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1 " Truth is worse than soap in the eyes. "
― Suzanne Palmieri , The Witch of Belladonna Bay
2 " I'm an old man now. Old on the inside. I'm a drunk, and I hate to tell you, but I'm not prepared to change. So you have to figure out if you want to forgive me and love me like I am, or run away again. Or hell, stay here and hate me. Just...know that I love you the best way I know how. I always have. I do the best I can. "
3 " 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. "
4 " 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. "
5 " You're a girl on fire. And it seems to me, you been dousing those flames for years. Let yourself burn a little. "
6 " [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. "
7 " There's a great deal of power in pretending. "
8 " Too much work, I guess, to figure out each person as a whole instead of parts of this and parts of that. "
9 " I'd forgotten so many important things. I'd stolen away my own past. It made me feel like a coward. "
10 " 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. "
11 " 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. "
12 " You really are a chameleon, aren't you? Fitting in wherever you go."Aren't we all?" she said... "
13 " Mermaids don't drown. "
14 " You'll be just fine," he said. "Listen to your heart and mind together, that's the trick. Not one or the other, both. "
15 " She told us about how some people just had magic built into them. That her family firmly believed somehow, somewhere, at the very moment when the stars first erupted with a bang, stardust settled on only a few specks of life already forming in the sea. And how those few specks evolved into people who hold all sorts of unexplainable talents. "
16 " When I was little, I thought it was terribly romantic, being half stardust, half Southern magnolia. "
17 " Laughter layered the walls and clung to the dust mites, making them sparkle like lightning bugs in the daytime. "
18 " You can't measure other people's love, Sugar. "
19 " 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? "
20 " She told us about how some people just had magic built into them. That her family firmly believed somehow, somewhere, at the very moment when the stars first erupted with a bang, stardust settled on only a few specks of life already forming in the sea. And how those few specks evolved into people who hold all sorts of unexplainable talents. When I was little I thought it was terribly romantic, being half stardust, half Southern magnolia. "
