Sol > Sol's Quotes

“I hear a ticking sound.
Something inside of me is
going to end very soon.
But I'm not afraid.
I knew about it all along.”
― Kyōko Okazaki, Helter Skelter

“It’s going to be okay, this solitude, this lovelessness, this schoollessness, this unstructure, this floating, this sinking.”
― Rebecca Dinerstein Knight, Hex

“Never let anyone make you feel ordinary.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“You do not know how fast you have been running, how hard you have been working, how truly exhausted you are, until somewhat stands behind you and says, “It’s OK, you can fall down now. I’ll catch you.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“Sometimes reality comes crashing down on you. Other times reality simply waits, patiently, for you to run out of the energy it takes to deny it.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“And it will be the tragedy of my life that I cannot love you enough to make you mine. That you cannot be loved enough to be anyone’s.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“Why have I spent so long settling for less when I know damn well the world expects more?”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“Which is about the cruelest thing you can do to someone you love, give them just enough good to make them stick through a hell of a lot of bad.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“But I could not look away. Nor did I think I wanted to, even if impulse whispered to run.”
― S.D. Simper, Carmilla and Laura

“Now, I felt I had lost something I’d never even held.”
― S.D. Simper, Carmilla and Laura

“I had missed you all my life.”
― S.D. Simper, Carmilla and Laura

“It pained me, her hand wrapping around the tender, beating something beneath it, as though her fingers ruptured holes within my chest, but I could not bear to have her leave.”
― S.D. Simper, Carmilla and Laura

“I could have bathed in every piece of her, but I was left parched for thirst.”
― S.D. Simper, Carmilla and Laura

“Some ineffable piece of me had gone, rewritten by her touch, and what had been stolen was patched by a piece of her, some bit of her heart I had unknowingly taken with me.”
― S.D. Simper, Carmilla and Laura

“To savor every moment together would be enough. It would have to be enough.”
― S.D. Simper, Carmilla and Laura

“You give in to your passions with the fearlessness of one already damned”
― S.D. Simper, Carmilla and Laura

“It was a voice you could snag your sweater on, or perhaps chip one of your teeth, but it was also sweet enough to suck on, to sleep with in your mouth.”
― Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

“All I’m saying is that trauma doesn’t get you a lifelong get-out-of-jail-free card. It also doesn’t necessarily confer wisdom, or the right to pontificate,”
― Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

“He also recommended she quit caffeine and nicotine. Instead, Greta quit therapy.”
― Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

“I’m not attached to my suffering. I’m not attached to what happened to me. I don’t believe it explains everything about me, because I haven’t made it part of my identity.”
― Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

“Greta considered her own behavior around red flags. Her habit was not to ignore them so much as to ingest them, a somewhat laborious mental production that involved placing them in a stockpot with butter, herbs, and mirepoix; cooking over low heat without browning; adding red meat, additional red flags, a jug of red wine; and voilà, four hours at a lazy simmer later, an extremely rich red-flag stew that she forked into her mouth every day like a fucking moron, sometimes for years on end.”
― Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

“Om tells his clients that a romantic partner mirrors how you feel about yourself. Stacy was a skinny mirror. He made me look—and feel—better than I actually looked or felt, which is why breaking his heart has probably given me seven years of bad luck.”
― Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

“You bullied other bullies,” Greta said. Big Swiss nodded.
“Well, I hope you’ll protect me from… yourself.”
― Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

“¿Habla más de un idioma?” Luke said in a low voice.
“Por supuesto no,” Big Swiss said.
“Que te pasa, cariño,” Luke said. “Estás actuando rara.”
“Ninguna cosa,” Big Swiss said, and shook her head. “Te diré después.”
Was she having an auditory hallucination, or were they really speaking Spanish?
“Hola,” Greta chimed in. “Feliz Navidad.”
― Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

“She and Big Swiss were just passing the time, apparently, taking turns looking at each other on their way to somewhere else.”
― Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

“People are, it seems, too complicated to sit still inside a narrative, but that hasn’t stopped anyone from trying, desperately trying, to compact a life into pages.”
― Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

“I do not belong to the era of writers who will be able to make any sense of this particularly turbulent chapter of American history; one cannot make a bed while still tangled in its sheets.”
― Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

“This cowardice, unknowingness in the face of my own feelings is why I betray those I love, verbally, when I refused to express my feelings for them.”
― Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

“I had ceded all control of my life to this feeling of a storm approaching and the glad certainty it would demolish everything I knew.”
― Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

“She was always human, difficult as it was for me to admit that; I made so much trouble for myself by refusing to see it.”
― Catherine Lacey, Biography of X