Top 63 Laura Wiess Quotes

#1. There are only the three of us and our dark, burgeoning desires
I am so afraid of what comes next

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#2. No step is a safe one, so it's safer to take none at all.

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#3. It's just that instead of erupting and annihilating our tormentors, we destroy ourselves instead.

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#4. 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.

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#5. And while we're talking about being used and abused, you should know that there are some things you tell and some things you handle by yourself, the best you can.

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#6. So sometimes what takes you down can be used to raise you up again.

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#7. I am shrunken and shriveled inside, a rotten chestnut hidden beneath a deceptively smooth shell

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#8. Physical imperfections have always offended him, but apparently my bad hygiene wasn't repellent enough. Perhaps Ms. Mues's full-blown adulthood will be.

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#9. Rape is not a mistake! He did it on purpose, over and over again because he wanted to, because he off on it-

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#10. My mother plants her hands on her hips, peevish. "Is that the best welcome you can come up with? Why don't you come over here and give your father a hug?" Hug him? Touch him? How can she even suggest it?

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#11. She smiles and slips her arm through his. Her tread is light and bouncy and I can almost see the ghost of her cheerleader's ponytail bobbing at the back of her head.

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#12. No roll in the hay is worth losing what I've got.

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#13. Why should I just sit around hoping it happens when maybe I can do something to make it happen?

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#14. It's okay. Don't push her, Sharon.

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#15. Never say God - and the Beatles - don't have great timing.

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#16. I tore the crusts off my grilled cheese sandwich and set them aside to throw out for the birds. Their motives were pure
hunger, thirst, shelter
and they didn't mind leftovers.

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#17. But when I looked for good, evil came; and when I waited for light, darkness came. My lyre is turned to mourning, and my pipe to the voice of those who weep. (Job)

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#18. 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.

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#19. 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.

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#20. If I allow my gaze to travel higher-which I won't-I'll see the solid gold basketball charm on a chain that my mother gave him for his eighteenth birthday nestled in his coarse, whorled chest hair.
My front teeth throb as the memory of the charm bangs against them.

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#21. 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.

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#22. 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.

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#23. Hate the behavior, not the individual.

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#24. And of how we never really know someone, no matter how much we want to believe that we do.

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#25. this is no place for miracles

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#26. The distant threat of eternal damnation pales in comparison to the immediate gratification of corrupting young skin.

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#27. somebody chokes, it's always on a hunk of steak.

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#28. 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.

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#29. And I don't want to hurt anymore. I want to be someone who makes it through

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#30. Hell no. You're what saved you, kid. Not divine intervention.

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#31. That was the attorney. He said the doctors are very pleased with your father's progress and that his behavior has been exemplary-'
'Well, that's stupid.' My reaction was rude and raw. 'Of course he's been a model prisoner, Mom. There aren't any kids to molest in prison.

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#32. After school I all but ran to Gran's and it was funny how even with her so sick, being with her could still make me feel safe.

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#33. What are you doing?" I say hoarsely as he trails a finger from the beauty mark on my rib cage to the one on my hip, leaving a path of goose bumps in his wake.
"Connecting the dots," he murmurs with a wicked look. "Uh-oh, you made me lose my place. Now I have to start all over again ...

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#34. 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.

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#35. Sometimes the hardest people to love are the ones who need it the most.

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#36. How can you make someone love you when they won't? How long are you supposed to keep trying?

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#37. I started wondering about life stories, how each one of us has one that isn't apparent at first glance, what we tell the world about ourselves and what we deliberately tuck away and never reveal.

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#38. Oh, baby girl," he says with a sigh. "I am so, so sorry.

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#39. All emotion receded, pulled out like low tide, leaving my brain an empty ocean bottom

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#40. Tomorrow belongs to betrayal. Today is mine and I don't want to waste it being afraid.

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#41. We mutinied quietly, using every lesson we'd been taught by every person who'd ever used us for their own benefit.

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#42. Ignorance of the outcome doesn't exempt you from the consequences.

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#43. Won't say anything, won't burst into tears and buckle under the weight of this last, awful straw.

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#44. Real life isn't like the movies. The victim doesn't usually win. She just endures.

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#45. 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.

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#46. A victim soul is a pious individual chosen to absorb the pain and suffering of others.

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#47. Knowing deep inside some ghosts are too cruel to question

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#48. Being user friendly doesn't mean you're going to be loved.

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#49. Oh, there's a wholesome outing.' I say. 'Let's all skip down to the cop shop to register my daddy as a pervert. What fun.

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#50. Tonight is when the obscene becomes the acceptable.

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#51. My father's release date was given to all the local cops, school administrators, and youth group leaders.

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#52. 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.

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#53. He shook his head and gave this laugh, a good laugh, and just looked at me. "You always this happy?"
"No," I said, laughing. "It's you. Every time I see you, I just ... I don't know. You make me smile.

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#54. The ache starts in my chest and spreads through my veins. The abuse I can handle; it's the happiness that cripples.

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#55. My biggest mistake is in believing there are limits to how bad it can get.

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#56. We're not afraid of the dark. Our nightmares were born on sultry, summer afternoons.

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#57. The law says they aren't allowed to share the info with anyone else, but of course they did - who wouldn't? - so now we're marked for life. His picture is even posted on the New Jersey Sex Offender Internet Registry.

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#58. 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.

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#59. There are worse things in life to be than fat, and one of them is ignorant. Another is prejudiced. Another is deliberately cruel.

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#60. 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.

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#61. Be good. Be a nice girl. Don't ruin our happy family.

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#62. All you really have...is now.

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#63. They brought along a young man named Andy who wants very much to see you. She steps aside to let him through.
I tuck my hair back behind my ears.
Meet his shining gaze and break into a smile.
He is so tall.

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