Lilah Pace Quotes

#1. They have no idea how deep this goes for me. To them it's a tremor, not an earthquake.

Lilah Pace

#2. I meant - the world breaks so many of us. Maybe all of us, in the end. But everyone starts out like this. Untouched, happy. Perfect. And we put all our hopes on children, all the hopes we can't believe in for ourselves any longer.

Lilah Pace

#3. Sometimes life is like a video game. When things get harder, and the obstacles get tougher, it just means you leveled up.

Lilah Pace

#4. A piece of art that speaks to you can open windows in a room you hadn't even known was dark.

Lilah Pace

#5. Still, one of the great truths of life is that any situation can be improved with coffee.

Lilah Pace

#6. When will that be? After all your secrets are told. So, never. My illusions have been overshadowed by harsh, cold fact.

Lilah Pace

#7. The September night is as sultry as July, and the sound of cicadas shimmers louder, softer, then louder again. It's the sound of heat itself, of summer bearing down on you without mercy.

Lilah Pace

#8. Mines lie buried just beneath the surface of every sentence my mother says.

Lilah Pace

#9. It's so hard to believe that someone might want me - all of me - fucked-up sexual desire, tangled family history, book-hoarding tendencies, everything.

Lilah Pace

#10. A macchiato can only solve your problems if you let it, sweetie.

Lilah Pace

#11. We don't get all better; we don't fix everything that's broken. We just learn how to work around the broken bits. How to do the best we can with what we have, and who we are.

Lilah Pace

#12. The fantasy comes from that, and from a culture that eroticizes violence against women, and leftover puritanical guilt about sex that tells us we're not allowed to choose it and want it for ourselves, and from God only knows where else.

Lilah Pace

#13. Sometimes what looks like generosity can be control.You think you're being swept up in this big romance, but really it's all about separating you from your own life.

Lilah Pace

#14. Sometimes "Southern hospitality" is just another term for hypocrisy.

Lilah Pace

#15. Once again that mixture of fear and desire surges through my veins, the same kind of fire I imagine injected heroin must feel like - an agony so sweet you'd do anything for it.

Lilah Pace

#16. I've come to realize that speaking the truth can be a form of love. Maybe listening can be too.

Lilah Pace

#17. How did this man with the power to terrify me also become the one person who truly makes me feel safe?

Lilah Pace

#18. It's your secret. A piece of your life that's yours to share or not to share, as you see fit. You never have to tell a soul if you don't want to.

Lilah Pace