“But what if the monsters come?"
"Fancy." Kit looked away from the drama to stare at her sister, surprised. "We are the monsters.”
― Dia Reeves, quote from Slice of Cherry
“Real monsters eat you from the inside out.”
― Dia Reeves, quote from Slice of Cherry
“People?" As though she'd never heard of such a thing. "They're like dolls. Plastic and shiny and fake.”
― Dia Reeves, quote from Slice of Cherry
“You're like a doll I had when I was a kid. She was all stiched together and her head kept falling off, but I loved that doll. That's what you look like. Like somebody just loved you to death.”
― Dia Reeves, quote from Slice of Cherry
“But what was the point of love if it didn't keep people from leaving you?”
― Dia Reeves, quote from Slice of Cherry
“The worst thing you can do is rest all your hopes on a wish. A granted wish doesn't equal a perfect life.”
― Dia Reeves, quote from Slice of Cherry
“Humans are predators, not prey. Always remember that.”
― Dia Reeves, quote from Slice of Cherry
“I'm the Bonesaw Killer's daughter," she whispered, almost to herself. "Why would you ever think I was good?”
― Dia Reeves, quote from Slice of Cherry
“You're like rottweilers - they protect you from burglars, but nothing protects you from them.”
― Dia Reeves, quote from Slice of Cherry
“Fancy clipped a scrap of newsprint to her canvas and wrote, I don't have friends.
Ilan's hand covered hers briefly as he plucked the charcoal from her hand and wrote beneath her words, you have me.”
― Dia Reeves, quote from Slice of Cherry
“If I had the power to resurrect, I'd use it on you." Now he was the one whispering. "There's an important part of you that's dead: the part that cares.”
― Dia Reeves, quote from Slice of Cherry
“She decided not to look him in the eyes ever again. It was too much like being shoved over the edge of a ravine.”
― Dia Reeves, quote from Slice of Cherry
“No, thanks. If I start wearing heels, boys will whistle at me when I walk by.”
― Dia Reeves, quote from Slice of Cherry
“Trying to understand Daddy is like trying to nail jelly to a tree.”
― Dia Reeves, quote from Slice of Cherry
“I’d give just about anything if I could make you care,” he said. “Especially about me.”
― Dia Reeves, quote from Slice of Cherry
“I caught her red-handed with her hands down his pants."
"You did not," Fancy told Madda sternly, with as much dignity as she was able. "It was just one hand.”
― Dia Reeves, quote from Slice of Cherry
“I do know you, Fancy. All about you. The problem is, you don’t know about me.”
― Dia Reeves, quote from Slice of Cherry
“Poison ivy and deer crap and rocks. Oh, my!”
― Dia Reeves, quote from Slice of Cherry
“When Fancy still didn't answer, he took her hand, and with his red paintbrush, he wrote 'please' into her palm.”
― Dia Reeves, quote from Slice of Cherry
“Maybe thats why they hate us.For reminding them that innocence is just an illusion, we're dark and maggoty all the way down tp the bone.Everyone of us.”
― Dia Reeves, quote from Slice of Cherry
“Wanna see the rest of my happy place?”
― Dia Reeves, quote from Slice of Cherry
“So...you don't like dismembering?"
"No."
"Evisceration?"
"Not so much." He laughed like he thought she was joking. "I'm a dull sorta guy."
"Yeah, kinda.”
― Dia Reeves, quote from Slice of Cherry
“I remember you from the woods. Where's your sister?"
"She's busy. Sinning.”
― Dia Reeves, quote from Slice of Cherry
“Sometimes I think I enjoy pain, physically and mentally. Sick right?”
― B.B. Reid, quote from Fear Me
“I have limited experience, but I know this: moments of connection with another human being are patently rare. But rarer still are those who can recognize such a connection when they see one.”
― David Arnold, quote from Mosquitoland
“Years as a healer and trauma therapist have taught me that trauma isn’t destiny. The body, not the thinking brain, is where we experience most of our pain, pleasure, and joy, and where we process most of what happens to us. It is also where we do most of our healing, including our emotional and psychological healing. And it is where we experience resilience and a sense of flow.”
― Resmaa Menakem, quote from My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts
“But that’s what he did, and if he has made up his mind to be idiotishly noble – Yes, it is going to be very difficult. I must think!”
― Georgette Heyer, quote from Venetia
“Here is your future ruler, King Evardo Fifteenth. He is fifteen years of age, has fifteen silver buckles on his jacket and is the fifteenth Evardo to rule the land of Ev." The people shouted their approval fifteen times,”
― L. Frank Baum, quote from Ozma of Oz
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