Susie Tate > Quotes

“Love is blind but jealousy has 20-20 vision,”
― Susie Tate, Sticks and Stones

“Anger begins with madness and ends with regret”
― Susie Tate, Sticks and Stones

“Storytellers change the world, love,” he’d said. “There’s nothing as powerful as a good story told well.”
― Susie Tate, Daydreamer

“Don’t ever let someone who does not know your value dictate your worth,’ Goodie told her. ‘You and your daughter are worth ten of him.”
― Susie Tate, Goodnight

“Don't listen to him. The last thing you want to be is normal.”
― Susie Tate, Daydreamer

“It can feel slightly scary to trust people, Felix. But if you won't take the risk, you'll never be truly happy. You have to live life with an open heart.”
― Susie Tate, Daydreamer

“This was how I won. Living this unperfect life surrounded by love was my victory.”
― Susie Tate, Unperfect

“You know that I eat your custard creams,” I whispered, mortified. He chuckled. “Lottie, you eat about three packets a week. Who do you think makes sure there’s a steady supply?”
― Susie Tate, Gold Digger

“Somehow if I built you your perfect room, if I made this house somewhere you'd want to be, then maybe, maybe you'd want to be here. With me.”
― Susie Tate, Daydreamer

“Yaz, why do I have a stone for recharging vaginas in my house?” Max asked, which I thought was a reasonable question.”
― Susie Tate, Unperfect

“You only love me if it serves your purposes – if I’m helping your family, if I keep my unpopular opinions to myself. Your love is conditional. I’ve had limits and conditions put on love my whole life and I’ve had enough of it. I’d rather be alone.”
― Susie Tate, Gold Digger

“Minimalism always freaked me out slightly. I mean, where's all your stuff? I was way more of a cosy knick-knack type of girl.”
― Susie Tate, Daydreamer

“That was part of my problem. It wasn't always easy for me to identify my emotions and label them for what they were. To an outside observer, it might have even seemed like I felt too little, and that I was unaffected by most things.”
― Susie Tate, Outlier

“I’m sorry, but it was over the minute you wouldn’t listen to me and threw me away. I can’t live like your mother. I can’t tolerate a man like your father.”
― Susie Tate, Daydreamer

“He’s your family. Family is important. You’ve got all these threads between you in families, weaving in and out, strengthening you all as a whole, giving everyone a safety net, a sense of belonging. Don’t risk cutting any of the threads. Not when your sister could be the one to fall through the hole it creates.”
― Susie Tate, Gold Digger

“Silence had seemed to be the best option for me. Anything I said was usually met with irritation or outright hostility,”
― Susie Tate, Outlier

“I can’t live like your mother. I can’t tolerate a man like your father.”
― Susie Tate, Daydreamer

“Your cat is strangely bossy, and you’re weirdly deferential.”
― Susie Tate, Unwanted

“So I just re-read them whilst I read other books, sort of like literary palate cleansers.”
― Susie Tate, Daydreamer

“Men like that, they try to take a piece of you,” Mum said softly. “You stay whole though. Don’t let him steal anything from you.” Her voice became fierce then. “It’s not his to take. Understand me?”
― Susie Tate, Outlier

“Janet, it’s been an absolute displeasure. I’ll be in touch about your eviction.”
― Susie Tate, Outlier

“Hayley’s smile got bigger, and my chest tightened. I decided then and there that making this little girl smile was going to be my new favourite pastime.”
― Susie Tate, Gold Digger

“Lottie and Ollie were two of my favourite people. Just because I couldn’t express emotion in the normal way, didn’t mean I didn’t feel it. If anything, I felt too much, and I’d been devastated by their unhappiness, and my inability to do anything helpful to heal the rift.”
― Susie Tate, Outlier

“All I wanted in that moment was him. All the other turmoil in my mind was silenced, which was extremely rare for me. But all I could feel was him; all I could focus on was him.”
― Susie Tate, Outlier

“When I did place my hand in his and his strong fingers closed over mine, I had the weirdest feeling. The only way I can describe it is that at that moment, with my hand in his, I felt as if everything was right.”
― Susie Tate, Gold Digger

“He,” the little girl said, pointing in Jamie’s face and scrunching her nose, “stepped on Alan with his humongous feet.” Libby’s gaze dropped down to a now loosely held Alan, then moved up to Jamie’s face, and if anything she grew even paler. “She kicked me,” was all Jamie could think to say as he straightened up.”
― Susie Tate, Beg, Borrow or Steal

“Pain is just a chemical process. You don’t have to focus on it. You can choose to ignore it.”
― Susie Tate, Unperfect

“As his eyes travelled back to the new guy’s face, he did a double take. There was lipstick smeared all over his mouth. Katie hadn’t been wearing any lipstick, had she?”
― Susie Tate, Beyond Repair

“Mum,” she snapped, “I’ve got to go.” “Oh! Of course, go, go. Sweets, I’m not sure that your pancakes are the best choice to make him for breakfast. Better maybe to ease him into your cooking skills. Some toast might be–”
― Susie Tate, Beg, Borrow or Steal

“Life is ten per cent what happens to you and ninety percent how you react to it. Don’t waste yours looking back for what you’ve lost. Move on. Life isn’t meant to be lived backwards.”
― Susie Tate, Anything But Easy