Me Since You Laura Wiess Quotes & Sayings

If I allow my gaze to travel higher-which I won't-I'll see the solid gold basketball charm on a chain that my mother gave him for his eighteenth birthday nestled in his coarse, whorled chest hair.
My front teeth throb as the memory of the charm bangs against them. — Laura Wiess

See, guys freak out. They hit critical mass and blast nuclear, white-hot anger out over the world like walking flamethrowers. But girls freak in. They absorb the pain and bitterness and keep right on sponging it up until they drown. — Laura Wiess

There are only the three of us and our dark, burgeoning desires
I am so afraid of what comes next — Laura Wiess

Being user friendly doesn't mean you're going to be loved. — Laura Wiess

No roll in the hay is worth losing what I've got. — Laura Wiess

How can you make someone love you when they won't? How long are you supposed to keep trying? — Laura Wiess

So sometimes what takes you down can be used to raise you up again. — Laura Wiess

If she'd said she loved me and still did all those cruel and careless things, would my child mind have decided to accept that as the definition of love?
Probably.
Would I have ended up believing that love was manipulative and hurtful and full of pain, gotten use to being shoved aside, sworn at and disregarded, picked up and hugged, and then slapped around for getting in the way, starved and smiled at, neglected and cursed, told I was no good and would never amount to anything, then hefted high and proudly shown off down at the Walmart, introduced as a little pisser and a big mistake in the same breath?
Yes, I would have, because if she said she loved me and then acted that way I would have thought that was how you loved someone, and how someone should love you back. — Laura Wiess

Be good. Be a nice girl. Don't ruin our happy family. — Laura Wiess

So I leave proof of my existence behind me like a snail trail with the small hope that years of talking at me will someday soften her enough to talk with me, that she'll finally pull the knife from my chest and say yes, we are better off without him. That what happened wasn't my fault and from now on she will thrust herself between me and danger, and shout NO. — Laura Wiess

Meredith's a big girl. She knows how babies are made, don't you, Mer?"
I nod, numb and weary. "'Course I do. Same guy that taught you taught me. — Laura Wiess

this is no place for miracles — Laura Wiess

Physical imperfections have always offended him, but apparently my bad hygiene wasn't repellent enough. Perhaps Ms. Mues's full-blown adulthood will be. — Laura Wiess

My biggest mistake is in believing there are limits to how bad it can get. — Laura Wiess

Knowing deep inside some ghosts are too cruel to question — Laura Wiess

There are worse things in life to be than fat, and one of them is ignorant. Another is prejudiced. Another is deliberately cruel. — Laura Wiess

Real life isn't like the movies. The victim doesn't usually win. She just endures. — Laura Wiess

My mother plants her hands on her hips, peevish. "Is that the best welcome you can come up with? Why don't you come over here and give your father a hug?" Hug him? Touch him? How can she even suggest it? — Laura Wiess

Ignorance of the outcome doesn't exempt you from the consequences. — Laura Wiess

Tonight is when the obscene becomes the acceptable. — Laura Wiess

somebody chokes, it's always on a hunk of steak. — Laura Wiess

The distant threat of eternal damnation pales in comparison to the immediate gratification of corrupting young skin. — Laura Wiess

What are you doing?" I say hoarsely as he trails a finger from the beauty mark on my rib cage to the one on my hip, leaving a path of goose bumps in his wake.
"Connecting the dots," he murmurs with a wicked look. "Uh-oh, you made me lose my place. Now I have to start all over again ... — Laura Wiess

We have babies because we want them to love us, to make us important, but the only make us tired and fat and stinking of spit up because they're babies, not saviors. Their fathers leave us, sick of crap and sour milk, sweatpants and tears.
But the babies still need all of us, only there isn't anything left to give because we based our worth on the lowlifes who knocked us up and around.
So our babies end up screwed up and screwed with because not we're single again, too, so we're bringing home guys who secretly like pink satin baby skin more than our silvery stretch marks. We don't see what we should see because having anyone is till supposedly better than being alone. — Laura Wiess

And while we're talking about being used and abused, you should know that there are some things you tell and some things you handle by yourself, the best you can. — Laura Wiess

Tomorrow belongs to betrayal. Today is mine and I don't want to waste it being afraid. — Laura Wiess

It's okay. Don't push her, Sharon. — Laura Wiess

They brought along a young man named Andy who wants very much to see you. She steps aside to let him through.
I tuck my hair back behind my ears.
Meet his shining gaze and break into a smile.
He is so tall. — Laura Wiess

All emotion receded, pulled out like low tide, leaving my brain an empty ocean bottom — Laura Wiess

Hate the behavior, not the individual. — Laura Wiess