“She was like the moon—part of her was always hidden away.”
― Dia Reeves, quote from Bleeding Violet
“They can't even decide what flavor of crazy I am.”
― Dia Reeves, quote from Bleeding Violet
“What the eyes don't see, the heart can't feel.”
― Dia Reeves, quote from Bleeding Violet
“Love is a trap. Don't ever get caught.”
― Dia Reeves, quote from Bleeding Violet
“The rain echoed in the shadowy attic space and made me feel small and fragile, like a lace glove left behind on moving day - mateless and abandoned.”
― Dia Reeves, quote from Bleeding Violet
“Emotional abuse is just as bad as physical abuse. Worse! You can heal broken bones; you can't heal a broken mind.”
― Dia Reeves, quote from Bleeding Violet
“It disturbed me that he saw things in such black-and-white tones. I sure didn't. For me, the world was a confusion of color.”
― Dia Reeves, quote from Bleeding Violet
“I don't even register on the freakometer.”
― Dia Reeves, quote from Bleeding Violet
“How did you get out of the suicide door?" Her disbelief was a living, pettable thing.
"Magic."
Her eyes narrowed. "There is no magic."
"Maybe not for you. But I'm from out of town.”
― Dia Reeves, quote from Bleeding Violet
“Indecisiveness is a very unattractive trait in a man, especially when he's just a boy.”
― Dia Reeves, quote from Bleeding Violet
“If I can't, then I'll paint the walls of her house red with my blood.”
― Dia Reeves, quote from Bleeding Violet
“You ain't scared I'll kill you?
You already did. At the dark park. The suspense is gone.”
― Dia Reeves, quote from Bleeding Violet
“You need air. You need food. You don't need some beastly boy.”
― Dia Reeves, quote from Bleeding Violet
“I figured she wanted to get into it with me, some he's-my-man-so-step-off song and dance. If so, she would have to dance solo.
I don't do drama.”
― Dia Reeves, quote from Bleeding Violet
“It's easier to be careful in dresses. You have to be or you end up flashing your underclothes or destroying beautiful fabric. Dresses force you to be on guard.”
― Dia Reeves, quote from Bleeding Violet
“Wanting to connect doesn't make you needy--it makes you human.”
― Dia Reeves, quote from Bleeding Violet
“Mother is the name for God on the lips and hearts of children.”
― Dia Reeves, quote from Bleeding Violet
“He looked as shocked as if I'd asked him to masturbate in front of me.”
― Dia Reeves, quote from Bleeding Violet
“I kissed him, and even though it hurt my mouth, I didn't mind; Wyatt's kisses were worth suffering over.”
― Dia Reeves, quote from Bleeding Violet
“Paulie looked thoughtful. 'Well don't use Elmer's glue,' he warned. 'it sure didn't work on the Blackberry.”
― Dia Reeves, quote from Bleeding Violet
“Holding on to a four-year-old boy wasn't weird, as it should have been. It was comforting. Like holding an incredibly sticky teddy bear.”
― Dia Reeves, quote from Bleeding Violet
“She tucked a five-dollar bill into my dress strap—like I was a stripper!”
― Dia Reeves, quote from Bleeding Violet
“I had the craziest idea that if I looked closely enough, maybe tilted his head toward the light, I'd be able to see into his brain.”
― Dia Reeves, quote from Bleeding Violet
“The rain hung from his earlobes like delicate jewelry.”
― Dia Reeves, quote from Bleeding Violet
“Trust. Affection. Respect." I shoved her tainted after-school snack across the table. "It must be hard to think of qualities you don't possess.”
― Dia Reeves, quote from Bleeding Violet
“If you were left alone, you'd hate it. Loneliness gets old in a hurry”
― Dia Reeves, quote from Bleeding Violet
“Even if you were Hannibal Lecter himself, around here you're nothing special.”
― Dia Reeves, quote from Bleeding Violet
“When you had no one to vent to, everything stayed inside and festered like old meat in a hot fridge.”
― Dia Reeves, quote from Bleeding Violet
“Standing in fron of the doors of a cCatholic church when service is over is a good way to die young.”
― Dia Reeves, quote from Bleeding Violet
“Love can be a dangerous thing...”
― Dia Reeves, quote from Bleeding Violet
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“That's kind of what trust is, isn't it? A willful self-delusion.”
― Brandon Sanderson, quote from Mistborn
“It was during that journey to Via Orazio that I began to be made unhappy by my own alienness. I had grown up with those boys, I considered their behavior normal, their violent language was mine. But for six years now I had also been following daily a path that they were completely ignorant of and in the end I had confronted it brilliantly. With them I couldn’t use any of what I learned every day, I had to suppress myself, in some way diminish myself. What I was in school I was there obliged to put aside or use treacherously, to intimidate them. I asked myself what I was doing in that car. They were my friends, of course, my boyfriend was there, we were going to Lila’s wedding celebration. But that very celebration confirmed that Lila, the only person I still felt was essential even though our lives had diverged, no longer belonged to us and, without her, every intermediary between me and those youths, that car racing through the streets, was gone. Why then wasn’t I with Alfonso, with whom I shared both origin and flight? Why, above all, hadn’t I stopped to say to Nino, Stay, come to the reception, tell me when the magazine with my article’s coming out, let’s talk, let’s dig ourselves a cave that can protect us from Pasquale’s driving, from his vulgarity, from the violent tones of Carmela and Enzo, and also—yes, also—of Antonio?”
― quote from My Brilliant Friend
“Every special group around the country tries to get its hands on whatever bits and pieces it can. The result is that there is hardly an issue on which government is not on both sides. For example, in one massive building in Washington some government employees are working full-time trying to devise and implement plans to spend our money to discourage us from smoking cigarettes. In another massive building, perhaps miles away from the first, other employees, equally dedicated, equally hard-working, are working full-time spending our money to subsidize farmers to grow tobacco.”
― Milton Friedman, quote from Free to Choose: A Personal Statement
“The road will never swallow you. The river of destiny will always overcome evil. May you understand your fate. Suffering will never destroy you, but will make you stronger. Success will never confuse you of scatter your spirit, but will make you fly higher into the good sunlight. Your life will always surprise you.”
― Ben Okri, quote from The Famished Road
“All their lives they’ve said how Folks that don’t Work should Starve. Now they can’t work but they ain’t ready for what they been wishing on the shiftless of all races.”
― Allan Gurganus, quote from Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
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