Suzanne Palmieri Quotes

Truth is worse than soap in the eyes.

~ Suzanne Palmieri

The truth is, time marches on and you have two choices: You move forward, come what may, and you experience all the sour and sweet things that fly at you from around corners, or you sit still. Don't sit still.

~ Suzanne Palmieri

The air between them began to settle into a silence. Awkward, yet softly exciting. Like an unexpected snow day.

~ Suzanne Palmieri

Regular people have such a hard time listening to the low hum of instinct.

~ Suzanne Palmieri

You. You are standing in your own way. And that means whatever it is scares you. It won't forever...but take your time. Nothing good was ever rushed.

~ Suzanne Palmieri

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.

~ Suzanne Palmieri

You really are a chameleon, aren't you? Fitting in wherever you go.Aren't we all? she said...

~ Suzanne Palmieri

A game like sardines is scary, not so much for the hider but for the seekers. It's scary because you lose your companions and the whole world creeps up quiet and you slowly realize you're going to stumble upon a secret place where everyone will jump out at you. And then, when you are the very last seeker, you start to wonder if you're the only person in the world. If the hiding place somehow sucked up the players and the last one has to decide to run away or get sucked up, too.

~ Suzanne Palmieri

Father and Ivy used to go off on their excursions, never knowing that I was relieved when they were gone. That I'd wear my nightgowns all day and read from dawn till dusk.

~ Suzanne Palmieri

Sometimes it's the smallest secrets that hold the most hope, the most fun, the most danger.

~ Suzanne Palmieri

I wouldn't want to live that life. I choose the pain. I chose the pain.

~ Suzanne Palmieri

Now, Simone, I'm a witch, remember? There's not much I don't know just by looking at you. And you know what I see when I look at you?'Simone walked out the door before she could finish, only hearing the steely hush of Millie's voice add, 'Nothing.

~ Suzanne Palmieri

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.

~ Suzanne Palmieri

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.

~ Suzanne Palmieri

You're a girl on fire. And it seems to me, you been dousing those flames for years. Let yourself burn a little.

~ Suzanne Palmieri

[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.

~ Suzanne Palmieri

There's a great deal of power in pretending.

~ Suzanne Palmieri

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?

~ Suzanne Palmieri

Too much work, I guess, to figure out each person as a whole instead of parts of this and parts of that.

~ Suzanne Palmieri

I'd forgotten so many important things. I'd stolen away my own past. It made me feel like a coward.

~ Suzanne Palmieri

Do you love her?' she asked him.'Always have,' he said.'Then why in the world would you leave her alone?

~ Suzanne Palmieri

The only problem is the heart is quiet. It takes a very special kind of person to hear what the heart says. Most can't hear it at all and they have to guess. There are a lot of people walking around just guessing.

~ Suzanne Palmieri

Love should never be a secret and it should never, ever be forgotten.

~ Suzanne Palmieri

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.

~ Suzanne Palmieri

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.

~ Suzanne Palmieri