Laura Wiess > Quotes

“I don't know how you say good-bye to whom and what you love. I don't know a painless way to do it, don't know the words to capture a heart so full and a longing so intense.”
― Laura Wiess, How It Ends

“Sometimes the hardest people to love are the ones who need it the most.”
― Laura Wiess, Ordinary Beauty

“That's what innocence is, you know. A blissful oblivion of what's coming, of what you'll lose and what you'll gain, and what kind of person you'll grow up to be.”
― Laura Wiess, Leftovers

“Time is not your friend. It doesn't care if you live fast or die slow, if you are or if you aren't. It was here before you arrived and it will go on after you leave. Time doesn't care who wins or who loses, if your life span is full or empty, honorable or shameful. Time is indifferent. It simply doesn't give a shit.”
― Laura Wiess, Leftovers

“See, guys freak out. They hit critical mass and blast nuclear, white-hot anger out over the world like walking flamethrowers. But girls freak in. They absorb the pain and bitterness and keep right on sponging it up until they drown.”
― Laura Wiess, Leftovers

“Where is home?
Home is where the heart can laugh without shyness.
Home is where the heart's tears can dry at their own pace.”
― Laura Wiess, How It Ends

“Ignorance of the outcome doesn't exempt you from the consequences.”
― Laura Wiess, Leftovers

“The ache starts in my chest and spreads through my veins. The abuse I can handle; it's the happiness that cripples.”
― Laura Wiess, Such a Pretty Girl

“All you really have...is now.”
― Laura Wiess, How It Ends

“We wait to be rescued, but for whatever reason, no one comes. We figure that if no one protects us then we must not be worth protecting so we become prey and are easily picked off. Our wounded, kicked-puppy gazes attract sly predators and we sell ourselves for clearance sale prices, mistaking screwing for caring.”
― Laura Wiess, Such a Pretty Girl

“How can you make someone love you when they won't? How long are you supposed to keep trying?”
― Laura Wiess, Ordinary Beauty

“A victim soul is a pious individual chosen to absorb the pain and suffering of others.”
― Laura Wiess, Such a Pretty Girl

“It's just that instead of erupting and annihilating our tormentors, we destroy ourselves instead.”
― Laura Wiess, Leftovers

“What's the point of obsessing over cholesterol or bike helmets or even cigarettes when the biggest threats to our children are being released back into society every day? Yes, maybe 'some' of them have reformed, but what about the ones who haven't? Doesn't anyone realize that one 'touch', one 'time' will destroy a child's life ten times faster than a pack-a-day habit?”
― Laura Wiess, Such a Pretty Girl

“There are worse things in life to be than fat, and one of them is ignorant. Another is prejudiced. Another is deliberately cruel.”
― Laura Wiess, Ordinary Beauty

“We mutinied quietly, using every lesson we’d been taught by every person who’d ever used us for their own benefit.”
― Laura Wiess, Leftovers

“Now, I learned a long time ago how to be quiet on the outside while I'm freaking on the inside. How to turn away like I don't see all the things that need to be seen, just to keep peace. How to lie low and act like I want nothing, expect nothing, and hope for nothing so I don't become more trouble than I'm worth. I'm five months short of eighteen and I know how to be cursed and ignored and left behind, how to swallow a thousand tears and ignore a thousand delibarate cruelties, but it's two in the morning on New Year's Eve and I'm mad and scared and bone tired and really, really sick of acting like I'm grateful to be staying on a hairy, sagging, dog-stained couch in a junky, mildewed trailer with a fat, dangerous, volatile drunk who sweats stale beer and wallows in his own wastewater, and who doesn't think there's one thing wrong with taking his crap life out on his dog, who comes bellying back for forgiveness every single time, no matter how rotten the treatment-”
― Laura Wiess, Ordinary Beauty

“Tomorrow belongs to betrayal. Today is mine and I don't want to waste it being afraid.”
― Laura Wiess, Such a Pretty Girl

“Yeah, I know I've changed. Nothing gets to me anymore.
Well, okay, except for stuff in the past. Back then I was all innocent and trusting and didn't know anything. Now I know plenty and you can't fucking touch me.”
― Laura Wiess, Leftovers

“In my family, you can rot to hell on the inside as long as you’re flawless on the outside, which is really sick, but also hard to unlearn.”
― Laura Wiess, Such a Pretty Girl

“How about giving your old man a break here, huh, Chirp?"

"Chirp is dead," I hear myself say and watch the flat words destroy his pleasure. "You killed her, and now you have to deal with me because I'm what's left.”
― Laura Wiess, Such a Pretty Girl

“Hate the behavior, not the individual.”
― Laura Wiess, Ordinary Beauty

“Meredith's a big girl. She knows how babies are made, don't you, Mer?"

I nod, numb and weary. "'Course I do. Same guy that taught you taught me.”
― Laura Wiess, Such a Pretty Girl

“We're not afraid of the dark. Our nightmares were born on sultry, summer afternoons.”
― Laura Wiess, Leftovers

“We have babies because we want them to love us, to make us important, but the only make us tired and fat and stinking of spit up because they're babies, not saviors. Their fathers leave us, sick of crap and sour milk, sweatpants and tears.
But the babies still need all of us, only there isn't anything left to give because we based our worth on the lowlifes who knocked us up and around.
So our babies end up screwed up and screwed with because not we're single again, too, so we're bringing home guys who secretly like pink satin baby skin more than our silvery stretch marks. We don't see what we should see because having anyone is till supposedly better than being alone.”
― Laura Wiess, Such a Pretty Girl

“Maybe it's true that shared trauma brings people closer together-a common hardship, a battle to survive-because when times are quiet people relax and go their own separate ways. They're lulled into believing they've got everything under control and don't need what they did before.”
― Laura Wiess, Leftovers

“And I don't want to hurt anymore. I want to be someone who makes it through”
― Laura Wiess, Such a Pretty Girl

“You can't come wandering around in at all hours of the night looking like you've been-"

"Raped?" "Not to worry, Estertown's been safe for three years now, Dad.”
― Laura Wiess, Such a Pretty Girl

“Hell no. You're what saved you, kid. Not divine intervention.”
― Laura Wiess, Such a Pretty Girl

“I know the grim probability of my own future.
The odds are high that the best of me has already been ripped away and that id I don't keep hold of myself I will lose what's left.”
― Laura Wiess, Such a Pretty Girl