Top 44 Suzanne Palmieri Quotes
#1. We all gotta die, and we all gotta live with the things our dark sides do. People are afraid of their darkness, though. Spend their whole lives so scared of dyin' that they never get to live. Spend their whole lives pushin' down that darkness, until there ain't no light at all.
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#2. Everyone has a dark side. This is pure fact. I can see it like a shadow behind them all the time.
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#3. You're a girl on fire. And it seems to me, you been dousing those flames for years. Let yourself burn a little.
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#4. I can still feel them there. His lips on mine. His words in my ear that day.
Itsy, say you'll be my girl. My secret. Oh, please say it.
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#5. Sometimes it's the smallest secrets that hold the most hope, the most fun, the most danger.
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#6. The kitchen of the Big House was always one of my favorite places. Airy and sunny. No modern cabinets or anything like that. Just a room full of windows, set into wise, worn walls.
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#7. You'll be just fine," he said. "Listen to your heart and mind together, that's the trick. Not one or the other, both.
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#8. No matter how silly I think it all is, society is still society and we are not free of the burdens of hate.
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#9. The kitchen door, painted red from the day Naomi moved in, and a geranium, also red, outside on the stoop, gave the whole area a feeling of whimsy.
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#10. When I was little, I thought it was terribly romantic, being half stardust, half Southern magnolia.
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#11. What did you say to me Itsy? The day when you broke your silence?
Itsy shrugged and shuffled back into her own apartment.
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#13. The air between them began to settle into a silence. Awkward, yet softly exciting. Like an unexpected snow day.
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#14. You really are a chameleon, aren't you? Fitting in wherever you go.
"Aren't we all?" she said ...
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#15. Cooper smelled damage a mile away. He knew she'd never run. She'd never tell.
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#16. Life," said Simone St. James ... "is stitched together from a series of mistakes, some little, some big, like the patches on the clothes we wore growin' up, you know
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#17. The truth is, time marches on and you have two choices: You move forward, come what may, and you experience all the sour and sweet things that fly at you from around corners, or you sit still. Don't sit still.
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#18. The only problem is the heart is quiet. It takes a very special kind of person to hear what the heart says. Most can't hear it at all and they have to guess. There are a lot of people walking around just guessing.
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#19. Too much work, I guess, to figure out each person as a whole instead of parts of this and parts of that.
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#20. Trees down south have a difference to them, a subtle, slinking movement, mile by mile- a gracefulness, a swagger. Lanky trees stretching out their wiry thin, Spanish moss-covered branches, moss that sways and beckons ... come here, come here, it says.
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#21. You. You are standing in your own way. And that means whatever it is scares you. It won't forever ... but take your time. Nothing good was ever rushed.
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#23. All the Amore siblings had The Sight in varying degrees, and its fickleness got us into trouble sometimes.
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#25. Pain is like a map, I guess. But I found my shortcut on my "map of the heart." Shortcuts always take longer, don't they?
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#26. I'd forgotten so many important things. I'd stolen away my own past. It made me feel like a coward.
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#27. Love should never be a secret and it should never, ever be forgotten.
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#29. It isn't only trouble that comes up behind you, Mama, it's sorrow too.
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#31. Now, Simone, I'm a witch, remember? There's not much I don't know just by looking at you. And you know what I see when I look at you?'
Simone walked out the door before she could finish, only hearing the steely hush of Millie's voice add, 'Nothing.
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#32. Magic is a funny term,' she'd say. 'There is nothing supernatural about the earth. As long as you know what does what.
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#33. Do you love her?' she asked him.
'Always have,' he said.
'Then why in the world would you leave her alone?
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#34. Laughter layered the walls and clung to the dust mites, making them sparkle like lightning bugs in the daytime.
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#36. [P]eople think that in order for something to be frightening, it has to be dark, musty, and full of cobwebs and secrets. That's a lie of epic proportion. The scariest, most unexplainable things happen in the bright light of day. And just when you least expect.
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#37. I wouldn't want to live that life. I choose the pain. I chose the pain.
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#38. I like the dark," she said. "Ain't it just like a big blue blanket wrappin' us up with comfort?
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#39. Regular people have such a hard time listening to the low hum of instinct.
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#40. Father and Ivy used to go off on their excursions, never knowing that I was relieved when they were gone. That I'd wear my nightgowns all day and read from dawn till dusk.
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#41. Sugar, the things we hold closest to our hearts are the things we just can't seem to see. Jackson Whalen
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#42. I don't pay no mind to rules. Seems to me, rules are things made up by scared people too afraid to die, so they can't live. Or too lazy to make their own decisions. Rules are for breakin', as far as I'm concerned.
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#43. Spring came slowly to the Bronx with a lot of rain & soft water-color tree blossoms.
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