Idle Hands Quotes

“I'm here for the rollercoaster, baby, for the lights and the colors and the screams.”
― Cassondra Windwalker, Idle Hands

“I’m the devil, remember? I was never going to spin this into a happy ending for you. You can only make that yourself.”
― Cassondra Windwalker, Idle Hands: The devil is in the details in the haunting novel about the choices we make

“I’m not the teacher. I’m the test. I have nothing to teach you. No judgement to hand down.”
― Cassondra Windwalker, Idle Hands: The devil is in the details in the haunting novel about the choices we make

“Read all the existential poetry you want, but invite pleasure under the sheets.”
― Cassondra Windwalker, Idle Hands: The devil is in the details in the haunting novel about the choices we make

“Learned shame and guilt are far more powerful weapons than fists.”
― Cassondra Windwalker, Idle Hands: The devil is in the details in the haunting novel about the choices we make

“And that’s the kicker, of course — every now and then, reality actually does pivot on a single choice.”
― Cassondra Windwalker, Idle Hands: The devil is in the details in the haunting novel about the choices we make

“It’s baffling to me, when your hours are already so short, that you discard as many as you do in the trash-heap of what isn’t.”
― Cassondra Windwalker, Idle Hands: The devil is in the details in the haunting novel about the choices we make

“In death, there is only death.”
― Cassondra Windwalker, Idle Hands: The devil is in the details in the haunting novel about the choices we make

“Death is an angel. Death is definitely going to be there,”
― Cassondra Windwalker, Idle Hands: The devil is in the details in the haunting novel about the choices we make

“he stayed up late to watch the stars travel their invisible roads.”
― Cassondra Windwalker, Idle Hands: The devil is in the details in the haunting novel about the choices we make

“but that’s because most of you have such a twisted sense of good and evil.”
― Cassondra Windwalker, Idle Hands: The devil is in the details in the haunting novel about the choices we make

“Sometimes the shortcut to vice is through virtue.”
― Cassondra Windwalker, Idle Hands: The devil is in the details in the haunting novel about the choices we make

“what she had never told them in words but had demonstrated every day she stayed: that abuse was the fault of the victim, that fear and pain were the price of being flawed.”
― Cassondra Windwalker, Idle Hands: The devil is in the details in the haunting novel about the choices we make

“The beauties of this world are already so terribly brief, and you shorten them even more with your incessant dissatisfaction.”
― Cassondra Windwalker, Idle Hands: The devil is in the details in the haunting novel about the choices we make

“And leaving meant the end of the fairy tales and lies children inevitably spin to make sense of their own horrors:”
― Cassondra Windwalker, Idle Hands: The devil is in the details in the haunting novel about the choices we make

“one of the prevailing misconceptions of humanity is the all-consuming importance of every decision you make.”
― Cassondra Windwalker, Idle Hands: The devil is in the details in the haunting novel about the choices we make

“The Creator set you up with this notion that on some level, your life is about relationships. You gauge your own worth by how good a mother, a friend, a daughter, a worker you are. I offer a different perspective. I want to know you for your own sake.”
― Cassondra Windwalker, Idle Hands: The devil is in the details in the haunting novel about the choices we make

“I’m here to remind you who you are, not who you could be.”
― Cassondra Windwalker, Idle Hands: The devil is in the details in the haunting novel about the choices we make

“If you want to assign dubious motives to anyone, you should start with the Creator who set this game in motion in the first place, who trapped your strange little wandering souls in flesh-cages and then demanded you look away”
― Cassondra Windwalker, Idle Hands: The devil is in the details in the haunting novel about the choices we make

“I’m the choice some of you find so necessary to the concept of free will; what others of you deny even exists in favour of behavioural predestination. I think the least imaginative name I’ve heard is “the devil”, but I’ll answer to it if I must.”
― Cassondra Windwalker, Idle Hands: The devil is in the details in the haunting novel about the choices we make

“I’m not your adversary, specifically. That’s just the part I play.”
― Cassondra Windwalker, Idle Hands: The devil is in the details in the haunting novel about the choices we make

“Just to live, for a second, would be worth any death.”
― Cassondra Windwalker, Idle Hands

“Children read books for the opposite reason as adults do: they're hunting for hidden truths, while adults are searching for palatable lies.”
― Cassondra Windwalker, Idle Hands

“Perdie looked down at her hands as if a better answer waited there. "That's true. Life hasn't been fair to these kids, and neither have I.”
― Cassondra Windwalker, Idle Hands

“Perdie had picked up more than a handful of unhealthy habits born out of her experiences as a battered wife, and she'd unconsciously attempted to sabotage her new marriage more than once or twice.”
― Cassondra Windwalker, Idle Hands

“It was her fault she'd stayed so long that they'd grown inured to terror the only way they knew how: by sympathising with the aggressor”
― Cassondra Windwalker, Idle Hands

“Perdie knew it wasn't healthy to find reassurance in the fully deliberate nature of her husband's cruelty; but then, she'd given up on healthy a long time ago”
― Cassondra Windwalker, Idle Hands

“Losing face was a possibility no narcissist could permit”
― Cassondra Windwalker, Idle Hands