Vanessa Garden Quotes & Sayings

Being honest with yourself starves the demon inside of you. — Vanessa Garden

Marko pressed the creased paper flat against the note stand, rested the pads of his fingers lightly over the top of the keys and began to play. I watched him at first, my eyes drinking in the gorgeous sight that was Marko lost inside his head, but then the music - at first soft, like drops of dew, then rippling and rolling like a shower of rain - swept me away. — Vanessa Garden

When we hurt for somebody, it's almost always related to our own emotions, with nothing to do with the other person. Sounds selfish, but it's true; and life is less complicated when we give in to the truth. — Vanessa Garden

Good or bad, we need change. Need the different. Our brains aren't wired for the same-old. — Vanessa Garden

Google was now my teacher.
I was a student of the world. — Vanessa Garden

I only had to think of him - of the way it felt to be secured within his arms, of the sometimes soft and sometimes demanding (but always knee-dissolving) way that he kissed me, or of that look on his face whenever his steely-blue eyes locked with mine, like he was drowning in my soul and actually liked it there - and life's problems temporarily melted away. — Vanessa Garden

Have you ever read Hans Christian Andersen's story of The Little Mermaid, Miranda? Have you ever wanted
something so badly that you were willing to suffer the sensation of a thousand blades cutting into your feet? — Vanessa Garden

You don't like me, do you?' he asked. 'And yet, you liked it when I held your hand.'
I stood there, burning with humiliation.
He smiled. A spark of interest illuminated his eyes.
'I find that so intriguing.'
'I didn't like it,' I said, when I finally found my voice. 'I hated it.'
Marko smiled.
'Shall we try it again, then, just to be sure? — Vanessa Garden