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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.

alcoholics, fathers-and-daughters, honesty, love, not-trying, trying

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.

confidence, fear, obstacles, patience, wisdom

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.

byrd, carpe-diem, live-in-the-moment, rules

Suzanne Palmieri

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

love, remember, secret

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.

heart, listening, love

Suzanne Palmieri

Do you love her?’ she asked him.’Always have,’ he said.’Then why in the world would you leave her alone?

being-in-love, love, questions, staying

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

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

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?

beautiful-writing, truth-of-life

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

There’s a great deal of power in pretending.

delusions, pretending, truth-of-life

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.