This Poison Heart Quotes

“Whenever you hear a story about villainous women, you should ask who’s telling the story. Medea’s tale has been told and retold a dozen times, but always by men who seem to revel in her heinous actions without addressing what caused it. Sometimes her story is used to showcase women as crazy, unpredictable, or vindictive.”
― Kalynn Bayron, This Poison Heart

“imagine plants are kind of like people. Tell a person they’re worthless, hurt their feelings everyday—they’d wither, too.”
― Kalynn Bayron, This Poison Heart

“The people we love are never really gone from us,” Mom said. “Try to remember that. I know it’s hard. It feels like the whole world should just stop spinnin’, but it doesn’t. And we’ve gotta find a way to pick up the pieces.”
― Kalynn Bayron, This Poison Heart

“I don’t discriminate when it comes to good books. I’ll read anything”
― Kalynn Bayron, This Poison Heart

“You fixin’ somethin’ for somebody you love, for healin’. Gotta do it with your bare hands and your whole heart. Understand?”
― Kalynn Bayron, This Poison Heart

“What it sounds like doesn’t make a difference to me. This isn’t just something in your blood. It’s you. It’s who you are. How could I doubt what you’re telling us when I’ve seen what you can do?”
― Kalynn Bayron, This Poison Heart

“Can’t be done no other way. You fixin’ somethin’ for somebody you love, for this healin’. Gotta do it with your bare hands and your whole heart. Understand?”
― Kalynn Bayron, This Poison Heart

“Nope. That kid is a whole demon. He told his grandma to shut up the other day and nobody said anything. He’s mad disrespectful. My grandma would’ve snatched my soul right out my body.”
― Kalynn Bayron, This Poison Heart

“That’s where we keep the bodies,” Lou said, following my gaze. “Don’t worry. They stay dead.”
― Kalynn Bayron, This Poison Heart

“...imagine telling someone they’re beautiful, magnetic, stunning. Every single day. Imagine how they’d flourish.”
― Kalynn Bayron, This Poison Heart

“I have so much to tell you,’" she said.”
― Kalynn Bayron, This Poison Heart

“Two hours and one full Beyoncé Homecoming routine later, my hair was detangled, conditioned, twisted, and sitting under a plastic cap.”
― Kalynn Bayron, This Poison Heart

“I imagine plants are kind of like people. Tell a person they’re worthless, hurt their feelings everyday—they’d wither, too.”
― Kalynn Bayron, This Poison Heart

“Whenever you hear a story about villainous women, you should ask who’s telling the story. Medea’s tale has been told and retold a dozen times, but always by men who seem to revel in her heinous actions without addressing what caused it.”
― Kalynn Bayron, This Poison Heart

“imagine plants are kind of like people. Tell a person they’re worthless, hurt their feelings everyday—they’d wither, too.” She let her delicate fingers dance over the surface of the counter, then up to her lips. Her eyes were like the centers of Velvet Queen sunflowers, brown and blazing. She held my gaze. “But imagine telling someone they’re beautiful, magnetic, stunning. Every single day. Imagine how they’d flourish.”
― Kalynn Bayron, This Poison Heart

“wanted to know what it would be like to be myself, fully, right from the jump. No secrets, no hiding.”
― Kalynn Bayron, This Poison Heart

“A few days later, we waited anxiously in the living room for the estate attorney, Mrs. Redmond, to come by. As we sat on the couch, my bedroom door creaked open and a tangle of vines crept across the floor. I jumped up and shoved them back inside, closing the door”
― Kalynn Bayron, This Poison Heart

“Trevante Rhodes,”
― Kalynn Bayron, This Poison Heart

“Tacca chantrieri,”
― Kalynn Bayron, This Poison Heart

“Quiet plants might perk up around me, but they didn’t uproot themselves or destroy a fence to get close to me. They didn’t turn obscene shades of their natural colors when I was around.”
― Kalynn Bayron, This Poison Heart

“They like to Netflix and chill, right?”
― Kalynn Bayron, This Poison Heart