Piper C.J. > Quotes

“After all, judgment was an armchair luxury for those who had never known suffering.”
― Piper C.J., The Sun and Its Shade

“You can be both broken and rebuilt. You can endure trauma and in the midst of pain discover strength. Your wounds have not defined you; it is you who have re-created yourself despite them.”
― Piper C.J., The Sun and Its Shade

“These wounds had become a part of her, and she would make these broken parts beautiful.”
― Piper C.J., The Sun and Its Shade

“What a sensation to know someone well enough to hear the cadence of their silence.”
― Piper C.J., The Deer and the Dragon

“Lets be sunflowers”
― Piper C.J., The Deer and the Dragon

“Part of growth was realizing the times you deserved the role of villain in other people’s stories.”
― Piper C.J., The Dawn and Its Light

“Maybe that was the thing about spending your life in a state of survival. Unlearning the constant need to exist in fight-or-flight was just as challenging as staying afloat had been.”
― Piper C.J., The Dawn and Its Light

“Your heart is open, loyal, and good. Your faith is part of what makes you beautiful. Do not mourn your past. Leave it there, where it belongs”
― Piper C.J., The Dawn and Its Light

“Clearly, his combination of innocent loveliness and assertive domination worked on women who favored the company of men. Nox didn’t always hate men. She had found some friendly, and others tolerable, if not occasionally charming in their own way.”
― Piper C.J., The Night & Its Moon

“Perhaps her greatest feat lay ahead. After a lifetime spent clawing, fighting, tired, broken, and angry, the biggest adventure remained: to allow herself to be happy.”
― Piper C.J., The Dawn and Its Light

“aquatint”
― Piper C.J., The Night & Its Moon

“To the bisexuals: Remember, September is bi visibility month. Commit your crimes by midnight on August 31st, lest they perceive you. Resume escapades October 1st.”
― Piper C.J., The Gloom Between Stars

“She couldn’t hate the boys for what they’d done. After all, judgment was an armchair luxury for those who had never known suffering.”
― Piper C.J., The Sun and Its Shade

“If someone adores your for your chaos. What's the best way to honor that love? If they treasure your ruthlessness. If they celebrate your anarchy. If they love you as you are. Do you think they'd be dancing in the streets if you gave up the very essence that is the core of your being that made them fall for you?”
― Piper C.J., The Deer and the Dragon

“That feeling you get when someone you care about is closing off from you and there's nothing you can do to stop it... it's unbearable.”
― Piper C.J., The Sun and Its Shade

“After all, every child deserved unconditional love from their family for exactly who they were, not for who they hoped their child might be.”
― Piper C.J., The Night & Its Moon

“I don't have to provide a better alternative to know when I am hearing something stupid.”
― Piper C.J., The Sun and Its Shade

“l ne s’était pas soucié de retenir le nom de l’enfant. Son identité ne signifiait rien. Elle n’était qu’un pion dans le jeu auquel s’adonnaient les puissants pour démontrer qu’ils avaient le droit de faire ce qu’ils voulaient. Ce n’était qu’une question de contrôle, le jeu des hommes, le jeu de la religion, un jeu de pouvoir.

"The Night and its Moon”
― Piper C.J.

“she looked like she was about to sell me crystals and tell me that astral projection had changed her life.”
― Piper C.J., The Deer and the Dragon

“His muscled shoulders said he rowed or played lacrosse, or whatever other sport those bratty douchebags who wore Greek letters used to stay in shape.”
― Piper C.J., This Book Sucks

“Quelle meilleure manière de duper les hommes que de leur faire croire qu'ils menaient la danse ? Qu'ils avaient le pouvoir ? Leur tête était si creuse, leur cœur, si noir, qu'ils imaginaient qu'ils dominaient le monde.”
― Piper C.J., The Night and Its Moon

“Once we had a single taste of each other, we were the only thing we wanted to do.”
― Piper C.J., This Book Sucks

“Il ne s’était pas soucié de retenir le nom de l’enfant. Son identité ne signifiait rien. Elle n’était qu’un pion dans le jeu auquel s’adonnaient les puissants pour démontrer qu’ils avaient le droit de faire ce qu’ils voulaient. Ce n’était qu’une question de contrôle, le jeu des hommes, le jeu de la religion, un jeu de pouvoir.”
― Piper C.J., The Night and Its Moon

“I said she tasted like sunset. She said I tasted like life.”
― Piper C.J., This Book Sucks

“Destiny is what you make it, and you and me, my love: we’re forged in blood.”
― Piper C.J., This Book Sucks

“She was in the worst kind of love: the one that would never be returned. She knew it, and yet, she couldn’t leave.”
― Piper C.J., The Night & Its Moon

“If you wouldn’t burn the world to the ground for the one you love, are you even in love?”
― Piper C.J., The Deer and the Dragon

“couldn’t hate the boys for what they’d done. After all, judgment was an armchair luxury for those who had never known suffering.”
― Piper C.J., The Sun and Its Shade

“ambiguous”
― Piper C.J., The Deer and the Dragon

“For a few minutes, sometimes even for a few days, I could pretend that I was someone different. I could let go of the chains that shackled me to the earth and disappear into a marvelous something.”
― Piper C.J., The Deer and the Dragon