“You don't really know someone until you see them in the dark.”
― Pam Godwin, quote from Vanquish
“They both carried a million cracks beneath the skin. Even under the stark light of the fluorescents, it was hard to see which of them was more broken. But for the first time, she felt like she had to vanquish her mental illness not for herself but for someone else. Because she was broken with him, and if she fixed herself, maybe she could make him a little less broken, too.”
― Pam Godwin, quote from Vanquish
“After I flay the skin from your body, I'm going to dye it and sew it into a handbag. Special order from your momma.”
― Pam Godwin, quote from Vanquish
“Love and hate are closely related expressions of the same intensity. Both require passion, and neither follows logic.”
― Pam Godwin, quote from Vanquish
“He tipped her a crooked smile, made of sugar and shit.”
― Pam Godwin, quote from Vanquish
“Sometimes you have to step back to open the door.”
― Pam Godwin, quote from Vanquish
“Separation from people hadn't cured her need to please. She longed to lift the hem of isolation, look into eyes full of acceptance, and see in them the reflection of a woman who didn't give a rat's ass.”
― Pam Godwin, quote from Vanquish
“Her lips slid into a foxy grin. “I made little Van voodoo dolls and stabbed them with toothpicks.”
― Pam Godwin, quote from Vanquish
“Her naiveté would be the first thing vanquished by the hard, heavy weight between his legs.”
― Pam Godwin, quote from Vanquish
“I'm the inescapable curse that caught you when you opened your door.”
― Pam Godwin, quote from Vanquish
“Eliminating the toxicity in your life is not a failure. It's curative and courageous and never, ever easy.”
― Pam Godwin, quote from Vanquish
“I'm sorry"
Whatever she heard in his voice, perhaps the reedy vulnerability in his otherwise controlled tone, brought her hands out from beneath him to grip his jaw and guide his face into light.
She stared up at him for a long, terrifying moment, her eyes searching, her lips rolling together. Then her fingers moved to his temples, combing through the hair over his ears, tenderly, lovingly, in a way he didn't deserve. Her gaze didn't waver from his as she swallowed. "I will never forget. But maybe someday, I might be able to forgive.”
― Pam Godwin, quote from Vanquish
“I'd like to make you an offer.”
― Pam Godwin, quote from Vanquish
“Fuck him, but he wanted to be her security, her anchor, her fucking everything. Not as her captor but as her lover.”
― Pam Godwin, quote from Vanquish
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“If you want something, you don't wait for the world to deal it out for you. You take it.”
― Poppy Z. Brite, quote from Lost Souls
“I thought that exile meant you had to leave your country and you could go anywhere--somewhere in the sun, a tropical island, say, or America. But exile doesn't mean that; it means you are banished to a specific place, and guess what, that place isn't in the sun and is no paradise, it's not even America. It's some cold, miserable place like Siberia, where you don't know anyone and you can barely survive. It's another prison.”
― Sally Green, quote from Half Bad
“There is always something to see, if you only know how to look.”
― Michael Scott, quote from The Necromancer
“If you don't have answers to your problems after a four-hour run, you ain't getting them.”
― Christopher McDougall, quote from Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
“Your assignment,' he bellowed at Kelly, 'was to make a persuasive argument. Demanding to know whether detractors of your position are on crack is not arguing persuasively.”
― Meg Cabot, quote from Reunion
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