Vicki Pettersson QUOTES

2 " ...lovers, even those who are married, always exist autonomously of one another, no matter how close they are or how long they've known each other. That's why jealously can flare in even the most intimate relationships.
Because you know that at some basic level this person exists separately from you. No mater how close you are, the landscape of their life is always tinted a different hue than your own." - Hunter to Joanna "

― Vicki Pettersson , The Neon Graveyard (Signs of the Zodiac, #6)

4 " What would become of me if I was never truly seen again?" - Joanna "

― Vicki Pettersson , The Neon Graveyard (Signs of the Zodiac, #6)

6 " Just because someone tried to make you into a victim didn’t mean that’s what you had to be. "

― Vicki Pettersson , The Scent of Shadows (Signs of the Zodiac, #1)

8 " There's this mental illness, right? It's called 'anhedonia.' It means 'without pleasure.' You can look it up, though all you really need to do is look around." She motioned to the door the other women had disappeared through, and to the world at large. "A good deal of people, mostly women, spend their entire lives in this state. It's a sort of half-death. But if you recognize this, you can fix it...You focus on bliss. Small pleasures. Fill your day with as many as you can fit into twenty-four hours. You devote every possible moment not to fulfilling another person-a man-but yourself."-Suzanne
"Sounds hedonistic"- Joanna
"But once you can do this, you start attracting everyone to you. You dont need compare yourself to some other girl, no matter how young or firm or perky she is.....Trust me. A woman like this, one at her best? We're the color of the world. We're the light and the beauty. So focus on your pleasure, and the man you want can't help but realize...that he may be a prince...but your a goddess.-Suzanne "

― Vicki Pettersson , City of Souls (Signs of the Zodiac, #4)

10 " I didn't know his middle name or his favorite color, but I knew how his thoughts felt caressing my mind. The bright tang of his adrenaline coursing under my skin. The force of his heart, strong and rhythmic and a bit sad, pumping within my own chest. "

― Vicki Pettersson , The Taste of Night (Signs of the Zodiac, #2)

12 " People do lie to themselves, and they get away with it because every action affirms and reaffirms their perception. That's the power of the human mind. that's the power of thought, which is nothing more- and nothing less- than energy. And when you have a particularly powerful mind, extraordinary things can happen. "

― Vicki Pettersson , The Taste of Night (Signs of the Zodiac, #2)

14 " I quickly found myself in the center of the room, trussed up to a sturdy, high-backed chair, which Joaquin happily assured me was an original Louis the Fourteenth. Oh goody. I'd hate to die bound to something from IKEA. "

― Vicki Pettersson , The Taste of Night (Signs of the Zodiac, #2)

16 " The only bone in my body he ever loved was his. "

― Vicki Pettersson , The Taken (Celestial Blues, #1)

18 " 'Everything has its place. Let in only those things that are greatly desired, no more and no less. That's how to make sense of the world, and the only real way to achieve happiness.' "

― Vicki Pettersson , The Taken (Celestial Blues, #1)

20 " 'You love her without willing it or wanting it, and that is the most exquisite pain of all.' "

― Vicki Pettersson , The Taken (Celestial Blues, #1)