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1 " Wanna see the rest of my happy place? "
― Dia Reeves, , Slice of Cherry
2 " But what if the monsters come?""Fancy." Kit looked away from the drama to stare at her sister, surprised. "We are the monsters. "
3 " I’d give just about anything if I could make you care,” he said. “Especially about me. "
4 " I do know you, Fancy. All about you. The problem is, you don’t know about me. "
5 " When Fancy still didn't answer, he took her hand, and with his red paintbrush, he wrote 'please' into her palm. "
6 " Real monsters eat you from the inside out. "
7 " People?" As though she'd never heard of such a thing. "They're like dolls. Plastic and shiny and fake. "
8 " 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. "
9 " But what was the point of love if it didn't keep people from leaving you? "
10 " The worst thing you can do is rest all your hopes on a wish. A granted wish doesn't equal a perfect life. "
11 " Humans are predators, not prey. Always remember that. "
12 " I'm the Bonesaw Killer's daughter," she whispered, almost to herself. "Why would you ever think I was good? "
13 " You're like rottweilers - they protect you from burglars, but nothing protects you from them. "
14 " 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. "
15 " 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. "
16 " She decided not to look him in the eyes ever again. It was too much like being shoved over the edge of a ravine. "
17 " No, thanks. If I start wearing heels, boys will whistle at me when I walk by. "
18 " Trying to understand Daddy is like trying to nail jelly to a tree. "
19 " 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. "
20 " Poison ivy and deer crap and rocks. Oh, my! "