“Gabriel.
This has to be his fault, somehow. I'm going to track him down, pluck out his angel feathers, and stuff a pillow with them.”
― Lisa Desrochers, quote from Personal Demons
“Sii la mia schiava d’amore,” I purr.
Her expression is guarded. “What did you say?”
An amused smile pulls at my lips. “I’ll never tell.” Somehow, I don’t think she’d agree to be my love slave anyway.”
― Lisa Desrochers, quote from Personal Demons
“I walk up right behind Frannie, where she’s sitting near the door, in time to hear her say, “You know what, Tay? Go to Hell,” and I smile, because I think it’s cute that she’s inviting her friends along.”
― Lisa Desrochers, quote from Personal Demons
“But his eyes say what he can’t. I see it, clear as day, even if she doesn’t. He’d give up his wings for her. All she’d have to do is ask.”
― Lisa Desrochers, quote from Personal Demons
“I'm literally too hot to handle.”
― Lisa Desrochers, quote from Personal Demons
“We could work on our English outline," I say and almost can't contain the chuckle.
"Really? That's your idea of a hot date?"
"I'm sorry, I wasn't aware we were on a 'hot date'" And this time I can't contain the chuckle when she cringes. "So, how hot would you like it? I'm capable of all levels of hotness, from Luc-warm to - and I'm being literal here - hotter than Hell.”
― Lisa Desrochers, quote from Personal Demons
“If there's a Hell on Earth, it's high school.”
― Lisa Desrochers, quote from Personal Demons
“I'm a demon, not a pig, so I keep the place relatively neat.”
― Lisa Desrochers, quote from Personal Demons
“I don't believe in love at all, really. But lust ... is alive and well.”
― Lisa Desrochers, quote from Personal Demons
“She’s fiery for sure. I like a little fire. Makes me feel at home.”
― Lisa Desrochers, quote from Personal Demons
“Oh, for the sin of Satan.”
― Lisa Desrochers, quote from Personal Demons
“There’s no crying in baseball and no love in Hell. It’s just the rules. You could say it’s against our religion, more or less.”
― Lisa Desrochers, quote from Personal Demons
“You speak Italian," she says, unconvinced.
"Si."
"Say something."
"Sii la mia schiava d'amore," I purr.
Her expression is guarded. "What did you say?"
An amuse smile pulls at my lips. "I'll never tell." Somehow I don't think she'd agree to be my love slave anyway.”
― Lisa Desrochers, quote from Personal Demons
“And I start to say that I’m not lying now, but I am, so that would be a lie.”
― Lisa Desrochers, quote from Personal Demons
“I try to pretend his shoulder touching mine isn’t causing totally unrelated parts of me to tingle.”
― Lisa Desrochers, quote from Personal Demons
“But I can't see how anybody who drives a '68 Shelby could be all bad.”
― Lisa Desrochers, quote from Personal Demons
“What is it?”
“Well, how it works is you take the box out of my hand and open it,” I say with a grin.”
― Lisa Desrochers, quote from Personal Demons
“Tell me what to do to change your mind.”
― Lisa Desrochers, quote from Personal Demons
“Whoa! I knew you were hot, but Jesus!’ she says, and I wonder why she things He has anything to do with it.”
― Lisa Desrochers, quote from Personal Demons
“She gets to the bottom of the stairs, and I lift her off the ground and kiss her. As I lower her back to her feet she says, ‘Mmm, nice. That’s gonna score you some points with the parents.’ I look into the stands and see her parents standing there, slack-jawed, Dad with a camera perched, forgotten, in his hand. And Grandpa is laughing. ‘So what’s the plan?’ ‘I’m working on it. But I’m pretty sure it doesn’t include molesting me in front of them.”
― Lisa Desrochers, quote from Personal Demons
“There’s no crying in baseball and no love in Hell. It’s just the rules.”
― Lisa Desrochers, quote from Personal Demons
“I elbow him. “You’re such a pig.”
He grins. “I’m not a pig, I’m a guy—which, now that I think about it, is pretty much the same thing. Point taken.”
― Lisa Desrochers, quote from Personal Demons
“I know exactly what to do with him. I've been practicing in my dreams.”
― Lisa Desrochers, quote from Personal Demons
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“the function all expressions of contempt have in common is the defense against unwanted feelings. Contempt simply evaporates, having lost its point, when it is no longer useful as a shield—against the child’s shame over his desperate, unreturned love; against his feeling of inadequacy; or above all against his rage that his parents were not available. Once we are able to feel and understand the repressed emotions of childhood, we will no longer need contempt as a defense against them. On the other hand, as long as we despise the other person and over-value our own achievements (“he can’t do what I can do”), we do not have to mourn the fact that love is not forthcoming without achievement. Nevertheless, if we avoid this mourning it means that we remain at bottom the one who is despised, for we have to despise everything in ourselves that is not wonderful, good, and clever. Thus we perpetuate the loneliness of childhood: We despise weakness, helplessness, uncertainty—in short, the child in ourselves and in others. The contempt for others in grandiose, successful people always includes disrespect for their own true selves, as their scorn implies: “Without these superior qualities of mine, a person is completely worthless.” This means further: “Without these achievements, these gifts, I could never be loved, would never have been loved.” Grandiosity in the adult guarantees that the illusion continues: “I was loved.”
― Alice Miller, quote from The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self
“Everything was really a story, penned or thought or acted out at some time by someone.”
― Ted Dekker, quote from Showdown
“We live at a very special time . . . the only time when we can observationally verify that we live at a very special time!”
― Lawrence M. Krauss, quote from A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing
“Does madness bring creativity? Or does creativity cause madness? Can an artist create without the ups so high and the downs so low?”
― Megan Hart, quote from Broken
“And Lexi had to deal with that fact. She had to deal with knowing that he hadn't chosen her. He didn't want her.”
― K.A. Linde, quote from Avoiding Commitment
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