Jessica Pietro > Quotes

“A family should be whole. One unit.
Father, mother, children.
I have two of everything.

Two bikes. Two Gameboys. Two sets of Barbies.

Two fathers Two fathers
Two mothers Two mothers
Two siblings Two siblings

Two complete homes.
And only one M E.”
― Jessica Pietro, unfinished

“Foxxglove chuckled. 'Is there anyone you actually do like?'
Orian seemed to think it over. "Maybe Declan. Sometimes. Though less and less as time progresses.”
― Jessica Pietro, Seeking Elvyra

“Maybe she was magnificent. A magnificent artist who saw through the veil between fiction and reality and glimpsed truths about the world hidden from most. Who believed fairytales were real; full of secrets and dreams and destinies.”
― Jessica Pietro, Seeking Elvyra

“Do you remember the lamppost? In Petrichor?
It was a mosaic of broken glass. And the outcome was exquisite. That's how I see you.
Broken doesn't mean ugly.
Sometimes stains are beautiful.
Sometimes shattered pieces shine the brightest.
They catch any glimpse of light in the darkness and amplify it into a flurry of sparkles.
Even when the moon is but a sliver, it illuminates the blackest night.”
― Jessica Pietro, Ashgate Fortress

“Or we make a statement.” Vali gleefully tapped the tips of his fingers together. “And send a message to her in the form of their severed heads.”
― Jessica Pietro, Seeking Elvyra

“The man I knew him to be was like a fictional character locked in the pages of a book.
There to provoke connection and emotion, only to disappear, swept away with the closing of the final chapter and left afterwards to rest on a shelf.”
― Jessica Pietro, Ashgate Fortress

“Hooked together, not only by limbs, but through the buoyant and effervescent energy that holds two souls in place following a moment in time so chasmic and significant and radically unexpected that they fail to realize they've yet to let go.”
― Jessica Pietro, Ashgate Fortress

“I'll sit with you amongst the petals and pain as long as you need me to.”
― Jessica Pietro, Ashgate Fortress

“I wonder if all weeping willows have a little magic in them.”
― Jessica Pietro, Ashgate Fortress

“Now, I can't wait to wander beneath the trees.
My world is shrouded in darkness, but amongst roots and mushrooms and moss
I find life, healing... peace?”
― Jessica Pietro, unfinished

“We all think about running away sometimes.
Is it not the nature of all living things to fight or to flee rather than look our fears in the face with grace, compassion, and understanding?
Our thoughts do not determine the core of who we are in here.
Instead, our actions reveal a reflection of our desires, character, and inner strength.
You wished to leave, but you came back.
Which of these accurately declares the truth of who you are?”
― Jessica Pietro, Ashgate Fortress

“As I walk this path through my memories, trying to discern why why why
my world has always spun the wrong way, its axis tilted at the wrong angle,
he listens.”
― Jessica Pietro, unfinished

“The most magical of nights had slid into the most extraordinary dawn. The dark sky lightened from navy into a palette of pastels, and they’d watched as the approaching sun swallowed the stars. Then they’d fallen asleep wrapped in each other’s arms.”
― Jessica Pietro, Seeking Elvyra

“As minutes continued to blend together, piling up in stacks of hours that morphed into days of space stretching between the truths he'd divulged and the present, the potency of her anger had dwindled.
Though she endeavored to remind herself of all the pain he'd caused her, those emerald eyes expressed so much terrifying emotion, and she couldn't deny the effect it had on the cage barricading her heart.”
― Jessica Pietro, Ashgate Fortress

“Addiction ends in the slums, but it starts where the money is.”
― Jessica Pietro, Seeking Elvyra

“And yet... here we are.
Still human.
Still wading through this junked up world.
It's a muddy river, and I'm in nothing but a towel.
Bare feet sink into sludge. Dirt splatters my face.”
― Jessica Pietro, unfinished

“I don't deserve better. That's why I stay.
My saviornotasavior is wrong.
And let's be honest here,
cards
on
the table:
I am insane, too.”
― Jessica Pietro, unfinished

“Would my path have been a different one if I'd felt that sense of security?
I can't really say.
Nothing can change what has already happened.
Mistakes were made on all sides,
and this is where it has left me.”
― Jessica Pietro, unfinished

“In fact,
He's proud of me.
What does that even mean?
How could anyone be proud of the absolute disaster
I've become?”
― Jessica Pietro, unfinished

“Foxxglove stared out the window at the downpour, trying to wrap her head around everything he’d revealed. An entirely new world had opened up before her, and she felt as if she stood at a door, peeking through the keyhole, dying to step inside.”
― Jessica Pietro, Seeking Elvyra

“Heroin is his drug of choice.
And selfishness.
He's broken, too.
Sobriety has never looked better on a single, beautiful soul.”
― Jessica Pietro, unfinished

“So God, I ask You this:
How are we supposed to be both? a light amongst the darkness whole amongst the broken loving amongst the cruel
It's a contradiction.

we are dark
we are broken
we are cruel”
― Jessica Pietro, unfinished

“Like Icarus,
I escape imprisonment with wax-coated wings,
I rise high, then crash and burn
trying to fly too close to the sun.”
― Jessica Pietro, unfinished

“I'm beginning to think holding your hand might be far more terrifying than being lost in the dark.”
― Jessica Pietro, Ashgate Fortress