“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
“We’re required to learn to swim but we’re not allowed in the river,” she found herself telling him.”
― Lois Lowry, quote from Son
“His dad said if you did something wrong to someone in public, you ought to admit it in public, too.”
― Suzanne Collins, quote from Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods
“A wife! No one else could love a man who had been trampled on by iron feet. She would wash his feet after he had been spat on; she would comb his tangled hair; she would look into his embittered eyes. The more lacerated his soul, the more revolting and contemptible he became to the world, the more she would love him. She would run after a truck; she would wait in queues on Kuznetsky Most, or even by the camp boundary fence, desperate to hand over a few sweets or an onion; she would bake shortbread for him on an oil stove; she would give years of her life just to be able to see him for half an hour...
Not every woman you sleep with can be called a wife.”
― Vasily Grossman, quote from Life and Fate
“That was how history worked, wasn't it? If it wasn't written down it never existed. You might leave behind jewelry and pottery, ornamental tombs, you might leave behind your own bones to be dug up at a later age, but none of those artifacts could express how you felt.”
― Kate Atkinson, quote from Case Histories
“Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
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