“I wouldn't want to live that life. I choose the pain. I chose the pain.” — Suzanne Palmieri Choosing-pain Copy Share Image
“The cards are too vague, and if you want an answer to come out a certain way, it does.” — Suzanne Palmieri Copy Share Image
“Regular people have such a hard time listening to the low hum of instinct.” — Suzanne Palmieri Hard time Copy Share Image
“It isn't only trouble that comes up behind you, Mama, it's sorrow too.” — Suzanne Palmieri Mama Copy Share Image
“Spring came slowly to the Bronx with a lot of rain & soft water-color tree blossoms.” — Suzanne Palmieri Flowers Copy Share Image
“Right don’t mean shit, not if everyone around you is bent on bein’ wrong.” — Suzanne Palmieri Wrong Copy Share Image
“When it was over, he said, “I’ve been waiting for you, you little lost thing,” and I cried, because he’d acknowledged what… — Suzanne Palmieri Gypsy Copy Share Image
“Laughter layered the walls and clung to the dust mites, making them sparkle like lightning bugs in the daytime.” — Suzanne Palmieri Beautiful writing Copy Share Image
“The kitchen door, painted red from the day Naomi moved in, and a geranium, also red, outside on the stoop, gave the… — Suzanne Palmieri Beautiful-imagery Copy Share Image
“Pain is like a map, I guess. But I found my shortcut on my "map of the heart." Shortcuts always take longer,… — Suzanne Palmieri Pain Copy Share Image
“I can still feel them there. His lips on mine. His words in my ear that day. "Itsy, say you'll be my… — Suzanne Palmieri Lips Copy Share Image
“What did you say to me Itsy? The day when you broke your silence?" Itsy shrugged and shuffled back into her own… — Suzanne Palmieri Silence Copy Share Image
“I like the dark," she said. "Ain't it just like a big blue blanket wrappin' us up with comfort?” — Suzanne Palmieri Dark Copy Share Image
“You really are a chameleon, aren't you? Fitting in wherever you go. "Aren't we all?" she said...” — Suzanne Palmieri Chameleon Copy Share Image
“She told us about how some people just had magic built into them. That her family firmly believed somehow, somewhere, at the… — Suzanne Palmieri Family Copy Share Image
“The truth is, time marches on and you have two choices: You move forward, come what may, and you experience all the… — Suzanne Palmieri Debut-novel Copy Share Image
“The only problem is the heart is quiet. It takes a very special kind of person to hear what the heart says.… — Suzanne Palmieri Heart Copy Share Image
“I don't pay no mind to rules. Seems to me, rules are things made up by scared people too afraid to die,… — Suzanne Palmieri Carpe diem Copy Share Image
“[P]eople think that in order for something to be frightening, it has to be dark, musty, and full of cobwebs and secrets.… — Suzanne Palmieri Things happen Copy Share Image
“I don’t belong here anymore, Paddy. I don’t know that I ever did.” “Seems to me, you’re gonna get yourself lost, BitsyWyn.… — Suzanne Palmieri Copy Share Image
“What’s the definition of torture? I’ll tell you what it is. It’s when someone you can’t stand to be parted from leaves… — Suzanne Palmieri Definition Copy Share Image
“We all gotta die, and we all gotta live with the things our dark sides do. People are afraid of their darkness,… — Suzanne Palmieri Beautiful writing Copy Share Image
“Here's a secret to love," she said. "Always make sure that the man loves you just a breath more than you love… — Suzanne Palmieri Love Copy Share Image
“She remembered reading somewhere that Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. Eleanor wished there were a hundred ways to say her… — Suzanne Palmieri Copy Share Image
“I'm like the moon," he started, "the hidden side of the moon. Not seen because it don't want to be seen. Everyone… — Suzanne Palmieri Beautiful writing Copy Share Image
“A game like sardines is scary, not so much for the hider but for the seekers. It's scary because you lose your… — Suzanne Palmieri Alone Copy Share Image
“She told us about how some people just had magic built into them. That her family firmly believed somehow, somewhere, at the… — Suzanne Palmieri Family Copy Share Image
“Love should never be a secret and it should never, ever be forgotten.” — Suzanne Palmieri Love Copy Share Image
“You don’t need no fancy ESP when someone’s hurtin’. You can guess.” — Suzanne Palmieri Copy Share Image
“Cooper smelled damage a mile away. He knew she'd never run. She'd never tell.” — Suzanne Palmieri Copy Share Image
“The picture was painted before Naomi’s addiction. Drug-induced smiles aren’t real.” — Suzanne Palmieri Copy Share Image
“Hindsight is something everyone falls prey to, even those of us with a little magic.” — Suzanne Palmieri Copy Share Image
“You can’t heal someone who doesn’t want to get well. You just can’t.” — Suzanne Palmieri Copy Share Image
“What I didn’t know back then, is that I was cold. I’d turned off the longing, knowing that if I let one… — Suzanne Palmieri Grief Copy Share Image