Abigail > Abigail's Quotes

“It’s strange to know that whenever I remember myself at fifteen, I’ll think of this.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“I ain't gonna lie and say I get you, because I don't. I can't even pretend I know what it must be like to be... you. But if all this has taught me one thing, it's that it ain't about me and what I get. It's about letting people be who they are. And being who you are shouldn't be a death sentence.”
― S.A. Cosby, Razorblade Tears

“No, hate. Folks like to talk about revenge like it’s a righteous thing but it’s just hate in a nicer suit,”
― S.A. Cosby, Razorblade Tears

“I think I’d been looking for it all my life
a storm in my body to match the one in my head.”
― Rory Power, Wilder Girls

“Girl, every choice we make is a new tomorrow. Whole worlds waiting to be born.”
― P. Djèlí Clark, Ring Shout

“And her sleep was too long and deep for that:so deep that she left her normal reality behind.”
― Haruki Murakami, After Dark

“am in a body. It is not the one I came here with, but it is the one I’ll leave here in. I will take care of it. It belongs to me now. My pain, I will take care of it. It belongs to me now.”
― Amber Tamblyn, Any Man

“The universe is against us, which makes sense. So we get another McFlurry and talk about how fat we are for a while.”
― Mona Awad, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl

“The only person who knew your weak spots better than the woman who raised you was the woman who shared your bed.”
― S.A. Cosby, Blacktop Wasteland

“I've learned not to make comparisons. Hell is hell, in all it's incarnations.”
― Jennifer Hillier, Little Secrets

“I wish you more happiness than can fit in a person.”
― Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

“The word felt dangerous, and also powerful, as if uttering it would summon someone or something”
― Malinda Lo, Last Night at the Telegraph Club

“You probably don't remember that, do you? Depression has a way of vaporizing big parts of your memory. Important parts.”
― Drew Magary, The Hike

“Kids are mirrors, reflecting back everything that happens to them. You’ve got to make sure they’re surrounded by good things.”
― Catriona Ward, Sundial

“Moms are like the desert, too. Sometimes you can’t stop them.”
― Catriona Ward, Sundial

“Tears ran from his eyes and stung his cheeks. Tears for his son. Tears for his wife. Tears for the little girl they had to raise. Tears for who they were and what they all had lost. Each drop felt like it was slicing his face open like a razorblade.”
― S.A. Cosby, Razorblade Tears

“Why do you lie so much? And about the weirdest little things?", my mother always asked me. "I don’t know", I always said. But I did know. It was very simple. Because it was a better story.”
― Mona Awad, Bunny

“She was a great girl-shaped forest. She was a thing on fire. Her hand was leaves and smoke and snow and flesh all at once.”
― Mona Awad, Bunny

“We're more than the sum total of our choices, that all the paths we might have taken factor somehow into the math of our identity.”
― Blake Crouch, Dark Matter

“We all live day to day completely oblivious to the fact that we’re a part of a much larger and stranger reality than we can possibly imagine.”
― Blake Crouch, Dark Matter

“As long as I'm with you, I know exactly who I am.”
― Blake Crouch, Dark Matter

“History doesn’t quite repeat itself, but damn, it sure can rhyme.”
― Taylor Adams, No Exit

“And there you have it. The children were on their way. They would never return.”
― Grégoire Courtois, The Laws of the Skies

“When no decision can be made, we go along with the decisions of those we trust, and if there is no one to trust, we follow the ones we love.”
― Grégoire Courtois, The Laws of the Skies

“Before you become an adult, everything is off limits, and, once you become one, you aren’t allowed to do anything because you have to be responsible. When in life are we finally free? For good?”
― Grégoire Courtois, The Laws of the Skies

“Don’t you ever want to start over? To go back to being the child our children are today and make choices other than the ones we made? Good or bad, just other choices.”
― Grégoire Courtois, The Laws of the Skies

“You have two choices when you’re confronted with your every last fear:

Give up or fight like hell.”
― Alex Finlay, Every Last Fear

“The horror comes not only from turning our gaze on desperate populations; it comes from realizing the extent of our blindness.”
― Mariana Enríquez, Things We Lost in the Fire

“Maybe I wasn’t the princess in her castle; maybe I was a madwoman locked in her tower.”
― Mariana Enríquez, Things We Lost in the Fire

“He tried to hate all of humanity for being so fragile and ephemeral but he couldn't keep it up because hating everyone is the same as hating no one.”
― Agustina Bazterrica, Cadáver exquisito