Lilah Pace Quotes & Sayings

Still, one of the great truths of life is that any situation can be improved with coffee. — Lilah Pace

We don't get all better; we don't fix everything that's broken. We just learn how to work around the broken bits. How to do the best we can with what we have, and who we are. — Lilah Pace

If it were no big deal, you wouldn't be standing out here now," he says. "I knew the truth as soon as I saw your face. You want that fantasy. You want it more than you've ever wanted anything else." He looks directly at me for the first time. "You hate it, don't you? The fantasy. I do too. But it doesn't change anything. — Lilah Pace

A macchiato can only solve your problems if you let it, sweetie. — Lilah Pace

A piece of art that speaks to you can open windows in a room you hadn't even known was dark. — Lilah Pace

Sometimes life is like a video game. When things get harder, and the obstacles get tougher, it just means you leveled up. — Lilah Pace

Once again that mixture of fear and desire surges through my veins, the same kind of fire I imagine injected heroin must feel like - an agony so sweet you'd do anything for it. — Lilah Pace

What's it like, being in love?"
For a few moments James tried to find the right words. "Like that moment in THE WIZARD OF OZ when Dorothy opens the door and see Oz for the first time. Everything goes from black and white to Technicolor. And you're leaving everything that's familiar. Instead the world is both scarier and more beautiful than ever before. — Lilah Pace

When will that be? After all your secrets are told. So, never. My illusions have been overshadowed by harsh, cold fact. — Lilah Pace

It's your secret. A piece of your life that's yours to share or not to share, as you see fit. You never have to tell a soul if you don't want to. — Lilah Pace

Always, I believed that if I ever acted out my rape fantasy the way I wanted, this would be the moment where I started to regret it. My pride would return. I wouldn't be able to believe I'd abased myself like this, that I'd let a man treat me like a possession he owned. No matter how good the sex had or hadn't been, I thought, afterward I'd be so ashamed it wouldn't be worth it. — Lilah Pace

I've come to realize that speaking the truth can be a form of love. Maybe listening can be too. — Lilah Pace

Sometimes what looks like generosity can be control.You think you're being swept up in this big romance, but really it's all about separating you from your own life. — Lilah Pace

Mines lie buried just beneath the surface of every sentence my mother says. — Lilah Pace

It's so hard to believe that someone might want me - all of me - fucked-up sexual desire, tangled family history, book-hoarding tendencies, everything. — Lilah Pace

Sometimes "Southern hospitality" is just another term for hypocrisy. — Lilah Pace

They have no idea how deep this goes for me. To them it's a tremor, not an earthquake. — Lilah Pace

The September night is as sultry as July, and the sound of cicadas shimmers louder, softer, then louder again. It's the sound of heat itself, of summer bearing down on you without mercy. — Lilah Pace

The fantasy comes from that, and from a culture that eroticizes violence against women, and leftover puritanical guilt about sex that tells us we're not allowed to choose it and want it for ourselves, and from God only knows where else. — Lilah Pace

I meant - the world breaks so many of us. Maybe all of us, in the end. But everyone starts out like this. Untouched, happy. Perfect. And we put all our hopes on children, all the hopes we can't believe in for ourselves any longer. — Lilah Pace

Jonah's the only man who ever made my entire mind splinter like this. Because I can't speak. I can't think. I don't know what to feel. All I know is that he's pumping me hard now, so deep inside me that it seems like - like there's nothing left of me except my body, and my body is completely his - even the arousal arcing inside me, more and more powerful, that belongs to him too - — Lilah Pace

I don't want to want that. My fantasy is something I'm trying to escape from, not sink down into. If I try this and hate it, that would be beyond horrible. It might be as traumatic as a real rape, and I would have walked right into it. That's not what scares me, though. What scares me is that I'll try it and love it. Maybe I really am that fucked up. — Lilah Pace

How did this man with the power to terrify me also become the one person who truly makes me feel safe? — Lilah Pace