Abby > Abby's Quotes

“If you have anything to say, anything you feel nobody has ever said before, you have got to feel it so desperately that you will find some way to say it that nobody has ever found before, so that the thing you have to say and the way of saying it blend as one matter--as indissolubly as if they were conceived together.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Short Stories

“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

“She was gone, and all that was left was the space you'd grown around her, like a tree that grows around a fence. For a long time, it remained hollow. Years, maybe. And when at last it was filled again, you knew that the new love you felt for a woman would have been impossible without Alma. If it weren't for her, there would never have been an empty space, or the need to fill it.”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

“I suppose sometimes in fiction we find the thing we need to raise our spirits, help us escape, and even teach us how to be brave.”
― Noelle Salazar, Angels of the Resistance

“There is no book we can read that will make us feel one hundred percent certain about the choices we make in war. Or in life. No guiding force to enlighten us. All we can do is our job. For the sake of the greater good. You just have to believe in the cause.”
― Noelle Salazar, Angels of the Resistance

“When Cass was younger, her grandmother used to tell her that the way she dressed was her calling card to the world. And she could use it to telegraph whatever information she wanted to share. Did she want to look mature? Carefree? Serious? Flirty? Like she was trying to impress someone? Or like she wasn't? You can play psychological games with what you wear, giving people a particular impression before you even open your mouth.”
― Jill Santopolo, Stars in an Italian Sky

“There are certain things that remind me of my destiny to raw dog American capitalism, get the same UTI over and over, and keep going back out of shame and lack of prospects. I skew pretty left, but I will wait in line at Space Mountain for an hour and foam at the mouth over the intellectual property of one of the world's vilest conglomerates. Their labor and integration practices are sick, their refusal to produce anything new is obnoxious, and when I see a princess at a theme park who has the same hair color as me, I pass out.”
― Jamie Loftus, Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs