“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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“The "war" is being fought along the line between sin and righteousness in every family. It is being fought along the line between truth and falsehood in every school... Between justice and injustice in every legislature... Between integrity and corruption in every office... Between love and hate in every ethnic group... Between pride and humility in every sport... Between the beautiful and the ugly in every art... Between right doctrine and wrong doctrine in every church... Between sloth and diligence between coffee breaks. It is not a waste to fight the battle for truth and faith and love on any of these fronts.”
― John Piper, quote from Don't Waste Your Life
“If I had a reader and he had read all I have written so far of my adventures, there would be certainly no need to inform him that I am not created for any sort of society. The trouble is I don't know how to behave in company. If I go anywhere among a great many people I always have a feeling as though I were being electrified by so many eyes looking at me. It positively makes me shrivel up, physically shrivel up, even in such places as the theatre, to say nothing of private houses. I did not know how to behave with dignity in these gambling saloons and assemblies; I either was still, inwardly upbraiding myself for my excessive mildness and politeness, or I suddenly got up and did something rude. And meanwhile all sorts of worthless fellows far inferior to me knew how to behave with wonderful aplomb-- and that's what really exasperated me above everything, so that I lost my self-possession more and more. I may say frankly, even at that time, if the truth is to be told, the society there, and even winning money at cards, had become revolting and a torture to me. Positively a torture. I did, of course, derive acute enjoyment from it, but this enjoyment was at the cost of torture.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, quote from The Adolescent
“Make wise choices with your life because the rest of the world certainly isn't going to do it for you.”
― Jessica Brody, quote from My Life Undecided
“Humanity seemed to have a singular ability to find destructive uses for any constructive technology. Invent the computer, and you could be certain someone would invent computer viruses and other ways to attack it. Invent the Internet, an unimaginable treasure trove of information, and you could bet it would be used as a recruiting tool for hate mongers and instantly turned into a venue for child pornographers, sexual predators, and scam artists. Humanity never failed to find a way to become its own worst enemy. “I”
― Douglas E. Richards, quote from Wired
“Man's desires are limited by his perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceiv'd.”
― William Blake, quote from The Complete Illuminated Books
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