“He was living, breathing poetry. Not love poetry, but the poetry which tears out your heart, rips it to shreds, pushes it back into your chest, and makes you question what the hell just obliterated your soul.”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Sweet Hope
“Lei era speranza… She was hope. La mia luce… my light.”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Sweet Hope
“A toast... to taking a chance, because that chance taken may be the very path that leads you to your happily ever after.”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Sweet Hope
“We are the Carillo Boys. Three brothers born into chaos and pain. Three brothers who'd endured tragedy and loss. Brothers until the end, bound by blood, our bond unbreakable by unconditional love.”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Sweet Hope
“Fuck porn. A chick as hot as Aliyana Lucia sitting in front of me, hair ruffled in a messy knot and shirt gaping, talking to me in Spanish was the hottest thing I’d ever fucking seen.”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Sweet Hope
“Io prego perché tu possa trovare la tua luce, mio figlio smarrito… I pray you find your light, my lost son…”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Sweet Hope
“I’d never once thought that I deserved a second chance, never wanted one. As far as I was concerned, I deserved to spend the rest of my life miserable for what I’d done. But here, deep inside the most beautiful woman I’d ever seen, the woman who just got me, I was bartering with God to let me keep her…just for a while…to keep feeling…this.”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Sweet Hope
“Amor Prohibido murmuran por las calles. Porque somos de distintas sociedades…” in perfect Spanish. She was having fun, letting loose…”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Sweet Hope
“For the first time in my life, I wanted to feel that happy, if only for a minute, I wanted to know what that level of freedom felt like. It looked… nice… Aliyana, standing there swaying her hips, not a damn care in the world, was like feeling a ray of light shining on your face when you’d been stuck in a dark pit your whole life.”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Sweet Hope
“From the first time I ever saw your angel sculpture, it seared my heart…I always knew if I could meet you in the flesh, your soul would do the same.”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Sweet Hope
“I ain’t used to feeling good thing… I can’t ever face feeling much of anything… I’ve done too much bad shit, enough to down me … but with you…I feel…I feel…everything, every-fucking-thing… right here…” I pressed her hand harder against my heart.”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Sweet Hope
“My thighs ached from the force of his grip. My back”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Sweet Hope
“For the first time ever, someone was sharing in this pain with me. A virtual stranger. And I didn’t know what the hell to do with how damn good that felt. I’d vowed to never let anyone in. I didn’t understand why I’d broken that vow with her.”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Sweet Hope
“She’d drilled through to my fucking soul…the tainted soul I never ever wanted anyone to see.”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Sweet Hope
“Being with Aliyana like this…her accepting soul only seeing me for me and not my past, a fucking unwarranted blind faith…she filled me with hope.”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Sweet Hope
“She gave this cold heart of mine life. She gave it light. She was its fucking rhythmic beat.”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Sweet Hope
“You’re not the villain in this story, you’re the beautifully flawed hero. You’re the dark hero who has been sacrificing himself all along so others would be safe…and you did it all fully understanding that no one could ever know. But I know, and I don’t care what anything thinks of me for giving my heart to you.”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Sweet Hope
“You are my hope, Ally. You’re every hope I’ve ever dared to have.”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Sweet Hope
“She was fucking perfection.
She was my light. A blazing golden light. When you’re locked in perpetual darkness, you’ll do anything to fucking chase that light.
La mia luce…”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Sweet Hope
“I’m not a good person, Aliyana. I’m fucked up. I’ve got a real dark soul and more sins piled at my door than the Devil himself. You should be running away from me, not willingly running into the darkness holding my fucking hand.”
“It’s too late,” she said quietly. “You’ve already consumed me. There is no turning back from you, not now. My hand’s never letting go of yours, eternal darkness or not.”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Sweet Hope
Tillie Cole
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“From then on, we knew there could never be a problem bigger than Mom's ability to solve it.”
― quote from The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less
“I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more”
― Franz Kafka, quote from Slottet
“But water doesn't care for human sorrows. It flows without slowing or quickening its pace in the darkness of the earth, where only stones will hear.”
― Emmi Itäranta, quote from Memory of Water
“Often there is no dramatic reason for discontent in marriages. It seeps in slowly over the years. You don’t even notice it creeping up. It happens, trickle by trickle. You do not realise when or how the easy familiarity gets replaced by a ‘taken-for-granted’ attitude over the years. By the time you do, it is often too late. Habits have been formed, patterns have been set. And a comfort-zone has been established. A zone that is hard to get out of.”
― Preeti Shenoy, quote from The Secret Wish List
“It strikes me that although we occasionally carp about Having To Suffer, and moan about never producing real Art, and become despondent or try too hard to compensate, we are indulging in our usual trick of synthesizing something to worry about, and should really be thanking ourselves that we live the life we do. We may think ourselves parasites, complain about Mind-generated tales, and long for ‘genuine’ feelings, ‘real’ emotion, but we are missing the point, and indeed making a work of art ourselves in imagining such an uncomplicated existence is even possible. We have the best of it.”
― Iain M. Banks, quote from The State of the Art
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