38 Quotes by Suzanne Palmieri

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

When I was little, I thought it was terribly romantic, being half stardust, half Southern magnolia.

Laughter layered the walls and clung to the dust mites, making them sparkle like lightning bugs in the daytime.

We all gotta die, and we all gotta live with the things our dark sides do. People are afraid of their darkness, though. Spend their whole lives so scared of dyin' that they never get to live. Spend their whole lives pushin' down that darkness, until there ain't no light at all.

But, small family or not, they could yell large.

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.

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

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.

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.