“Darkness doesn't have fingers that twist into my flesh.”
― S.M. Parker, quote from The Girl Who Fell
“A small metal marble pinballs within my chest, banging and clanging against all the routes inside me.”
― S.M. Parker, quote from The Girl Who Fell
“His chair glides a few inches closer and he's in my face, all shoulders and cologne.”
― S.M. Parker, quote from The Girl Who Fell
“It's not the game, Zee. It's the fame. Everyone wants to be affiliated with a winner.”
― S.M. Parker, quote from The Girl Who Fell
“Lying on my bed, my brain cyclones with thoughts of men and boys and boys and men. All making the wrong choices.”
― S.M. Parker, quote from The Girl Who Fell
“That's not what it looked like'
He hangs his ha. "I know what it looked like. I wanted it to look that way.'
'Why?'
'Because I'm an idiot.' he brushes away a teardrop that creeps along his cheek. His eyes meet mine. 'I wanted to show you how you hurt me.'
'When have I hurt you like that? I've never even looked at another guy'
'See? You don't get it. That's why I needed to teach you a lesson.”
― S.M. Parker, quote from The Girl Who Fell
S.M. Parker
Born place: Boston
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― Catherine M. Wilson, quote from A Hero's Tale
“Despite our perennial bad behavior, our moral progress seems to me unmistakable.”
― Sam Harris, quote from The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values
“Elinor would have surely ignored them, such was her habit and her inclination, even though she knew whenever someone ignored what hurt her most, she'd wind up in grave circumstances. Ignore love, she now understood, and a person might bleed forever, even if no one could tell.”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from The Probable Future
“Cómo debo vivir?». La respuesta de Tolstói era: «Tú conoces en tu corazón lo que es recto».”
― Ken Follett, quote from The Man From St. Petersburg
“I wanted the chance to give him something, to give him the best of me, as pathetic as it was, damaged and broken, warped at the edges, hardly worth having. I decided that if I had the chance, if he asked, if he needed, it was his.”
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