G > G's Quotes

“Just because I'm a convict doesn't mean that I can't have nice things.”
― Kate Baker

“In the absence of facts, we tell ourselves stories.”
― Noah Hawley, Before the Fall

“It’s hard to be sad when you’re being useful.”
― Noah Hawley, Before the Fall

“What if the most traumatic or the most beautiful experiences we have trap us in a kind of feedback loop, where at least some part of our minds remain obsessed, even as our bodies move on?”
― Noah Hawley, Before the Fall

“She felt angry that her race was so stupid.”
― Luna Black

“It was my first lesson. Beneath the smooth, familiar face of things is another that waits to tear the world in two.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“Bold action and bold manner are not the same.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“Everyone believes he can fashion a witch to his way of thinking so that she will satisfy his ambitions, dreams, and desires...”
― Maryse Condé, I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem

“After a hundred years, the line between murderer and celebrity blurred to the point of nonexistence.”
― Steve McHugh, Crimes Against Magic

“You should date a girl who reads.
Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes, who has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve.

Find a girl who reads. You’ll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag. She’s the one lovingly looking over the shelves in the bookstore, the one who quietly cries out when she has found the book she wants. You see that weird chick sniffing the pages of an old book in a secondhand book shop? That’s the reader. They can never resist smelling the pages, especially when they are yellow and worn.

She’s the girl reading while waiting in that coffee shop down the street. If you take a peek at her mug, the non-dairy creamer is floating on top because she’s kind of engrossed already. Lost in a world of the author’s making. Sit down. She might give you a glare, as most girls who read do not like to be interrupted. Ask her if she likes the book.

Buy her another cup of coffee.

Let her know what you really think of Murakami. See if she got through the first chapter of Fellowship. Understand that if she says she understood James Joyce’s Ulysses she’s just saying that to sound intelligent. Ask her if she loves Alice or she would like to be Alice.

It’s easy to date a girl who reads. Give her books for her birthday, for Christmas, for anniversaries. Give her the gift of words, in poetry and in song. Give her Neruda, Pound, Sexton, Cummings. Let her know that you understand that words are love. Understand that she knows the difference between books and reality but by god, she’s going to try to make her life a little like her favorite book. It will never be your fault if she does.

She has to give it a shot somehow.

Lie to her. If she understands syntax, she will understand your need to lie. Behind words are other things: motivation, value, nuance, dialogue. It will not be the end of the world.

Fail her. Because a girl who reads knows that failure always leads up to the climax. Because girls who read understand that all things must come to end, but that you can always write a sequel. That you can begin again and again and still be the hero. That life is meant to have a villain or two.

Why be frightened of everything that you are not? Girls who read understand that people, like characters, develop. Except in the Twilight series.

If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She’ll talk as if the characters in the book are real, because for a while, they always are.

You will propose on a hot air balloon. Or during a rock concert. Or very casually next time she’s sick. Over Skype.

You will smile so hard you will wonder why your heart hasn’t burst and bled out all over your chest yet. You will write the story of your lives, have kids with strange names and even stranger tastes. She will introduce your children to the Cat in the Hat and Aslan, maybe in the same day. You will walk the winters of your old age together and she will recite Keats under her breath while you shake the snow off your boots.

Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable. If you can only give her monotony, and stale hours and half-baked proposals, then you’re better off alone. If you want the world and the worlds beyond it, date a girl who reads.

Or better yet, date a girl who writes.”
― Rosemarie Urquico

“Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.”
― Jane Austen

“Kids were free to go off on their own into places like the fucking forest. Yes, small child. Go take a walk. Kids were expected to go figure their shit out and compose themselves. When they were ready to stop being an asshole, they could join the family again.”
― Karen Kilgariff, Georgia Hardstark

“For girls, junior high is a daily dystopian nightmare of apocalyptic emotional warfare. Kill or be killed. Gossip or be gossiped about.”
― Karen Kilgariff, Georgia Hardstark

“Love is supposed to make you a little bonkers and batshit, but there's bad crazy and good crazy, and you realize which is which when you love someone who doesn't love you back.”
― Karen Kilgariff, Georgia Hardstark

“It was the point in my life when I realized that dudes who talk about their "crazy ex-girlfriend" are full of shit. What they're really talking about is someone they hurt and didn't leave the way they found.”
― Karen Kilgariff, Georgia Hardstark

“Essentially, straightforward, honest, and clean is the only way to break up with someone and have you both leave with your dignity intact. {...} This takes a TON of vulnerability because this process is awkward as fuck and feels shitty to both parties involved, but I swear if you buck the fuck up and break up like a civilized person, in the long run, unless they're a psychopath or total dick, you'll keep your soul somewhat unscathed and their ego and heart not broken beyond repair.”
― Karen Kilgariff, Georgia Hardstark

“When running late, "it's OK." When I have a million things to do and not enough time to do it, "it's OK." When I get stuck in a fantasy about plane crashes or normal girls, "it's OK." It's my mantra when I need to override the voice that tells me nothing I do is OK.”
― Karen Kilgariff, Georgia Hardstark

“If necessity is the mother of invention, then rebellion is her cool aunt.”
― Karen Kilgariff, Georgia Hardstark

“Save the shitstorm for every fifth visit. Practice bringing something else to the table. If people ask you about a problem, try out the phrase, "It's so crazy, I don't want to get into it. What's good with you?" Then if they have to know something, they'll insist you tell them, but usually people are just relieved.”
― Karen Kilgariff, Georgia Hardstark

“I know now that no matter how far into something you are, how many times you've agreed and moved forward, you can always decide to turn back. It's often not easy or comfortable, but you get to choose.”
― Georgia Hardstark, Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide

“The dull progression of an ordinary life that chipped away at a man a day at a time so that he didn't see the damage done until he found himself sitting alone in a house with nothing to show for it but the slow ticking of a clock on the wall.”
― Luanne G. Smith, The Vine Witch

“family name and perceived blessing. Mortal men. What flaw was it in their ape brains that convinced them their schemes were paramount to everyone else’s?”
― Luanne G. Smith, The Vine Witch

“But the worst thing she'd done to bring ruin to Château Renard was neglecting to pay her taxes. Nature could bend and accommodate a flaw, but the government would have its due.”
― Luanne G. Smith, The Vine Witch

“I say, 'I will not be your weakness, Sean Kendrick.'
Now he looks at me. He says, very softly, 'It's late for that, Puck.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races

“I always liked the idea of being such a bother that I affected even the weather.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races

“My hands are wet with the sky's swear.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races

“There are moments that you'll remember for the rest of your life, and there are moments that you think you'll remember for the rest of your life, and it's not often they turn out to be the same moments.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races

“What are you doing here on this night?"

"Meddling," I answer, because it's an answer that's difficult to argue with.”
― Maggie Stiefvater

“I wouldn't say the people in Skarmouth are rude as a rule, but beer makes people deaf.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races

“And suddenly Misha wished everyone were blind, every single person at that table with its clinking silver and hissing lamps. Because what good did seeing things do, really? For all their squinting, peering eyes, they did not know who was good and who was wicked, who was strong and who was cowardly, who was murdering in their house, and who was trying to save their lives. Eyes were tricks in bone boxed, but everyone believed them.”
― April Genevieve Tucholke, Slasher Girls & Monster Boys