Rachel Lauer > Rachel's Quotes

“They took the hits so we could skate by obliviously, because that’s the deal: as a parent, you endure pain so your children don’t have to.”
― Grady Hendrix, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires

“it is possible to be crazy and paranoid and totally insane and still be right. Maybe the problem with everyone is that the world has become so insane they’re not out of their minds enough to comprehend it.”
― Grady Hendrix, We Sold Our Souls

“But if there was one thing she was learning it was that she could endure anything, even the unendurable.”
― Grady Hendrix, We Sold Our Souls

“He needed me because he wanted to cling to God now. God, the boring relative everyone ignores—no one calls, no one writes—until they need a serious favor.” He”
― Marisha Pessl, Night Film

“Life was a freight train barreling toward just one stop, our loved ones streaking past our windows in blurs of color and light. There was no holding on to any of it, and no slowing it down.”
― Marisha Pessl, Night Film

“This is why not giving a fuck is so key. This is why it’s going to save the world. And it’s going to save it by accepting that the world is totally fucked and that’s all right, because it’s always been that way, and always will be.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“It was similar to that intense way you felt when you were newly in love, or newly pregnant, or driving a car on your own for the very first time. Everything felt significant.”
― Liane Moriarty, Big Little Lies

“If she packaged the perfect Facebook life, maybe she would start to believe it herself.”
― Liane Moriarty, Big Little Lies

“She looked straight ahead at the briskly working windshield wipers. The windshield was just like the never-ending cycles of her mind. Confusion. Clear. Confusion. Clear. Confusion. Clear.”
― Liane Moriarty, Big Little Lies

“It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.”
― Nick Cutter, The Troop

“Adults were scared of different things: their jobs, their mortgages, whether they hung out with the “right people,” whether they would die unloved. These were pallid compared to the fears of a child—leering clowns under the bed and slimy monsters capering beyond the basement’s light and faceless sucking horrors from beyond the stars. There’s no 12-step or self-help group for dealing with those fears.”
― Nick Cutter, The Troop

“I’m just saying that sometimes the more you care for something, the more damage you do. Not on purpose, right? You end up hurting the things you love just because you’re trying so hard.”
― Nick Cutter, The Troop

“She didn’t believe that. Didn’t agree with it. But intrusive thoughts were trespassers. You didn’t invite them in. But they broke in, anyway, whether they were true or false.”
― Chuck Wendig, The Book of Accidents

“In the end, it's never what you worry about that gets you.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Guts

“I can feel myself falling in hate. It’s a lot like falling in love, but tends to happen harder and faster and often lasts a lot longer, too.”
― Alice Feeney, His & Hers

“Sometimes it’s hard to know if someone is insulting or just an American.”
― T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead

“It doesn’t help that I’m famous for a thing I started when I was a kid. I think of what it would be like if everyone was famous for a thing they did when they were thirteen: their middle school band, their seventh-grade science project, their eighth-grade play. The middle school years are the years to stumble, fall, and tuck under the rug as soon as you’re done with them because you’ve already outgrown them by the time you’re fifteen.”
― Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died

“A pushover is a bad thing to be, but an opinionated pushover is a worse thing to be. A pushover is nice and goes along with it, whatever it is. An opinionated pushover acts nice and goes along with it, but while quietly brooding and resentful. I am an opinionated pushover.”
― Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died

“I wish people were more like books. If you realize halfway through a novel that you aren’t enjoying it anymore, you can just stop and find something new to read. Same with films and TV dramas. There is no judgment, no guilt, nobody even needs to know unless you choose to tell them. But with people, you tend to have to see it through to the end, and sadly not everyone gets to live happily ever after.”
― Alice Feeney, Rock Paper Scissors

“When I was little, one of my favorite activities was strolling up and down the Horror section of our local video store, looking at all the covers and scaring myself silly.”
― Nat Cassidy, Mary: An Awakening of Terror

“Because the past is like the moon, isn’t it? It’s always there, but it shifts, it’s never the same when you revisit it.”
― Nat Cassidy, Mary: An Awakening of Terror

“Who am I? I am just a story written in present tense. We all are. We are never finished.”
― Nat Cassidy, Mary: An Awakening of Terror

“I judge people two ways—on how they treat animals, and on what they like to eat. If their favorite food is some kind of salad, they are definitely a bad person. Anything with cheese, they are probably OK.”
― Catriona Ward, The Last House on Needless Street

“The young feel pain intensely, I think, because they don’t know yet how deep it can go.”
― Catriona Ward, The Last House on Needless Street

“Anyway, fast-forward a decade and some change later, and my grandmother finally died. She was a hundred and one. There’s a line of poetry I always think of, though I can’t remember who said it. “The good die first / and they whose hearts are dry as summer dust / burn to the socket.”
― T. Kingfisher, The Twisted Ones

“It was a big rock, about knee high, on the edge of the cleared area, near the oak tree. It had been shaped into some kind of yard art. If I came back during daylight, I’d probably see that it had been carved into an American eagle holding the severed head of a terrorist or something. Grandma wasn’t exactly a patriot, but she dearly loved having an excuse to hate a whole group of people.”
― T. Kingfisher, The Twisted Ones

“Bongo was restless. It had rained the day before and he’d been stuck inside because if we went outside his feet would get wet. He will happily stand in a puddle or chest deep in a fishpond, but wet grass on his paws is an abomination. Dogs, man. Dogs.”
― T. Kingfisher, The Twisted Ones

“She had to get used to organizing her emotions and thoughts in peace. Any crisis or chaos will pass. The anxiety will ease. They are your children, and they just want your love. You deserve their love. Just be open to it. You don’t have to impress them. You don’t have to impress other parents. You are enough.”
― V. Castro, The Haunting of Alejandra

“Last time I looked, in about 2009, social media was one big room full of people not listening to each other, shouting, ‘My life’s great!’ I doubt this has changed.”
― Jason Arnopp, The Last Days of Jack Sparks

“But I, I was scared of wishful thinking, too. It’s like…the fear of hope. Misplaced hope. That’s the worst thing: misplaced hope.”
― Jason Arnopp, The Last Days of Jack Sparks