Victory at Prescott High Quotes

“I’ve never heard someone say something as inane as “there’s a kettle in the cupboard” and have it sound like “I’m going to fucking murder you.” Impressive, I must say.”
― C.M. Stunich, Victory at Prescott High

“Virginity is an abstract patriarchal social construct that has zero validity and exists for the sole purpose of commoditizing young women but go on, I’ll wait.”
― C.M. Stunich, Victory at Prescott High

“Little by little, a little becomes a lot.” Oscar”
― C.M. Stunich, Victory at Prescott High

“Sometimes, we don’t get everything that we want. Sometimes, there are unknowns and we just have to learn to live with them. Life is messy and weird and fucked-up, but even amongst all those thorns, there are roses.”
― C.M. Stunich, Victory at Prescott High

“Life is messy and weird and fucked-up, but even amongst all those thorns, there are roses.”
― C.M. Stunich, Victory at Prescott High

“His hold on me is endless and eternal; it isn’t unbreakable because the possibility of being broken was never even an option. It just is. A fact. As sure as the moon rises.”
― C.M. Stunich, Victory at Prescott High

“Confucius says dig two graves before embarking on a journey of revenge. I guess he was right. When you go seeking revenge, some small part of you will die a death … someway, somehow. But from the ashes of that, something new will rise, something different, something better.”
― C.M. Stunich, Victory at Prescott High

“The only way to destroy the wealth gap and bring the best, brightest minds to the forefront of society is to equally fund public schools regardless of tax bracket.”
― C.M. Stunich, Victory at Prescott High

“I interrupt here just to insert some of my ‘crazy political views’. “Virginity is an abstract patriarchal social construct that has zero validity and exists for the sole purpose of commoditizing young women but go on, I’ll wait.”
― C.M. Stunich, Victory at Prescott High

“Can’t take credit,” I say with a shrug of one shoulder. “One of Stacey’s girl’s aunts did it for me. Also, we draw heavily on black culture here in Prescott, so I kind of need to acknowledge that, too.”
― C.M. Stunich, Victory at Prescott High

“It’s pure privilege to assume that everybody lives and exists and functions just the way you do. Sometimes, there are economic, cultural, or legal barriers.”
― C.M. Stunich, Victory at Prescott High

“The cramps are next fucking level, but I can deal with it. Because I’m a woman and everyone knows that women are magical goddesses with the pain tolerance of titans.”
― C.M. Stunich, Victory at Prescott High

“Why is it so much to ask, to just give people a living wage? How the fuck is this shit controversial and politically polarizing?”
― C.M. Stunich, Victory at Prescott High

“There are two sides to every story, but usually, only one of them is true. I’ve given you my truth, written my words, told you my tale. It’s up to you to decide what to do it with it. The world is built of stories, crafted of pain, outlined with beauty; every story deserves to be heard. This one, this one is mine. There’s one word you don’t utter at Prescott High, not unless you want them to own you. H.A.V.O.C. Hael, Aaron, Victor, Oscar, Callum. And of course, Bernadette. Cry ‘Havoc’ and set us loose, baby. Blood in, blood out.”
― C.M. Stunich, Victory at Prescott High

“Confucius says dig two graves before embarking on a journey of revenge. I guess he was right.”
― C.M. Stunich, Victory at Prescott High

“That’s how I get my happily ever after, wrapped up in ink and bullshit. Wrapped up in motherfucking Havoc.”
― C.M. Stunich, Victory at Prescott High

“Your brilliance is a jewel in a wasteland of a world,”
― C.M. Stunich, Victory at Prescott High

“Once upon a time, there was a girl who dreamed in prose and pretty phrases. She quickly learned that life is at its best unfair and at its worst perversely cruel. Her dreams became nightmares, nightmares made of monsters new and old. And so she summoned them, her five dark horsemen, to wreak havoc and sow chaos, to twist mayhem and denote anarchy, to declare victory over every wicked, ugly thing she’d ever seen. They came to her, those horsemen, and in return for their vile vengeance, they took her heart and held it in their inked hands. They claimed her flesh with carnal delight, but it was her soul that they craved most of all. And to them, she gave it freely and without restraint.”
― C.M. Stunich, Victory at Prescott High

“How we managed to get here, to this beautiful happy ending, is anybody’s guess. But we did it. We made it. And all I had to do was die to earn it. “Fuck Nantucket.”
― C.M. Stunich, Victory at Prescott High

“You’d be so fucking proud of me, Pen, I think as I spot her ghost standing in the corner, smiling at me and wearing the prettiest pink skirt and the brightest pink lipstick and beaming like the whole world is on fire and burning just for us. There is no end to the things that I can do, that I can accomplish. “I’ve always been proud, Bernadette,” she tells me as I choke on tears and try to hide my reaction from the boys.”
― C.M. Stunich, Victory at Prescott High

“You can raise three little girls even when you’re just barely past the little girl stage yourself. You can fall in love with five beautifully broken boys. You can wreak havoc and make chaos, chase mayhem and incite anarchy, and in the end, you can find your own sort of victory.”
― C.M. Stunich, Victory at Prescott High

“The boys sit with me while I get my tattoo, and then they each get their own (even Aaron who already has Bernadette etched into his flesh). My name, their skin. All of us marked, drawn together with blood and ink and bullshit.”
― C.M. Stunich, Victory at Prescott High

“We are a family, but we’re still broken in some ways. And that’s okay. Nobody expected us to heal into perfect model citizens overnight. Or in five years. Or, like, ever.”
― C.M. Stunich, Victory at Prescott High

“As he always does, Vic smells of amber and musk, he’s big and warm and dominant and annoying and perfect. My soul mate with ebon eyes—one more time, ebon, ebon, ebon—and purple-dark hair and tattoos and a monster dick that belongs to one woman and one woman only.”
― C.M. Stunich, Victory at Prescott High

“She once said, if you aren’t brave enough to risk mistakes, then you aren’t deserving of quiet triumphs.”
― C.M. Stunich, Victory at Prescott High

“Aaron stands up from where he’s sitting as my chest tightens with that overflowing feeling, the one made up of beautiful things and happy dreams and hope. It feels like fireflies drifting through a sweet summer night or bubbles in a champagne bottle waiting to be opened in celebration.”
― C.M. Stunich, Victory at Prescott High

“It isn’t ‘just’ me and the boys. It’s us. We’re an us. A family. They are as intertwined with one another as they are with me.”
― C.M. Stunich, Victory at Prescott High

“I’d call her pansexual but really, she’s more of a pan-slut. Which, obviously, coming from me is a compliment. I don’t slut-shame.”
― C.M. Stunich, Victory at Prescott High

“And so, because there will always be an underground in every neighborhood, in every city, in every country, we hold the reins and guide the dark horse.”
― C.M. Stunich, Victory at Prescott High

“The girls attend Oak River Elementary; the boys and I build an empire; our love blossoms and amplifies and turns the entire world into a dream that I never, ever want to wake up from.”
― C.M. Stunich, Victory at Prescott High