Wendy Heard > Quotes

“Why are you apologizing when you didn’t do anything wrong? That’s something we teach girls to do—always apologize, never be a burden. You have a right to take up space.”
― Wendy Heard, She's Too Pretty to Burn

“This is what he does. He paints you into a picture. He turns you into a puppet.”
― Wendy Heard, She's Too Pretty to Burn

“I’m so glad I didn’t melt you down with steel and turn you into a lifeless, shining doll. What a waste that would have been. You’re too pretty to burn.”
― Wendy Heard, She's Too Pretty to Burn

“You wouldn’t have anything to be scared of if you didn’t commit felony fucking arson.”
― Wendy Heard, She's Too Pretty to Burn

“She was so many layers. One layer was sweet and shy. The next layer was dark and unpredictable. Under that, a layer of fierce dominance. She was the ocean, with its riptides and its soft, clean breeze and its beauty and its chilling, shark-filled depths." -Veronica”
― Wendy Heard, She's Too Pretty to Burn

“I suppose every villain is the hero of his own story.”
― Wendy Heard

“You’re seventeen, not twelve. You’re old enough to drive and have sex, and next year you’re allowed to murder people in the military. I think you can handle a little bit of sour grape juice.”
― Wendy Heard, She's Too Pretty to Burn

“I want to escape, but it's me that's the problem. There's nowhere to go that I won't also be.”
― Wendy Heard, She's Too Pretty to Burn

“This couldn’t be good. The layers of lies and secrets were piling up fast now, like dirt being shoveled into a grave.”
― Wendy Heard, She's Too Pretty to Burn

“I feel that way a lot, like I could scream and no one would hear a thing.”
― Wendy Heard, She's Too Pretty to Burn

“You’re not even really an artist. Everything you want is safe and boring. You want to fall in love, you want a successful career. You have a picket-fence life, and that’s all you want.”
― Wendy Heard, She's Too Pretty to Burn

“That photo Veronica took of me feels like a leaked nude—I’d never show that side of myself to total strangers, but now it’s out there for anyone to see. Next up, the Inner You shoot—actual nudes. Why not, right? Soon there will be nothing left of me that hasn’t been consumed by strangers on the internet.”
― Wendy Heard, She's Too Pretty to Burn

“It was like having the camera suddenly turned on me. I couldn’t think of a single thing about myself, not with her freaking ab muscles visible through her freaking shirt.”
― Wendy Heard, She's Too Pretty to Burn

“For one poignant moment, my mom and I lock eyes, and I realize how much I look like her, how much I love her and how much I have always longed for her to truly see me.”
― Wendy Heard, Hunting Annabelle

“Sometimes, grief seizes me in a violent grip, and when it does, I almost double over in pain. I pause, breathe, try to release the image of how my life was meant to be. It doesn't matter what was destines; it only matters what actually happened. That's what I tell myself.”
― Wendy Heard, We'll Never Tell

“You know my parents are all about, like, being special. Doing something big. They always act like Jacob’s this… distraction. Like I should be friends with more important people. They like Zoe. She’s somebody.”
― Wendy Heard, We'll Never Tell

“Beneath it, I feel a twinge of resentment. Sometimes she makes everything such a production, even when it’s completely unnecessary, engineering situations so she’s always on center stage. What does that make me? Set dressing?”
― Wendy Heard, We'll Never Tell

“Growing up in Southern California, you hear about wildfires constantly. Whenever people hear that someone started one on purpose, they look at each other in horror and disgust. What kind of person could do such a thing? What kind of monster would intentionally destroy all those animals’ habitats, all that nature?”
― Wendy Heard, She's Too Pretty to Burn

“hate it when she says things like this. How is my own private human body a waste?”
― Wendy Heard, She's Too Pretty to Burn

“But in reality, there’s no romance in a crime of passion. There’s just the ending of a life, small and quiet, and the broken people who get left behind.”
― Wendy Heard, We'll Never Tell

“I’d never do that.” The fact that he thinks I’d out him hurts. He knows I’m queer. It reminds me how little I actually know Eddie. He plays his cards very close to the vest. Jacob’s always been the one who helps him open up around us, who can access the funny parts of him. But now…”
― Wendy Heard, We'll Never Tell

“You were standing there watching. And then you took the torch from him. You set that fire. He didn’t make you. He didn’t even ask you. You’re not this innocent girl. You chose him over me the night of the fire, and again the night of the gala.”
― Wendy Heard, She's Too Pretty to Burn

“But what I don’t want is someone turning it into a museum, some morbid theme park where visitors try to summon the ghost of Rosalinda. You know? That’s my biggest fear.”
― Wendy Heard, We'll Never Tell

“feel hatred for my own mother. My eyes prick with tears, and I stare out at the dark suburbs, blinking hard until they clear.”
― Wendy Heard, She's Too Pretty to Burn

“Everyone who inherits it dies within a few years.” “My family’s full of drug addiction, so yeah, that tends to happen.” I lift my hands, defensive. “Hey, I’m with you. I don’t believe in curses.”
― Wendy Heard, We'll Never Tell

“Where does Julie fit into this?” Michael shrugs. “She was just being helpful.” His focus is back on his painting. “You came into my house and thought you could get the best of me. Arrogant.”
― Wendy Heard, You Can Trust Me

“I felt like, how did I even get to this point where my entire life is tied up in this one person? If you and I decide to be together and then we break up, I don't just lose you. I lose your dad. I lose my place to go that isn't my empty house. I'll have to hide all our stuff in a box, shut my memories of you away.”
― Wendy Heard, We'll Never Tell

“I couldn’t imagine having a mom who would physically kick me out of the house. What would I do if I were in her situation? I was trying to show her that I was there for her in every possible way without being overly clingy, and I was also trying to figure out when to tell her about PostMod magazine and the gala.”
― Wendy Heard, She's Too Pretty to Burn

“I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature. —CHARLOTTE BRONTË, JANE EYRE”
― Wendy Heard, You Can Trust Me

“Or I can discuss laser face peels with some lady who thinks Pelotons are for the nouveaux riches.” I can’t help but”
― Wendy Heard, You Can Trust Me