Danielle Valentine > Quotes

“Adrenaline is good when you're running from serial killers.”
― Danielle Valentine, How to Survive Your Murder

“I didn’t know this then, but the truth is there’s no such thing as an uncomplicated pregnancy. We all give something up in exchange for our babies. Nearly everyone on this planet was welcomed by the sounds of a woman screaming.”
― Danielle Valentine, Delicate Condition

“Maybe it would be better to let the world burn down. Maybe it was time to create something new in its place.”
― Danielle Valentine, Delicate Condition

“I heard somewhere that people say "I can't imagine" only about things they can imagine perfectly and wish they couldn't.”
― Danielle Valentine, How to Survive Your Murder

“Doctors don’t understand our bodies, they don’t believe us about our symptoms, and they ignore us when we try to tell them we’re in pain.”
― Danielle Valentine, Delicate Condition

“And it takes me a second to remember what were actually talking about, the horror movie that is my life instead of the romantic comedy that is Millie's.”
― Danielle Valentine, How to Survive Your Murder

“Even strong people need to fall apart.”
― Danielle Valentine, Two Sides to Every Murder

“I stumbled back into the bedroom, wondering if a woman has ever calmed down after a man told her to.”
― Danielle Valentine, Delicate Condition

“I felt myself loosen a little, like I always did when talking about horror movies.”
― Danielle Valentine, How to Survive Your Murder

“You have to feel your feelings, even the unpleasant ones.”
― Danielle Valentine, Two Sides to Every Murder

“Was there some magical, next-level love I wouldn’t be able to feel until I became a mother? Or was that just something we told women so they’d keep breeding?”
― Danielle Valentine, Delicate Condition

“Chloe was at a loss for words. What were you supposed to say when a guy made chain saw noises at you?”
― Danielle Valentine, How to Survive Your Murder

“Maybe the lesson here is that it doesn’t matter how many times you rewind, there’s always something you’re going to regret.”
― Danielle Valentine, How to Survive Your Murder

“Did I miss anything good?”
― Danielle Valentine, How to Survive Your Murder

“She figured they’d look seriously sick holding a chain saw, like the guy in that freaky chain saw movie, Jason, or whatever his name was.”
― Danielle Valentine, How to Survive Your Murder

“The rumors weren't totally clear, which is very on-brand for Wes.”
― Danielle Valentine, How to Survive Your Murder

“Wes looked back at me, waiting for me to say something, but for some reason the thing that popped into my head at that moment was this story I once heard about how the movie Saw was inspired by a news report about a man who broke into people’s houses to tickle the feet of sleeping children. Do not say that out loud, Alice.”
― Danielle Valentine, How to Survive Your Murder

“The tendency to assume that women can’t be trusted to accurately convey their symptoms comes from the historical diagnosis of “hysteria,” which was once thought to be a medical condition said to only affect women.”
― Danielle Valentine, Delicate Condition

“Either I was losing my mind, or something truly horrifying was happening to my body. It seemed ridiculous that all anyone ever told me was that I needed to take another damn aspirin.”
― Danielle Valentine, Delicate Condition

“It wasn't even about fear - it was about being smart. Anyone who'd ever seen a scary movie knew to skip the corn maze, just like we knew not to venture down into a basement or up into an attic, to drive past hitchhikers and heed the warnings of toothless old men at gas stations. If you watched enough horrible things happen on-screen, you could figure out how to avoid them in real life.”
― Danielle Valentine, How to Survive Your Murder

“Real labor doesn’t happen like it does in the movies. For one thing, it takes so much longer than you think it will. You don’t rush to the hospital the moment you feel your first contraction, already pushing, screaming for drugs while an angry nurse tells you it’s too late, the baby’s already coming. That’s all fiction.”
― Danielle Valentine, Delicate Condition

“You keep my secrets and I’ll keep yours.”
― Danielle Valentine, The Dead Husband Cookbook

“Murder, cannibalism, meatballs made of people.”
― Danielle Valentine, The Dead Husband Cookbook

“Sometimes it felt like the continuation of our species was an ongoing experiment being performed on the backs of women. Or on our wombs.”
― Danielle Valentine, Delicate Condition

“A mother to spiders.”
― Danielle Valentine, Delicate Condition

“I no longer felt numb. I felt whatever came after that. I felt dead. I felt like everything inside of me was rotting.”
― Danielle Valentine, Delicate Condition

“The things that made you lucky could also be the things that made you suffer. Io wished people would stop telling women they should be grateful for their suffering instead of trying to help them with it.”
― Danielle Valentine, Delicate Condition

“But a witch’s soul is a powerful force, a stabilising force.”
― Danielle Valentine

“Crawford had turned back to Dex, addressing him like he was the one in charge of my uterus. I wanted to grab his chin and force him to look at me, talk to me, but I didn’t. I didn’t have the energy for that.”
― Danielle Valentine, Delicate Condition

“If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans.”
― Danielle Valentine, The Dead Husband Cookbook