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

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

“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

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

“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

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

“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

“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 rumors weren't totally clear, which is very on-brand for Wes.”
― 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

“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

“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

“Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy pain and thy conception; in pain thou shalt bring forth children… Genesis 3:16, ASV”
― Danielle Valentine, Delicate Condition

“A mother to spiders.”
― 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

“Maybe it sounds like an overreaction to kill a man because of a few recipes.”
― Danielle Valentine, The Dead Husband Cookbook

“Somewhere in the swimming, blistering pain, I found myself thinking that I didn’t know how women ever forgave their children for this. For ripping their bodies apart, destroying them.”
― 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

“I hope we stop assuming that pain is a woman’s birthright and start trying to find a way to ease the burden, just a little. Childbirth is not, after all, something that only affects women—it affects us all.”
― Danielle Valentine, Delicate Condition

“Doctors are mostly guessing at how drugs affect unborn babies and the women carrying them. This bias isn’t limited to people who have or are planning to get pregnant. Throughout the history of medicine, women have been included in far fewer medical studies, less research and fewer drug trials than men have been. This is true even during studies and drugs for things that solely or mostly affect cis women, like breast and ovarian cancer. It’s absolutely unacceptable. And yet it still continues, to this day.”
― Danielle Valentine, Delicate Condition

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