Quotes from Tiny Pretty Things

“The moment you think you're on top is the moment you've lost your passion.”
― Sona Charaipotra, quote from Tiny Pretty Things

“The Sugar Plum Fairy has the farthest to fall.”
― Sona Charaipotra, quote from Tiny Pretty Things

“Don't carry worries around," she always says. "They're heavy.”
― Sona Charaipotra, quote from Tiny Pretty Things

“My heart is flailing, thumping in my chest like a bird caught in a cage, wanting to be wild again.”
― Sona Charaipotra, quote from Tiny Pretty Things

“Because I’m black?” I straight out ask, hating that being different can be a code word for being black, for something that isn’t white. “No”—he”
― Sona Charaipotra, quote from Tiny Pretty Things

“I don't care about being happy. Only about being the best.”
― Sona Charaipotra, quote from Tiny Pretty Things

“When you go against fate, the result can be dangerous.”
― Sona Charaipotra, quote from Tiny Pretty Things

“You can't trust anyone - I learned that the hard way.”
― Sona Charaipotra, quote from Tiny Pretty Things

“This is crazy. Only psychopaths do this. This is some serial killer–type stuff.”
― Sona Charaipotra, quote from Tiny Pretty Things

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Self-satisfied gloating.
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“don’t you scrub up and have your dinner, and then you can decide where to go,” Mom said. I didn’t want to admit that I was hungry, but I was. And”
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“Quentin found it hard not to blame her doctors, and especially her father, for not being open-minded enough to at least consider the possibility that there had been nothing wrong with Diana from the beginning. But they hadn't. Faced with the inexplicable, with experiences and behaviors they didn't understand and were frightened by, they had acted swiftly, with all the supposed knowledge of modern-day medicine, to "fix" her "problems."

Even before she hit puberty, for Christ's sake.

And they had left her only half alive. A pale, colorless, vague, and passionless copy of the Diana she was meant to be.

Christ, no wonder she looked out on the world with wary, suspicious eyes. Finally off all the mind-numbing medications, Diana was clearheaded for the first time since childhood. Truly aware for the first time of the world around her. And not just aware, but painfully alert, with the raw-nerved sensitivity of most psychics.

She knew, now. No matter what she was willing to admit aloud or even consciously, she knew now that she had been kept half alive, less than that. Knew that those she had trusted most had betrayed that trust, even if they had done it in the name of love and concern and with all good intentions. They hadn't kept her safe, they had kept her doped up and compliant. They had sought to hammer away all the sharp, unique edges that made her Diana.

So she could be healthy. Like everybody else.

It had been in her voice when she'd told him, a haunted awareness of all she'd lost.

"I'm thirty-three now. You do the math."

He thought it must have been like waking from a coma or a hazy dream to find that everything that had gone before had not been real. The world had turned, time had moved on... and Diana had lost years.

Years.”
― Kay Hooper, quote from Chill of Fear

“Acceptance of the inevitable, a sign of a wise man.”
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