Veronica Perez > Veronica Perez's Quotes

“Oh, I do not want to like him so much. Lust, yes. Not like. I don’t know him at all, but in this gesture I feel the heart of a lion, big and inclusive and wise. It tips open the closed doors of my life.”
― Barbara O'Neal, When We Believed in Mermaids

“And then I forget to keep my guard up or shield myself with cynicism, because his mouth is as lush as plums, and he shifts slightly to fit us together more perfectly.”
― Barbara O'Neal, When We Believed in Mermaids

“A girl without a mother who protects her is a girl at the mercy of the world.”
― Barbara O'Neal, When We Believed in Mermaids

“Every girl needs a mother who protects her with a savage fury.”
― Barbara O'Neal, When We Believed in Mermaids

“Your quest is powerful. You needn’t apologize for the space it takes.”
― Barbara O'Neal, When We Believed in Mermaids

“In the whisper of the waves, I hear your name In the caress of the sunlight, I feel your lips In the hands of the wind, I feel your touch Everywhere, in everything, there you are I will not forget you, sweet love.”
― Barbara O'Neal, When We Believed in Mermaids

“Love does not need time.”
― Barbara O'Neal, When We Believed in Mermaids

“When I saw you, I recognized you, like I’ve been waiting, all this time, for you to show up. And there you were.”
― Barbara O'Neal, When We Believed in Mermaids

“I really do love him like a being created just for me.”
― Barbara O'Neal, When We Believed in Mermaids

“I sigh, fear starting to dig its claws into my heart. But I have also become someone who can fight for the good in her life. A woman who doesn’t run from things.”
― Barbara O'Neal, When We Believed in Mermaids

“Life is sometimes just wretched; that’s all.”
― Barbara O'Neal, When We Believed in Mermaids

“Artists make things and play characters because they want an escape into faraway worlds, and escape was exactly what I needed. I wanted to live inside my dreams, my wonderful fictitious world, and never think about reality if I could help it.”
― Britney Spears, The Woman in Me

“I wanted to hide, but I also wanted to be seen. Both things could be true.”
― Britney Spears, The Woman in Me

“If you stood up for me when I couldn’t stand up for myself: from the bottom of my heart, thank you.”
― Britney Spears, The Woman in Me

“In that moment, I made peace with my family—by which I mean that I realized I never wanted to see them again, and I was at peace with that.”
― Britney Spears, The Woman in Me

“You can’t fuck with a woman who knows how to pray.”
― Britney Spears, The Woman in Me

“The cheaters are the ones who scream and yell, the ones who try to place blame on the other person.”
― Ellen Marie Wiseman, The Lost Girls of Willowbrook

“It was just easier to believe in the boogeyman than to acknowledge that there were so many evil people in the world.”
― Ellen Marie Wiseman, The Lost Girls of Willowbrook

“A mother, especially, was supposed to love and protect her children to the end of her days.”
― Ellen Marie Wiseman, The Lost Girls of Willowbrook

“The stakes are high, and if you lose, it might come for you in ways you’d never expect.”
― Madeline Pendleton, I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt: Everything I Wish I Never Had to Learn About Money

“In 2021, 73 percent of Americans ranked financial issues as their number one cause of stress—above politics, work, or family—and these numbers are highest in Generation Z and Millennials, with over 80 percent of people born after 1980 reporting that they find their finances to be a source of stress.”
― Madeline Pendleton, I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt: Everything I Wish I Never Had to Learn About Money

“The minimum wage today is worth 31 percent less than it was in 1968. By contrast, housing prices have more than doubled when adjusted for inflation.”
― Madeline Pendleton, I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt: Everything I Wish I Never Had to Learn About Money

“I’d say Fresno is a hidden gem, but I’m not sure how many people would consider it a gem at all.”
― Madeline Pendleton, I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt: Everything I Wish I Never Had to Learn About Money

“Fresno is a sprawling city of over half a million people, situated in the middle of two long, straight, boring highways that cut up through the middle of California—the I-5 and the CA-99.”
― Madeline Pendleton, I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt: Everything I Wish I Never Had to Learn About Money

“I used to walk to that gas station all the time,”
― Madeline Pendleton, I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt: Everything I Wish I Never Had to Learn About Money

“If capitalism is a joke, maybe Fresno is the punch line.”
― Madeline Pendleton, I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt: Everything I Wish I Never Had to Learn About Money

“My dad is the kind of guy everyone in town knows. In the Tower District, we have a term for that: “Fresno Famous.”
― Madeline Pendleton, I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt: Everything I Wish I Never Had to Learn About Money

“Who wasn’t a drug dealer?” she replied with a laugh. “I think we were all drug dealers back then.” The answer satisfied me. Who was I—Nancy Reagan? The War on Drugs was a war on the poor, on people of color, on anyone who didn’t fit in with the moral majority; the War on Drugs was a war on us.”
― Madeline Pendleton, I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt: Everything I Wish I Never Had to Learn About Money

“The rich were doing whatever they wanted, so why shouldn’t we?”
― Madeline Pendleton, I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt: Everything I Wish I Never Had to Learn About Money

“Don’t feel bad about owing money to a bank. They’re evil bloodsucking mega-corporations and they don’t care about us.”
― Madeline Pendleton, I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt: Everything I Wish I Never Had to Learn About Money