Megan Abbott Quotes

It is not aloofness, superiority. It's a protection. Who in this ravaged battlefield doesn't want to gather close her comrades?

I think she might cry. In her way, she is.

When you have nothing inside you, you feel everything more, and feel you can control it all.

That was what gymnastics did, though. It aged girls and kept them young forever at the same time. And

She wasn't just a B-girl, she was carrying the whole ugly world in her eyes.

Sexual debut. Sometimes it seemed to Deenie that high school was like a long game of And Then There Were None. Every Monday, another girl's debut.

Sometimes it felt like parenting amounted to a series of questionable decisions, one after another.

You have to decide who you are, little girl, she told me once. Once you know that, everyone else will too.

Can I trust you, Addy?" he asks. I say he can. Does anyone ever answer that question with a no?

When she returned, there was Coach T. spinning

Never make eye contact with a wolf. The wolf will take it as a challenge.

Because there's a hundred ways sex can ruin you but there's no end to the ways love can.

Looking at her, he could almost see the painted serpent squirming on her skin, ready to turn, mouth open.

They knew each other most deeply through body-warmed sheets and the tangle of half dreams.

That's what parenthood was about, wasn't it? Slowly understanding your child less and less until she wasn't yours anymore but herself.

She said I'd better not make her unhappy because I oughta know that she's never unhappy alone.

I know what that's like," he says. "The way you can be saved without ever knowing you were in trouble.

...Devon wore the face of a stone Artemis.

There wasn't much to know. Now there's less.

Time to put on your miner's hat and headed toward the bright light.

It was the best night ever.
And they hadn't talked about any of it since.

You never think your life will be that big. Just

Bobby pins crunching under my feet, I walk through, surveying the damaged girlness.

Love is a kind of killing, Addy," she says. "Don't you know that?

A second date always felt like an announcement at his age. And he never felt ready for the announcement.

I figured I'd duck out ... before Goody Osbourne took the stand.

That she was both fearless and fragile and could be hurt badly in ways he could not fix.

I think it was Freud who said that we're all arrested at a certain age. For me, it was always 13.

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.

There's something dangerous about the boredom of teenage girls.

Suddenly,I want to hold the whole night close to my chest and I decide it is mine alone

Then she said sometimes the ways boys need things so badly, like they could never stop needing, it almost scared her.

I don't really consider any of my novels 'crime' novels.

If it hadn't been what it was, it would've been beautiful.

I haven't had anything to drink in so long, I figured it'd be best to have something I'd probably never want two of.

Since then, he could only ever think about his sister, one wall away. And how he hoped Deenie never did things like this. With guys like him.

If we look at it from eye corners, or from places other than the center of our head, isn't there a kind of terrible beauty in it?

If you didn't feel it on your body long after he'd left, was it really worth laying for him? I wanted to feel that.

He looked like he could tie a knot in a fire poker, eat it, and crap it out straight.

Being a girl is so hard, Katie thought. And it only gets harder. The

Then I thought maybe she did know but didn't want to look at it. Maybe she did know but there's all kinds of lies you tell yourself when you want to.

There is something bad here, growing. Day and night I watch it. Growing. - Sophocles, Electra

You really only learn your place, her mother once said, when you're left in it.

Like all that you are is the wanting, and the rest of you just burns away?

This is my body, and I can make it do things. I can make it spin, flip, fly.

We're all wanting things we don't understand. things we can't even name. The yearning so deep, like pinions over our hearts.