Cassondra Windwalker > Quotes

“Love seeks out that desperate, lonely, frightened place inside each of us and coaxes it out into the daylight, so that it can eviscerate it in the burning heat of the sun.”
― Cassondra Windwalker

“All you had to do was line up events as though they had happened in linear fashion and let the crowds draw what they thought was their own conclusion.”
― Cassondra Windwalker, Bury The Lead

“I'm here for the rollercoaster, baby, for the lights and the colors and the screams.”
― Cassondra Windwalker, Idle Hands

“Once people think they know who you are, changing their perception is all but impossible. Humans adore labels and will cling to them in the face of almost anything.”
― Cassondra Windwalker, Bury The Lead

“I’m not your adversary, specifically. That’s just the part I play.”
― Cassondra Windwalker, Idle Hands: The devil is in the details in the haunting novel about the choices we make

“Losing face was a possibility no narcissist could permit”
― Cassondra Windwalker, Idle Hands

“Autumn waits on midnight, for the hour when her cold, relentless lover will brush her cheeks and change her tears to diamonds...”
― Cassondra Windwalker

“I’m here to remind you who you are, not who you could be.”
― Cassondra Windwalker, Idle Hands: The devil is in the details in the haunting novel about the choices we make

“And that’s the kicker, of course — every now and then, reality actually does pivot on a single choice.”
― Cassondra Windwalker, Idle Hands: The devil is in the details in the haunting novel about the choices we make

“Sometimes the shortcut to vice is through virtue.”
― Cassondra Windwalker, Idle Hands: The devil is in the details in the haunting novel about the choices we make

“he stayed up late to watch the stars travel their invisible roads.”
― Cassondra Windwalker, Idle Hands: The devil is in the details in the haunting novel about the choices we make

“Death is an angel. Death is definitely going to be there,”
― Cassondra Windwalker, Idle Hands: The devil is in the details in the haunting novel about the choices we make

“I’m the devil, remember? I was never going to spin this into a happy ending for you. You can only make that yourself.”
― Cassondra Windwalker, Idle Hands: The devil is in the details in the haunting novel about the choices we make

“Perdie looked down at her hands as if a better answer waited there. "That's true. Life hasn't been fair to these kids, and neither have I.”
― Cassondra Windwalker, Idle Hands

“The truth will set you free, Jeff, whether is saves you or not.”
― Cassondra Windwalker, Bury The Lead

“From this day on, every mother that breathes will share the fear that you are just about to learn. And on that fear, I will finally feed to satisfaction.”
― Cassondra Windwalker, Parable of Pronouns

“Perdie had picked up more than a handful of unhealthy habits born out of her experiences as a battered wife, and she'd unconsciously attempted to sabotage her new marriage more than once or twice.”
― Cassondra Windwalker, Idle Hands

“It was her fault she'd stayed so long that they'd grown inured to terror the only way they knew how: by sympathising with the aggressor”
― Cassondra Windwalker, Idle Hands

“Perdie knew it wasn't healthy to find reassurance in the fully deliberate nature of her husband's cruelty; but then, she'd given up on healthy a long time ago”
― Cassondra Windwalker, Idle Hands

“I’m the choice some of you find so necessary to the concept of free will; what others of you deny even exists in favour of behavioural predestination. I think the least imaginative name I’ve heard is “the devil”, but I’ll answer to it if I must.”
― Cassondra Windwalker, Idle Hands: The devil is in the details in the haunting novel about the choices we make

“one of the prevailing misconceptions of humanity is the all-consuming importance of every decision you make.”
― Cassondra Windwalker, Idle Hands: The devil is in the details in the haunting novel about the choices we make

“Learned shame and guilt are far more powerful weapons than fists.”
― Cassondra Windwalker, Idle Hands: The devil is in the details in the haunting novel about the choices we make

“I’m not the teacher. I’m the test. I have nothing to teach you. No judgement to hand down.”
― Cassondra Windwalker, Idle Hands: The devil is in the details in the haunting novel about the choices we make

“Not everyone wants to be a boring, miserable little worm who does nothing but work till he crawls back into the ground and dies. Some of us actually want to live!”
― Cassondra Windwalker, Parable of Pronouns

“Just to live, for a second, would be worth any death.”
― Cassondra Windwalker, Idle Hands

“Read all the existential poetry you want, but invite pleasure under the sheets.”
― Cassondra Windwalker, Idle Hands: The devil is in the details in the haunting novel about the choices we make

“You thought I was happy? Happy living in a halfway house and having to spend my only four hours of freedom with you? Do you have any idea what it is like to try and survive four hours with you?”
― Cassondra Windwalker, Parable of Pronouns

“It’s baffling to me, when your hours are already so short, that you discard as many as you do in the trash-heap of what isn’t.”
― Cassondra Windwalker, Idle Hands: The devil is in the details in the haunting novel about the choices we make

“but that’s because most of you have such a twisted sense of good and evil.”
― Cassondra Windwalker, Idle Hands: The devil is in the details in the haunting novel about the choices we make

“The Creator set you up with this notion that on some level, your life is about relationships. You gauge your own worth by how good a mother, a friend, a daughter, a worker you are. I offer a different perspective. I want to know you for your own sake.”
― Cassondra Windwalker, Idle Hands: The devil is in the details in the haunting novel about the choices we make