Dia Reeves Quotes

#1. Trust. Affection. Respect." I shoved her tainted after-school snack across the table. "It must be hard to think of qualities you don't possess.

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#2. She decided not to look him in the eyes ever again. It was too much like being shoved over the edge of a ravine.

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#3. He looked as shocked as if I'd asked him to masturbate in front of me.

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#4. I'm the Bonesaw Killer's daughter," she whispered, almost to herself. "Why would you ever think I was good?

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#5. Wanting to connect doesn't make you needy
it makes you human.

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#6. Real monsters eat you from the inside out.

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#7. I figured she wanted to get into it with me, some he's-my-man-so-step-off song and dance. If so, she would have to dance solo.
I don't do drama.

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#8. Wanna see the rest of my happy place?

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#9. Paulie looked thoughtful. 'Well don't use Elmer's glue,' he warned. 'it sure didn't work on the Blackberry.

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#10. You're like rottweilers - they protect you from burglars, but nothing protects you from them.

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#11. When Fancy still didn't answer, he took her hand, and with his red paintbrush, he wrote 'please' into her palm.

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#12. I'd give just about anything if I could make you care," he said. "Especially about me.

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#13. I wear my cool on the inside; that's why my hands are always so cold.

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#14. You need air. You need food. You don't need some beastly boy.

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#15. But what was the point of love if it didn't keep people from leaving you?

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#16. Love is a trap. Don't ever get caught.

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#17. You're like a doll I had when I was a kid. She was all stiched together and her head kept falling off, but I loved that doll. That's what you look like. Like somebody just loved you to death.

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#18. It disturbed me that he saw things in such black-and-white tones. I sure didn't. For me, the world was a confusion of color.

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#19. Even if you were Hannibal Lecter himself, around here you're nothing special.

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#20. Maybe thats why they hate us.For reminding them that innocence is just an illusion, we're dark and maggoty all the way down tp the bone.Everyone of us.

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#21. Fancy clipped a scrap of newsprint to her canvas and wrote, I don't have friends.
Ilan's hand covered hers briefly as he plucked the charcoal from her hand and wrote beneath her words, you have me.

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#22. Standing in fron of the doors of a cCatholic church when service is over is a good way to die young.

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#23. I don't even register on the freakometer.

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#24. If I had the power to resurrect, I'd use it on you." Now he was the one whispering. "There's an important part of you that's dead: the part that cares.

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#25. They can't even decide what flavor of crazy I am.

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#26. It's easier to be careful in dresses. You have to be or you end up flashing your underclothes or destroying beautiful fabric. Dresses force you to be on guard.

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#27. Holding on to a four-year-old boy wasn't weird, as it should have been. It was comforting. Like holding an incredibly sticky teddy bear.

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#28. 1821, I told him, noting mailboxes of castles and pirate ships and the street numbers painted on them. I had to fis hmy penlight from my pack to see the numbers; streetlights were scarce, and the sky bulged with low, sooty clouds instead of helpful moonlight.

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#29. Trying to understand Daddy is like trying to nail jelly to a tree.

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#30. Indecisiveness is a very unattractive trait in a man, especially when he's just a boy.

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#31. A herd of laughing kids zipped by the passenger-side window on Roller-blades. I hoped they never went from laughter to heartache as quickly as I had.

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#32. I caught her red-handed with her hands down his pants."
"You did not," Fancy told Madda sternly, with as much dignity as she was able. "It was just one hand.

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#33. But what if the monsters come?"
"Fancy." Kit looked away from the drama to stare at her sister, surprised. "We are the monsters.

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#34. People?" As though she'd never heard of such a thing. "They're like dolls. Plastic and shiny and fake.

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#35. I kissed him, and even though it hurt my mouth, I didn't mind; Wyatt's kisses were worth suffering over.

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#36. If I can't, then I'll paint the walls of her house red with my blood.

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#37. How did you get out of the suicide door?" Her disbelief was a living, pettable thing.
"Magic."
Her eyes narrowed. "There is no magic."
"Maybe not for you. But I'm from out of town.

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#38. When you had no one to vent to, everything stayed inside and festered like old meat in a hot fridge.

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#39. Humans are predators, not prey. Always remember that.

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#40. You ain't scared I'll kill you?
You already did. At the dark park. The suspense is gone.

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#41. The worst thing you can do is rest all your hopes on a wish. A granted wish doesn't equal a perfect life.

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#42. I remember you from the woods. Where's your sister?"
"She's busy. Sinning.

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#43. The red color infesting Wyatt's lure spread like licks of flame until the entire stretch of rattling glass was full of bloody-colored pinwheels throbbing like sick, misshapen hearts.

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#44. If you were left alone, you'd hate it. Loneliness gets old in a hurry

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#45. No, thanks. If I start wearing heels, boys will whistle at me when I walk by.

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#46. I do know you, Fancy. All about you. The problem is, you don't know about me.

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#47. Poison ivy and deer crap and rocks. Oh, my!

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#48. She was like the moon - part of her was always hidden away.

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#49. She tucked a five-dollar bill into my dress strap - like I was a stripper!

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#50. The rain echoed in the shadowy attic space and made me feel small and fragile, like a lace glove left behind on moving day - mateless and abandoned.

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#51. What the eyes don't see, the heart can't feel.

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#52. Emotional abuse is just as bad as physical abuse. Worse! You can heal broken bones; you can't heal a broken mind.

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#53. So ... you don't like dismembering?"
"No."
"Evisceration?"
"Not so much." He laughed like he thought she was joking. "I'm a dull sorta guy."
"Yeah, kinda.

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#54. I'd rather be miserable and free than happy and caged.

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#55. The rain hung from his earlobes like delicate jewelry.

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#56. I had the craziest idea that if I looked closely enough, maybe tilted his head toward the light, I'd be able to see into his brain.

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