Quotes From "The Witch Of Belladonna Bay" By 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

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'll be just fine, " he said. "Listen to your heart and mind together, that's the trick. Not one or the other, both. 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

I'm like the moon, " he started, "the hidden side of the moon. Not seen because it don't want to be seen. Everyone knows ther's is shadow there, but no one looks. It's like that with me, Byrd. I'm part illuminated, part in shadow-and that part that shines is all you ever wanted to see. But it kept getting smaller, and now it's dark. I'm a new moon now, Byrd. All there is, is shadow. Can you still see me? Do you still love me? . 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

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