“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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“Love is for people who share the same faith most of all. The same goals and dreams and futures.”
― Karen Kingsbury, quote from Forgiven
“All men burn with foolish jealousy, but women are fools to take delight in it. This world is full of fools no matter where you look.”
― Isuna Hasekura, quote from Spice & Wolf, Vol. 01
“They were totally alone, those kids, like each had been accidentally sent to earth from a distant planet to live among adult humans and be dependent on them for everything because compared to the adult humans they were extremely fragile creatures and didn't know the language or how anything here worked and hadn't arrived with any money. And because they were like forbidden by the humans to use their old language they'd forgotten it so they couldn't be much company or help to each other either. They couldn't even talk about the old days and so pretty soon they forgot there ever were any old days and all there was now was life on earth with adult humans who called them children and acted toward them like they owned them and like they were objects not living creatures with souls.”
― Russell Banks, quote from Rule of the Bone
“When we heard those shots and he saw Ploeg lying in front of the house, what he said was, 'My God, the lizards!'"
With wide-eyed disbelief Anton looked out over her head.”
― Harry Mulisch, quote from The Assault
“I held my breath—but the pain was worse, jagged edges of glass ripping my heart apart,”
― Melanie Benjamin, quote from Alice I Have Been
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