Donna Cooner Quotes

#1. No glass slippers, just a glass heart shattering into a million slivers of regret.

Donna Cooner

#2. One must lose one's life in order to save it.

Federico Mangahas

#3. We pass Tinsley's Fried Chicken with the big sign that reads, TRY OUR BIG, JUICY BREASTS.

Donna Cooner

#4. I'm so much more than what you've made me.

Donna Cooner

#5. Politicians need citizens who will permit them to behave reasonably.

William Stafford

#6. Evidently you can dress me up, but you cant cover my scars.

Donna Cooner

#7. I loved you when you were three hundred and two pounds, and I love you now.
-Rat

Donna Cooner

#8. The hard thing about waiting is the not knowing how it's going to go. That's what makes me really crazy.

Donna Cooner

#9. I'm always aware of being observed. Always self-conscious. I'm evidently living my life with stage fright.

Donna Cooner

#10. I feel exposed. The camera is my nemesis. Right up there with mirrors.

Donna Cooner

#11. At midnight, Cinderella ran away from the ball, leaving behind glass slipper. The doors swing slowly close behind, shutting out the sound of the party, and I realize I've lost something far more important than a shoe. I've lost my best friend.

Donna Cooner

#12. Modesty should accompany youth.

Plautus

#13. Going back to California is not like going back to Vermont, or Chicago; Vermont and Chicago are relative constants, against which one measures one's own change. All that is constant about the California of my childhood is the rate at which it disappears.

Joan Didion

#14. I finally understand what it's like to be truly awake, and I never ever want to go back to sleep again.

Donna Cooner

#15. You have ink in your blood, boy, and no help for it. Books will never be just a business to you.

Rachel Caine

#16. Hopeless. Freak. Elephant. Pitiful

Donna Cooner

#17. Guilt sears instantly through my brain, but I don't stop walking away.

Donna Cooner

#18. This isn't the way the fairy-tale is supposed to end. Everyone knows that.

Donna Cooner

#19. It's like being on a tightrope stretched tightly between two skyscrapers - the past and the future.

Donna Cooner

#20. But hope is such a fragile flower in the rocky ground of my soul.

Donna Cooner

#21. Twin, sagging is seriously lame. It's so cliched gang-wannabe circa 1990s. Hotties should just say no to it.

P.C. Cast