21 quotes found
“If it hadn't been what it was, it would've been beautiful.”
“Love is a kind of killing, Addy," she says. "Don't you know that?”
“She wasn't just a B-girl, she was carrying the whole ugly world in her eyes.”
“...there's a hundred ways sex can ruin you but there's no end to the ways love can.”
“A second date always felt like an announcement at his age. And he never felt ready for the announcement.”
“It is not aloofness, superiority. Its a protection. Who in this ravaged battlefield doesnt want to gather close her comrades?”
“I still feel like teenage girls are not taken seriously by the culture at large, especially not their darker or more complicated feelingsof aggression, desire, ambition. To me, these feelings and d...”
“Things can get pretty rough out there," he says. "Can't they? For you girls? You're all a bunch of warriors, aren't you? Lionhearted.”
“It is simple as this: she has a complicated life and her clothes can't help but show it. It is all part of her unique disheveled glamour.”
“...like my own granddad used to say, if you get down to the nub of it, people don't change.That's not true, Katie thought. Not at all. Everyone changed, all the time. That was what was so hard.”
“The more I did itthe more it owned me. It made things matter. It put a spine into my spineless life and that spine spread, into backbone, ribs, collarbone, neck held high.It was something. Don't sa...”
“This girl, this girl, and he a man with a business and a secretary and a house with a furnace and bills and a son and a roof with three shingles and a pretty birdpath made of stone that I sometimes...”
“They watch her when she comes to City Hall, they watch her at the social events, they watch the way she walks, hips rolling with no suggestion of provocation but with every sense that she knows mor...”
“People will always try to scare you into things. Scare you away from things. Scare you into not wanting things you can't help wanting. You can't be afraid.”
“The drone in my ear, its like the tornado drill in elementary school, the hand-cranked siren that rang mercilessly, all of us hunched over on ourselves, facing the basement walls, heads tucked into...”
“Skye said when she looked at Lise, she saw a black mark, an aura. Just like the mark on Lises thigh, it was a warming. Deenie thought of it now, of Lise and the stretch mark on her thigh. And how t...”
“Because they do burn leaves here, the older folks do, and I remember now that I love it and always have. The way fall feels at night because of it, because of the crackling sound and walking around...”
“Did you ever look out in that dark and fucked-up world out there and think, how do I let my daughter out into that? And how do i stop her? And the things you cant stop because youre because-”
“It is not aloofness, superiority. It’s a protection. Who in this ravaged battlefield doesn’t want to gather close her comrades?”
“The more I did it―the more it owned me. It made things matter. It put a spine into my spineless life and that spine spread, into backbone, ribs, collarbone, neck held high.It was something. Don't s...”
