“I think the truth is that we are in love with the fantasy of being that one person who could inspire, arouse, or affect someone who is so untouchable to the rest of the world. It makes us feel special; like we’re the diamond in the rough, the one in a million, the one that everyone else couldn’t be, and do what everyone else couldn’t do. Imagine being that significant to someone? To never have to doubt that he loves you, or needs you, or more importantly, wants you more than any other.”
― Christine Zolendz, quote from Brutally Beautiful
“I’m falling in love with you … and I’m going to let you destroy me.”
― Christine Zolendz, quote from Brutally Beautiful
“Why? What’s your problem?” he asked, like this would be a surprise to him.
“What’s my problem? You’re acting like a bitch, and if I wanted a bitch, I would have adopted a dog.” I walked away from him as he mumbled something about writer’s block and stupid green eyes.”
― Christine Zolendz, quote from Brutally Beautiful
“You’re adorable when you’re angry,” he whispered, breathing heavily.
“Oh, really? Then get the hell off me, because I’m about to get gorgeous all over your ass.”
― Christine Zolendz, quote from Brutally Beautiful
“Kade caught the condom with a quick flick of his hand. Yeah, great reflexes for a drunk, right? He arched his eyebrows up at me.
“It’s a condom, Kade, because if you’re going to act like a dick, you might as well dress like one,” I explained, smiling so wide my cheeks actually hurt.”
― Christine Zolendz, quote from Brutally Beautiful
“Because Lainey, you somehow soothe the chaos that’s inside me. You heal me.”
― Christine Zolendz, quote from Brutally Beautiful
“This…this is just a morbid filled ice cream cone dipped in psycho flavored sprinkles.”
― Christine Zolendz, quote from Brutally Beautiful
“Everything that happened…to me…is stained here,” I whispered, touching my hand to my heart. “It will forever be in my heart, but what I want … is to move it over a little so I can fit you in there too.”
― Christine Zolendz, quote from Brutally Beautiful
“Kade: “Fuck. Are your eyes green?”
Lainey: “Yes. Scandalous isn’t it? Maybe I should poke them out for you and insert a color of your choice? Are you against all green-eyed waitresses taking your orders, or am I the only lucky one?”
― Christine Zolendz, quote from Brutally Beautiful
“It’s a condom, Kade, because if you’re going to act like a dick, you might as well dress like one,”
― Christine Zolendz, quote from Brutally Beautiful
“Suddenly, I developed an acute case of Tourette’s syndrome, “Fuck! That fucking-shit-son-of-an-ass-monkey-dick-weasel!”
― Christine Zolendz, quote from Brutally Beautiful
“No matter how badly it was going to hurt, I didn’t want to be anywhere but with Lainey. Let her crush me. Let her destroy me. There wasn’t much good left of me, but I wanted her to take every last bit.”
― Christine Zolendz, quote from Brutally Beautiful
“There, I said it. We’re all adults here, right? I mean, I shouldn’t be ashamed. I’ve already told you my panties were wet, so my dignity was out the window.”
― Christine Zolendz, quote from Brutally Beautiful
“So, Francine seems sweet.” -Kade
“I wouldn’t know, Mr. Grayson. I haven’t tasted him yet. However, if I do get the pleasure of that, I will let you know how sweet it is.” -Lainey”
― Christine Zolendz, quote from Brutally Beautiful
“She’s so different. She doesn’t have to get naked to get a man’s attention. She just has to walk in a room, glide in with her watery movements, and when she speaks, it’s of substance. You fucking want, no…you need to listen. She’s profound. It’s ruthless on my soul. She is a woman who still blushes when a man looks at her. She’s not a child, you know she’s lived some sort of difficult life and the mystery of her is breaking me. I want her to crack and break in my hands. I want to open her up and gut her.”
― Christine Zolendz, quote from Brutally Beautiful
“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire. Aristotle”
― Christine Zolendz, quote from Brutally Beautiful
“This bitch was giving me writer’s block.”
-Kade”
― Christine Zolendz, quote from Brutally Beautiful
“If I’m not good enough because I’m a waitress, don't settle for me, don't sink down to my level. You don't deserve anything I have to offer. Let that shit hurt for a hot minute, simmer in it then leave me the fuck alone.”
― Christine Zolendz, quote from Brutally Beautiful
“Coitus Interruptus!” I screamed. “Stop and put your hands where I can see them.”
― Christine Zolendz, quote from Brutally Beautiful
“I’m not surprised, nor could I bring myself to give any fucks about the situation. Seriously, my fucks had been all used up already.”
― Christine Zolendz, quote from Brutally Beautiful
“I want you to introduce me to all of them, because I think I finally found someone whose demons would play nice with my own.”
― Christine Zolendz, quote from Brutally Beautiful
“Everything that happened…to me…is stained here,” I whispered, touching my hand to my heart. “It will forever be in my heart, but what I want, Sam, is to move it over a little so I can fit you in there too.”
― Christine Zolendz, quote from Brutally Beautiful
“It's a condom, Kade, because if you're going to act like a dick, you might as well dress like one.”
― Christine Zolendz, quote from Brutally Beautiful
“Those green irises were like gentle pools of brilliant meadows of sage and green-envy coneflowers swaying in a warm breeze.
HOLY fuck. What the hell sort of poetry was that dribbling out of my twisted brain?”
― Christine Zolendz, quote from Brutally Beautiful
“I appreciate your invitation, but I believe that every time that Fran of yours speaks to me, he’s actively trying to annihilate every last one of my brain cells.”
― Christine Zolendz, quote from Brutally Beautiful
“Yeah, I was going to follow her. Staying away from her was not an option. I would have to staple myself to the damn seat to stop myself from running after her. Tearing out of the lot, I trailed them for a few miles, hiding myself behind a few other cars. Fran dropped her off at a grocery store. Psycho me followed her in.”
― Christine Zolendz, quote from Brutally Beautiful
“Mr. Grayson, your charm is showing. You might want to tuck it back in,” she said, standing up. ”
― Christine Zolendz, quote from Brutally Beautiful
“You’re adorable when you’re angry,” he whispered, breathing heavily. “Oh, really? Then get the hell off me, because I’m about to get gorgeous all over your ass.”
― Christine Zolendz, quote from Brutally Beautiful
“Lainey, just dip it in the sauce. This sauce is delicious. You have to try it. Dip it in the sauce. Just dip it in the sauce," he pushed.”
― Christine Zolendz, quote from Brutally Beautiful
“It felt…it felt like I had never had sex before. Yeah, yeah, I know how damn crazy that sounds, but…it was the first time the flesh beneath me came with heat, and scent. It was the first time I noticed the taste of someone, the touch that only she gave; the tingle that only her breath could cause on the surface of my skin.”
― Christine Zolendz, quote from Brutally Beautiful
Christine Zolendz
Born place: in New York, The United States
Born date December 27, 2018
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“The household was pervaded by this atmosphere of a calm adult woman and a man who gave into animal impulses. She reported to him in great detail what her analyst ... said about his binges and his hostility; she used Charley's money to pay Dr. Andrews to catalog his abnormalities. And of course Charley never heard anything directly from the doctor; he had no way of keeping her from reporting what served her and holding back what did not. The doctor, too, had no way of getting to the truth of what she told him; no doubt she only gave him the facts that suited her picture, so that the doctor's picture of Charley was based on what she wanted him to know. By the time she had edited both going and coming there was little of it outside her control.”
― Philip K. Dick, quote from Confessions of a Crap Artist
“I am fully conscious that, not being a literary man , certain presumptuous persons will think that they may reasonably blame me; alleging that I am not a man of letters. Foolish folks! do they not know that I might retort as Marius did to the Roman Patricians by saying: That they, who deck themselves out in the labours of others will not allow me my own. They will say that I, having no literary skill, cannot properly express that which I desire to treat of, but they do not know that my subjects are to be dealt with by experience rather than by words; and experience has been the mistress of those who wrote well. And so, as mistress, I will cite her in all cases.”
― Leonardo da Vinci, quote from Leonardo's Notebooks
“Needs? I guess that is what bothers so many folks. They keep expanding their needs until they are dependent on too many things and too many other people... I wonder how many things in the average American home could be eliminated if the question were asked, "Must I really have this?" I guess most of the extras are chalked up to comfort or saving time.
Funny thing about comfort - one man's comfort is another man's misery. Most people do't work hard enough physically anymore, and comfort is not easy to find. It is surprising how comfortable a hard bunk can be after you come down off a mountain.”
― quote from One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey
“B-but, Mr Jimson, I w-want to be an artist.'
'Of course you do,' I said, 'everybody does once. But they get over it, thank God, like the measles and the chickenpox. Go home and go to bed and take some hot lemonade and put on three blankets and sweat it out.'
'But Mr J-Jimson, there must be artists.'
'Yes, and lunatics and lepers, but why go and live in an asylum before you're sent for? If you find life a bit dull at home,' I said, 'and want to amuse yourself, put a stick of dynamite in the kitchen fire, or shoot a policeman. Volunteer for a test pilot, or dive off Tower Bridge with five bob's worth of roman candles in each pocket. You'd get twice the fun at about one-tenth of the risk.”
― Joyce Cary, quote from The Horse's Mouth
“I noticed you made a bee-line for their bookcases." It is the oldest and most incorrigible trait of the book-lover.”
― Paul Collins, quote from Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Books
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