Tess Stimson > Quotes

“Don't you dare hide behind your illness!"
"You were the one who just said I couldn't help it!"
"You can't help being ill, but you can help what you do about it," Eithne says sharply.”
― Tess Stimson, The Infidelity Chain

“Grief isn't something that abates. You simply learn to live with it, in the spaces around it. A scar forms: to the outside world, it looks as if you've healed. But the pain never goes away.”
― Tess Stimson, The New House

“Motherhood means living simultaneously in joy and desperation.”
― Tess Stimson, The New House

“good people sometimes do bad things for the right reasons. That doesn’t make them bad people.”
― Tess Stimson, The New House

“asked”
― Tess Stimson, The New House

“Os verdadeiros monstros não são aquelas pessoas esquisitas e repugnantes, com cabelo engordurado e olhar mortiço, à sua espreita em becos escuros. São agradáveis homens de família, bonitos e charmosos, que vivem ao nosso redor, acima de qualquer suspeita.”
― Tess Stimson, Ex/Mulher

“Perhaps she was right. Violence is never the answer, of course. Until it’s the only option.”
― Tess Stimson, The New House

“If someone threatens our child, we’ll crush their eyeballs with our thumbs and rip out their heart with our teeth if necessary.”
― Tess Stimson, The New House

“Ter a capacidade de se esconder sob uma persona no palco é muito diferente de ficar sob os holofotes na vida real.”
― Tess Stimson, Ex/Mulher

“God needs to do something really awful, She sends an angel.”
― Tess Stimson, The New House

“Resilience isn’t just about exercising your strengths: it’s about finding the strength in your weaknesses.”
― Tess Stimson, The New House

“Os segredos têm sua própria maneira de se revelar.”
― Tess Stimson, Ex/Mulher

“It’s the dark truth hidden away like a portrait in the attic, withered, wrinkled and loathsome of visage.”
― Tess Stimson, The New House

“psychopaths like me are biologically incapable of empathy.”
― Tess Stimson, The New House

“Grief shapes you in unexpected ways: you are never the person you once were, but you figure out a way to move through the world.”
― Tess Stimson, The New House

“I don’t have a plan. I don’t need one: the devil looks after his own.”
― Tess Stimson, The New House

“followers”
― Tess Stimson, The New House

“Nossas lembranças se remodelam para acomodar as novas situações que acabamos enfrentando. A memória é flexível.”
― Tess Stimson, Ex/Mulher