Quotes from Slice of Cherry

“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

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“The Skin Horse had lived longer in the nursery than any of the others. He was so old that his brown coat was bald in patches and showed the seams underneath, and most of the hairs in his tail had been pulled out to string bead necklaces. He was wise, for he had seen a long succession of mechanical toys arrive to boast and swagger, and by-and-by break their mainsprings and pass away, and he knew that they were only toys, and would never turn into anything else. For nursery magic is very strange and wonderful, and only those playthings that are old and wise and experienced like the Skin Horse understand all about it.

"What is REAL?" asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room. "Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?"

"Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse. "It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real."

"Does it hurt?" asked the Rabbit.

"Sometimes," said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. "When you are Real you don't mind being hurt."

"Does it happen all at once, like being wound up," he asked, "or bit by bit?"

"It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand."

"I suppose you are real?" said the Rabbit. And then he wished he had not said it, for he thought the Skin Horse might be sensitive. But the Skin Horse only smiled.

"The Boy's Uncle made me Real," he said. "That was a great many years ago; but once you are Real you can't become unreal again. It lasts for always.”
― Margery Williams Bianco, quote from The Velveteen Rabbit

“Healing is a deeply private process and, honestly, you’re not welcome to be a part of it. But you will have given me a short furlough from the dark, sorry prison of my mind, and that gift, precious in its own right, is really the best you can hope to offer.”
― Jonathan Tropper, quote from How To Talk To A Widower

“Family wasn't build by blood-it was built by love.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, quote from The Gravity of Us

“No harm in listening. Alexei's a child, not a wizard. We don't lose control of our brains by listening.”
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“Once the moon gets to be full somebody - some man or other - goes up every day and slices bits of one side until there isn't any more,and then after a bit a new one grows. Men do that with all sorts of things, actually - rose bushes for instance.... The man who slices the bits off brings them down here and then they're used for making those lights on the cars. Clever isn't it... They only last about one night, I should think, because you hardly ever see them shining by day.”
― Richard Adams, quote from The Plague Dogs

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