Suzanne Palmieri Quotes & Sayings

What did you say to me Itsy? The day when you broke your silence?
Itsy shrugged and shuffled back into her own apartment. — 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

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. — Suzanne Palmieri

Sugar, the things we hold closest to our hearts are the things we just can't seem to see. Jackson Whalen — 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

She remembered reading somewhere that Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. Eleanor wished there were a hundred ways to say her name. She thought, maybe, if her name was howled from all corners of the world, in a million different voices, that she might explode into a cloud of snow. Light and separate, her parts floating down onto the world in a series of beautiful crystalline moments. — 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

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

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

I like the dark," she said. "Ain't it just like a big blue blanket wrappin' us up with comfort? — Suzanne Palmieri

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

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. — Suzanne Palmieri

It isn't only trouble that comes up behind you, Mama, it's sorrow too. — Suzanne Palmieri

I can still feel them there. His lips on mine. His words in my ear that day.
Itsy, say you'll be my girl. My secret. Oh, please say it. — 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

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

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

All the Amore siblings had The Sight in varying degrees, and its fickleness got us into trouble sometimes. — Suzanne Palmieri

Spring came slowly to the Bronx with a lot of rain & soft water-color tree blossoms. — 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

But, small family or not, they could yell large. — Suzanne Palmieri

No matter how silly I think it all is, society is still society and we are not free of the burdens of hate. — 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

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

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

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

Magic is a funny term,' she'd say. 'There is nothing supernatural about the earth. As long as you know what does what. — Suzanne Palmieri

But was it fate? Or was it our doing? I don't know. — Suzanne Palmieri

Mermaids don't drown. — Suzanne Palmieri

You can't measure other people's love, Sugar. — Suzanne Palmieri

Everyone has a dark side. This is pure fact. I can see it like a shadow behind them all the time. — 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

There's a great deal of power in pretending. — 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. 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

Here's a secret to love," she said. "Always make sure that the man loves you just a breath more than you love him."
"Oh Mimi, I love your Papa more than any woman ever loved any man. And still, he loves me a breath more. It's the only healthy way. If a woman loves too much- if her love is heavier- she won't see anything but him. She'll be blind to the world. Women are made like that. We have to teach ourselves not to become obsessed. True love lies in peace, not torture. — Suzanne Palmieri

Life," said Simone St. James ... "is stitched together from a series of mistakes, some little, some big, like the patches on the clothes we wore growin' up, you know — Suzanne Palmieri

Cooper smelled damage a mile away. He knew she'd never run. She'd never tell. — 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

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

I'm a Lost Witch. Are you a Lost Witch too? — Suzanne Palmieri

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

Truth is worse than soap in the eyes. — 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

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

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