Veronica Rodriguez > Veronica's Quotes

“Something most people don't realize until they're older. But everyone is a little weird. Some people hide it more than others, but it's true, Everyone is weird.”
― Riley Sager, Middle of the Night

“Too much of childhood is spent being lied to by adults because they think it'll spare your feelings.”
― Riley Sager, Middle of the Night

“Each time, I’m struck by how strange it is to see someone I think of as forever young looking thoroughly middle-aged. It’s the same jarring feeling I sometimes get when I look in the mirror.”
― Riley Sager, Middle of the Night

“Hakuna matata, dude.”
― Riley Sager, Middle of the Night

“So I shouldn't care that I'm a little weird?

All you should care about is being yourself, no matter who that person is. Some people might not like you for who you are, but a whole bunch of people will. I promise.”
― Riley Sager, Middle of the Night

“The world is often brutal and cruel, and it only seems to get harder as time marches forward. The pressures and dangers kids face today are so much worse than when I was that age.”
― Riley Sager, Middle of the Night

“Whenever you find the ball in your yard, it means you need to come over and find me.”
― Riley Sager, Middle of the Night

“Several scenarios pop into my head, starting with the worst, because that’s my default mode.”
― Riley Sager, Middle of the Night

“Suspicion has a way of breaking through even the strongest barriers.”
― Riley Sager, Middle of the Night

“DEATH IS MERELY AN ILLUSION”
― Riley Sager, Middle of the Night

“Something most people don’t realize until they’re older. But everyone is a little weird. Some people hide it more than others, but it’s true. Everyone is weird.”
― Riley Sager, Middle of the Night

“I exhale, releasing the breath I hadn’t known I was holding in.”
― Riley Sager, Middle of the Night

“When someone shows a book this much love, they deserve a copy just for them.”
― Riley Sager, Middle of the Night

“There were no villains in this story. Nor were there heroes.
Just a neighborhood of flawed people, some more than others.”
― Riley Sager , Middle of the Night

“In Johnny, he noticed a sensitivity most teenage boys lack. Unfortunately, those who are the most sensitive are sometimes also the most troubled. Which Johnny was. When he overdosed, it was a shock to all of us.”
― Riley Sager, Middle of the Night

“In this world, weird kids are bully magnets, and she fears life will only get worse for Billy if he doesn’t lower his freak flag a little bit. “This world gets crazier every”
― Riley Sager, Middle of the Night

“While I’d assumed that was the case, it feels different when that assumption is confirmed. Because deep down, I never wanted to believe it. For decades I’d harbored faint hopes and what-ifs. Now that I know I was wrong all this time, it feels like I’m floating.”
― Riley Sager, Middle of the Night

“worry is a by-product of love.”
― Riley Sager, Middle of the Night

“Life is hard. There’s no point denying it. The world is often brutal and cruel, and it only seems to get harder as time marches forward. The pressures and dangers kids face today are so much worse than when I was that age. I”
― Riley Sager, Middle of the Night

“I would kill for you, and I have. I would do it again, every damn day. I’d turn myself inside out for you. I would die for you. I don’t just like you, Sloane, and you fucking know it.”
― Brynne Weaver, Butcher & Blackbird

“You have never been unlovable. You were just waiting for someone who will love you for who you are, not for who they want you to be. I can do that, if you'll let me.”
― Brynne Weaver, Butcher & Blackbird

“And sometimes the best things come out of the fire.”
― Brynne Weaver, Butcher & Blackbird

“Something caught your eye, pretty boy?” I whisper.  “Yes,” he says, his voice pained. “God, yes, Sloane. All of you.”
― Brynne Weaver, Butcher & Blackbird

“Maybe that’s why I like you,” he says with a wink.”
― Brynne Weaver, Butcher & Blackbird

“This man. Sometimes it feels as if he’ll never stop cracking my heart to fit more of himself inside.”
― Brynne Weaver, Butcher & Blackbird

“You are the thing I most look forward to, Rowan.”
― Brynne Weaver, Butcher & Blackbird

“Being a serial killer who kills serial killers is a great hobby…”
― Brynne Weaver, Butcher & Blackbird

“I miss the way he makes me feel like I'm not an aberration, but unique.”
― Brynne Weaver, Butcher & Blackbird

“Maybe grief is love imploding. Or maybe it’s love expanding. I don’t know. I just know you can’t create loss to preempt loss because it doesn’t work that way. So you might as well love as much as you can. And as recklessly. Like it’s your last resort, because it is.”
― Catherine Newman, Sandwich

“Despair laced through with so much incredible beauty. We just keep showing up for each other. Even through the mystery of other people’s grief. What else is there?”
― Catherine Newman, Sandwich