Danielle Strozyk > Danielle's Quotes

“This story is about a lot of things, but mostly about idiots. So it needs saying from the outset that it’s always very easy to declare that other people are idiots, but only if you forget how idiotically difficult being human is.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“As a general rule, I like holes. A hole at the top of my tank gives me freedom. But I do not like the hole in her heart. She only has one, not three, like me. Tova’s heart. I will do everything I can to help her fill it.”
― Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

“Flirting is probably just as much about falling in love with yourself as it is with someone else. It's about seeing yourself through someone's eyes and realizing there is plenty to like about yourself, plenty of reasons someone might hang on your every word.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, One True Loves

“Dogs are stupid,” Rusty said. “This is a known fact. But a cat—you have to earn a cat’s respect every single day of your life. You lose it and—” He snapped his fingers. “That’s what your mama was to me. She was my cat. She kept my compass pointing true north.”
― Karin Slaughter, The Good Daughter

“Men don’t know, she thinks, they don’t know how having a baby makes you protective of your skin, your body, your space. When you spend all day giving yourself to a baby in every way that it’s possible to give yourself to another human being, the last thing you want at the end of the day is a grown man wanting you to give him things too. Men don’t know how the touch of a hand against the back of your neck can feel like a request, not a gesture of love, how emotional issues become too cumbersome to deal with, how their love for you is too much sometimes, just too much. Kim sometimes thinks that women practise being mothers on men until they become actual mothers, leaving behind a kind of vacancy.”
― Lisa Jewell, The Night She Disappeared

“You didn’t help chop up a two-hundred-fifty-pound man and still graduate at the top of your class without learning how to compartmentalize.”
― Karin Slaughter, False Witness

“I just mean, don't beat yourself up for single-handedly saving yourself with the tools you had available to you. Where I come from, that's called survival.”
― Sally Hepworth

“It might seem simple but if you want to do it right there’s a lot to learn and fast.”
Just like fishtail braids and blowjobs. And I was really only good at one of those things.
“I am always up for a challenge” I said, flipping my perfect fishtail braid over my shoulder.”
― Lindsey Kelk, On a Night Like This

“I was perfectly willing to make a heaven of any hell in which I happened to find myself, but I would be goddamned if I made my daughter endure it.”
― Carissa Orlando, The September House

“You run on ahead.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Winners

“We aren’t freshly blooming flowers, we’re two trees with intertwined roots, you’ve grown old within me.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Winners