― Joan Reginaldo, fresh cuts 2: the skinning volume

“He was just a man nostalgic for a past that had promised a different future than what he’d gotten, shrunken testicles and man-boobs.”
― Joan Reginaldo, fresh cuts 2: the skinning volume

“Sometimes, she was like an unexploded bomb. It was hard to guess what might set her off. It didn’t occur to him that she might be upset at something other than him.”
― Joan Reginaldo, fresh cuts 2: the skinning volume

“We can warm the place up with some friction.”
― Joan Reginaldo, fresh cuts 2: the skinning volume

“she could say stuff that had deeper meaning because she noticed stuff others missed. And she was positive when he felt negative. Cheerful when he was cranky. Strong when he felt weak. “Because we’re bipolar,” she would say. “Just tell it like it is,” he would say, “we’re fucking nuts with a death wish.”
― Joan Reginaldo, fresh cuts 2: the skinning volume

“The Milky Way is one of millions of galaxies, and it’s all so much bigger than us. I hope that’s where we go when we’re dead. Up there, in the stars of the Milky Way.”
― Joan Reginaldo, fresh cuts 2: the skinning volume

“Whoa, that is really something...but, who gives a damn?”
― Joan Reginaldo, fresh cuts 2: the skinning volume

“The sex after was nearly epic. It still brought a smile.”
― Joan Reginaldo, fresh cuts 2: the skinning volume

“He didn’t talk to her for weeks which only made him look more like a pussy. In the end, he gave in because she wasn’t going to back down or apologize. Too proud, and he respected that.”
― Joan Reginaldo, fresh cuts 2: the skinning volume

“You’re about the closest thing to a real man I know,” she said, “but, you’re kind of a pussy.”
― Joan Reginaldo, fresh cuts 2: the skinning volume

“That wasn’t a crime. Being a dreamer.”
― Joan Reginaldo, fresh cuts 2: the skinning volume

“That alien, unreachable, unattainable happiness, I could not destroy; I had built half of it.”
― Joan Reginaldo, fresh cuts 2: the skinning volume

“They both look...happy. It’s a feeling I barely remember but I know that once I have it, I’d recognize it, like the scent of an old teddy bear.”
― Joan Reginaldo, fresh cuts 2: the skinning volume

“These days, physical death isn’t the worst thing that can happen to someone.”
― Joan Reginaldo, fresh cuts 2: the skinning volume

“They hadn’t known about me. Or they knew and didn’t care. The story of my life.”
― Joan Reginaldo, fresh cuts 2: the skinning volume

“Like I can’t... There’s all these things I try to say but it’s like no one understands me. Like no one hears me or something. Like, sounds come out, but...”
― Joan Reginaldo, fresh cuts 2: the skinning volume

“I want to keep quiet and not risk being disappointed again, but I take a chance.”
― Joan Reginaldo, fresh cuts 2: the skinning volume

“I can’t tell if the new pills help, but I do have to go to my next appointment or risk my psychiatrist cutting me off from my next refill. I almost appreciate the irony in that threat.”
― Joan Reginaldo, fresh cuts 2: the skinning volume

“Girls who still believe in happily ever after.”
― Joan Reginaldo, fresh cuts 2: the skinning volume

“You can do better,”
― Joan Reginaldo, fresh cuts 2: the skinning volume

“But I saved you,” I say. “And I’m sorry I can’t return the favor...”
― Joan Reginaldo, fresh cuts 2: the skinning volume

“I can try harder. I’ll go... I’ll see more doctors. I’ll take more meds. I can try harder for you. For us.” “It’s not working.” “Just give it a chance. Would you just give it a chance?”
― Joan Reginaldo, fresh cuts 2: the skinning volume

“His voice is as cold as the ocean.”
― Joan Reginaldo, fresh cuts 2: the skinning volume

“They will not hurt you – unless you give them a reason. But people forget.”
― Joan Reginaldo, fresh cuts 2: the skinning volume