Cool Shade Quotes

“Is there anything else I should know about you?” she asked in a voice that was both serious and teasing, her emotions fragile. “Any other surprises?” “Sometimes I watch Dukes of Hazzard reruns.” She”
― Theresa Weir, Cool Shade

“Fear can keep us from living our lives the way they should be lived,” Eddie said. “Don’t ever let somebody else live your life.” He”
― Theresa Weir, Cool Shade

“It was that feeling of not being able to quite capture it, not being able to commit the moment, the feeling, to memory because it was too fleeting. She”
― Theresa Weir, Cool Shade

“I don’t want pills. I don’t want an artificial existence.” But”
― Theresa Weir, Cool Shade

“the differences that had once been complements were now the very things that made them incompatible. Until”
― Theresa Weir, Cool Shade

“I want the soul stuff, the melding of the mind stuff.”
― Theresa Weir, Cool Shade

“All his life he’d viewed the world from a skewed perspective. And now he’d finally met someone who was seeing the same world he was seeing. That was a good feeling. Talking”
― Theresa Weir, Cool Shade

“She didn’t leave an imprint, not as much as a single impression behind. She”
― Theresa Weir, Cool Shade

“Was her guardian angel taking the day off? Had he quit the job completely?”
― Theresa Weir, Cool Shade

“I’d rather be a fool than a vulture feeding off other people.”
― Theresa Weir, Cool Shade

“We can cherish the quiet moments. We can live day to day.” Enid”
― Theresa Weir, Cool Shade

“Enid thought everybody was like her, they just didn’t know it yet. And that someday they would come around, realizing what fools they’d always been by clinging to ideals that got them nowhere. Enid”
― Theresa Weir, Cool Shade

“Time. I’m afraid of time.” She had never cared for nostalgia. There was a sadness to looking back, a reminder of time wasted. “Things happen too fast, without enough time to relish them or cherish them, or enjoy them as thoroughly as we should.”
― Theresa Weir, Cool Shade

“I’m afraid of the emptiness in my life. I’m afraid I’ve built you into something you’re not.”
― Theresa Weir, Cool Shade

“Pop-Tarts would be nice. Pop-Tarts and Tang.”
― Theresa Weir, Cool Shade

“It’s hard when something you love turns into something you hate.”
― Theresa Weir, Cool Shade

“At the same time, she couldn’t help but feel sad about his admission of a studied shallowness, a penchant for the one-dimensional. It made her long all the more for her midnight man. Eddie”
― Theresa Weir, Cool Shade

“Is that the way you get through life? By not thinking?” she asked. “Works for me.” She couldn’t imagine living like that. Just existing. For her, life was analyzing things. Life was reactions. And emotions. She”
― Theresa Weir, Cool Shade

“I can’t explain it. It’s so, I don’t know. Fleeting. Ephemeral.” “You’re analyzing sex?” He sounded amused. “Why not?” “Women analyze to death. Sometimes it’s better not to think about things too deeply.” She”
― Theresa Weir, Cool Shade

“She didn’t know how, but she understood that he needed to keep people at a distance, that he didn’t want to know them, or see them, not really see them. Somewhere along the line, he’d been hurt. Deeply. And he was going to make sure it didn’t happen again.”
― Theresa Weir, Cool Shade

“After a while, you find yourself waiting for that wrong note, you want to hear that wrong note, that subtle variance in pitch. People aren’t machines. They make mistakes. They hit wrong notes.”
― Theresa Weir, Cool Shade

“Like most males, he could keep up the aloof act for only so long. Exhausted,”
― Theresa Weir, Cool Shade

“In the middle of the kitchen table was an empty birdcage, the metal door ajar. A feeling of deep melancholy washed over her, the empty cage somehow seeming symbolic of Eddie Berlin’s life. ~0~”
― Theresa Weir, Cool Shade

“Next time a rattlesnake bites you, or you crack a rib, or find some whore with a sliced-up arm, don’t call me. Call somebody who doesn’t care.” ~0~”
― Theresa Weir, Cool Shade

“You may not know it, but then again, maybe you do, but your sister is a prostitute.” “And that makes a difference?” He looked at her in a speculative way, as if he wondered what she did for a living. “My sister is a person. She deserves the same attention you would give anybody.”
― Theresa Weir, Cool Shade

“For the first time in years, she felt a sense of belonging, of amazing lightness. She”
― Theresa Weir, Cool Shade

“And this time the house didn’t look ramshackle, it looked charming. It no longer looked abandoned and run-down; it looked more a product of carefully cultivated neglect. The”
― Theresa Weir, Cool Shade

“Her brain issued the command. Her feet, miraculously, obeyed. She tore down the steps. In her blind panic, she snagged the toe of her sneaker on a clump of tangled vines.”
― Theresa Weir, Cool Shade

“Through the screen was a carved oak door, a door that, barring a tornado or fire, would outlast the house.”
― Theresa Weir, Cool Shade

“The air was heavy and still, smelling sweet, like clover, and pungent, like the catnip that made Hemingway go nuts.”
― Theresa Weir, Cool Shade