Hayley > Hayley's Quotes

“I want to tell her that the only thing you get from walling yourself in is empty.”
― A.S. King, Please Ignore Vera Dietz

“I'm sorry, but I don't get it. If we're supposed to ignore everything that's wrong with our lives, then I can't see how we'll ever make things right.”
― A.S. King, Please Ignore Vera Dietz

“Isn't it funny how we live inside the lies we believe?”
― A.S. King, Please Ignore Vera Dietz

“Because with Charlie, nothing was ever easy. Everything was windswept and octagonal and finger-combed. Everything was difficult and odd, and the theme songs all had minor chords.”
― A.S. King, Please Ignore Vera Dietz

“I'd rather feel something for real than pretend it's not what it is.”
― A.S. King, Please Ignore Vera Dietz

“The thing you don't see while you're still there on Earth is how easy it is to change your mind. When you're in it and you're mixed up with feelings, assumptions, influences, and misconceptions, things seem completely impossible to change. From here, you see that change is as easy as flicking a light switch in your brain.”
― A.S. King, Please Ignore Vera Dietz

“Look at that, Vera.”
I tilt my head back and see a sky full of stars.
“Can you tell which one is me?” he asks.
I point to the brightest one.”
― A.S. King, Please Ignore Vera Dietz

“Hey - the whole freaking world was built from delusional optimism and folly. What makes you so special? We're all just making it up as we go along. No one really knows what they're doing. Anyone who tells you otherwise is talking out of their butt.”
― A.S. King, Please Ignore Vera Dietz

“But they keep saving me because they know I stand for something. They're just not sure what yet.
-The Pagoda”
― A.S. King, Please Ignore Vera Dietz

“I never asked her how she was, because I didn't really think about how she was. I just thought about what she thought of me.”
― A.S. King, Please Ignore Vera Dietz

“Maybe the adults around me were too cynical and old to do anything to help innocent people like Mrs. Kahn or Charlie, or the black kids who were called nigger at school, or the girls Tim Miller groped on the bus. Maybe they were numb enough to blame the system for things they were too lazy to change.”
― A.S. King, Please Ignore Vera Dietz

“There is nothing more disappointing than the coolest kid in the whole world turning drama queen on you.”
― A.S. King, Please Ignore Vera Dietz

“People believe it because people are stupid. Apparently, that’s adequate now.”
― A.S. King, Please Ignore Vera Dietz

“That Sindy. She was so damn smart. But I never told her that. I also never told her that I loved her, or that I loved the two little stretch marks she got from carrying Vera. Or that I loved that freckle on her forehead. I never told her that I loved her lasagna or that I thought her views on politics were clever. I just kept my mouth shut because I thought that made me safe.”
― A.S. King, Please Ignore Vera Dietz

“I can’t stop myself from reaching for the bottle that’s under my seat. I’ve gone all night without a sip, but it’s not about being addicted. It’s about being told what to do my whole life and doing it and then losing everything anyway.”
― A.S. King, Please Ignore Vera Dietz

“No patience. No kisses. No hugs. Just a tweezers and some rubbing alcohol, and a stinging sensation that never goes away.”
― A.S. King, Please Ignore Vera Dietz

“But I’m not just my genes, Dad.”
― A.S. King, Please Ignore Vera Dietz

“You're like an alcohol in my veins.”
― A.S. King, Please Ignore Vera Dietz

“Then, Valentine’s Day came. There was a dance, and balloons and flowers and cheaply made rings and all sorts of lame teddy bears and stuffed animals, as if teenagers can be wooed with the same shit as five-year-olds. It was the Dietzes’ most hated holiday of the year, too, because it dealt with the consumerization of something sacred. Mom and Dad had agreed never to buy each other anything on the day. It was a false, Hallmark holiday. A sham. A moneymaking sideshow for insecure couples who didn’t have true love. I agreed with this, for the most part.”
― A.S. King, Please Ignore Vera Dietz

“Could I ever respect myself again if I stooped to their level?”
― A.S. King, Please Ignore Vera Dietz

“She called it baggage. "You're scared to open your suitcases and see what your mother packed.”
― A.S. King, Please Ignore Vera Dietz

“Tell that guy to kiss my white vivacious ass. He never met me.”
― A.S. King, Please Ignore Vera Dietz

“Mom walked out on us, remember? Because she never got over her own baggage, not because of you or me, right?”
― A.S. King, Please Ignore Vera Dietz

“EVERYONE deserves to be happy. But no one gets there by freaking out or sulking or running. So. Here's a tissue. Clean yourself up and start back at the beginning.”
― A.S. King, Please Ignore Vera Dietz

“We're all just making it up as we go along. No one really knows what they're doing.”
― A.S. King, Please Ignore Vera Dietz

“Now it’s my turn. I am going to birth myself. I am going to be a better mother to me than she ever was. I’m going to stay faithful and stand up for myself. I am going to do more than send me fifty bucks on my birthday, and if I ever call myself on the phone, I’m going to act like I care, just a little, because I’m aware that I might need it. I will comb my own hair gently and never make myself get into bathwater that’s too hot. I am going to be the kind of mother who shows warmth.”
― A.S. King, Please Ignore Vera Dietz

“It didn't work. It didn't work because I knew not to give the best of myself to the worst of people.”
― A.S. King, Please Ignore Vera Dietz

“The trick is remembering that change is as easy as you make it. The trick is remembering that you are the boss of you.”
― A.S. King, Please Ignore Vera Dietz

“I can't believe I said it out loud. The truth doesn't set you free, you know. It makes you feel awkward and embarrassed and defenseless and red in the face and horrified and petrified and vulnerable. But free? I don't feel free. I feel like shit.”
― Melina Marchetta, Saving Francesca

“Comfort zones are overrated. They make you lazy.”
― Melina Marchetta, Saving Francesca