“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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“At the Unitarian Universalist Christmas pageant in Cambridge, Massachusetts, it didn't matter that Mary insisted on keeping her nails painted black or that Joseph had come out of the closet. On December 25 at seven and nine p.m., three wise women would follow the men down the aisle -- one wearing a kimono and another, African garb; instead of myrrh they would bring chicken soup, instead of frankincense they'd play lullabies. The shepherds had a line on protecting the environment and the innkeeper held a foreclosure sign. No one quite believed in God and no one quite didn't -- so they made it about the songs and the candles and the pressing together of bodies on lacquered wooden pews.”
― Marina Keegan, quote from The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
“The fourth cat stepped forward; Yellowfang didn’t know his name. He was a skinny gray tom, and he studied Brokentail carefully before he spoke. “I give you a life for truth. Without it, kin is set against kin, Clan against Clan. Hold fast to truth in all your dealings and let it guide your words.”
― Erin Hunter, quote from Yellowfang's Secret
“You can never stay angry too long in the bush though. At least, that's what I think. It's not that it's soothing or restful, because it's not. What it does for me is get inside my body, inside my blood, and take me over. I don't know that I can describe it any better than that. It takes me over and I become part of it and it becomes part of me and I'm not very important, or at least no more important than a tree or a rock or a spider abseiling down a long thread of cobweb. As I wandered around, on that hot afternoon, I didn't notice anything too amazing or beautiful or mindbogglingly spectacular. I can't actually remember noticing anything out of the ordinary: just the grey-green rocks and the olive-green leaves and the reddish soil with its teeming ants. The tattered ribbons of paperbark, the crackly dry cicada shell, the smooth furrow left in the dust by a passing snake. That's all there ever is really, most of the time. No rainforest with tropical butterflies, no palm trees or Californian redwoods, no leopards or iguanas or panda bears.
Just the bush.”
― John Marsden, quote from Darkness, Be My Friend
“We were invincible because we were eighteen and stupid.”
― John Grisham, quote from Bleachers
“Giving anyone anything takes courage, since so many presents backfire. A gift conspicuously at odds with your tastes serves only to betray that the benefactor has no earthly clue who you are.”
― Lionel Shriver, quote from The Post-Birthday World
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