Georgia Clark > Georgia's Quotes

“In New York, everything was permissible. No one cared what you wore, how you looked. Only you cared about those things. And if they didn’t worry you, then they didn’t matter.”
― Georgia Clark

“There was only one thought that settled, as calmly as a cat finding a spot of sun to sleep in. One word that felt inevitable, as they kissed and nibbled and quietly laughed with the delirium of it. Home.”
― Georgia Clark, The Regulars

“Love lifts you up where we belong, but it can also break you into teeny, tiny pieces, and then you need your best friend and a bunch of wine to put you back together again.”
― Georgia Clark, The Regulars

“Owning her face, unapologetically, or—even more revolutionarily—happily was the bravest thing she could possibly do.”
― Georgia Clark

“I’m using beauty to subvert the system.”
― Georgia Clark, The Regulars

“The most intimate moments in the world don't happen in nightclubs or backstage or even on the movie screen. They were moments like this: sitting silently, comfortably, holding hands on a darkened bedroom floor.”
― Georgia Clark, She's with the Band

“It is possible to be in love with you just because of who you are.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver

“Out here we speak Malspeak, a mangle of English and old languages like Spanish, Mandarin, and Russian. Dialects from a time when the land was defined by many borders. Now there’s only one that matters. And I am on the wrong side of it.”
― Georgia Clark, Parched

“Technology won’t protect you from being attacked for fresh water. A badass blade will. Back in Eden where I grew up, the closest thing to knifework I’d experienced was cutting up a loaf of warm bread. Last night, I’d gutted a wild prairie chicken after scaling a rock face to find its nest and slit its throat.
What a difference a year makes.”
― Georgia Clark, Parched

“We’re a nonviolent collective working to undermine the Trust and free the Badlands. Once the Trust is exposed as lying and corrupt, we believe Edenites will do the right thing. Open the borders. Save the Badlands.” Ling lowers her voice with deliberate control. “Kudzu is going to destroy something called Aevum.”
― Georgia Clark, Parched

“A mix of revenge, sadness and anger funnels into a decision that’s so simple and neat, it could fit in my pocket. I will help Kudzu destroy Aevum. Just like Magnus destroyed my mother.”
― Georgia Clark, Parched

“My fingers find his. They are warm, pulsing with genetically altered blue blood, powered by mirror matter.”
― Georgia Clark, Parched

“I smile broadly, feeling as warm and full as the sun.”
― Georgia Clark, Parched

“I can almost see the processes whirrling clunkily in his singularix, as his excited nervous system battled with his logic circuits.”
― Georgia Clark, Parched

“I focus all my energy into become a faster, stronger, and better version of myself.”
― Georgia Clark

“I catch movement from the corner of my eye. A tell slender boy stands near us, just a few feet away. Adrenaline bangs through my system. I shove Abel behind me and whip my knife from where I’d hidden it in my boot. “Who the hell are you?”
― Georgia Clark

“Life is always either a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.”
― Edith Wharton

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“But I think the first real change in women’s body image came when JLo turned it butt-style. That was the first time that having a large-scale situation in the back was part of mainstream American beauty. Girls wanted butts now. Men were free to admit that they had always enjoyed them. And then, what felt like moments later, boom—Beyoncé brought the leg meat. A back porch and thick muscular legs were now widely admired. And from that day forward, women embraced their diversity and realized that all shapes and sizes are beautiful. Ah ha ha. No. I’m totally messing with you. All Beyonce and JLo have done is add to the laundry list of attributes women must have to qualify as beautiful. Now every girl is expected to have Caucasian blue eyes, full Spanish lips, a classic button nose, hairless Asian skin with a California tan, a Jamaican dance hall ass, long Swedish legs, small Japanese feet, the abs of a lesbian gym owner, the hips of a nine-year-old boy, the arms of Michelle Obama, and doll tits. The person closest to actually achieving this look is Kim Kardashian, who, as we know, was made by Russian scientists to sabotage our athletes.”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

“I find it poor logic to say that because women are good, women should vote. Men do not vote because they are good; they vote because they are male, and women should vote, not because we are angels and men are animals, but because we are human beings and citizens of this country.”
― Louisa May Alcott

“You are a goddess. You are a catch. You are, like, the outcome of every self-help book ever written.”
― Georgia Clark, The Regulars

“There’s no such thing as ugly.”
― Georgia Clark, The Regulars

“What do you think Amy Poehler is doing right now?”
― Georgia Clark, The Regulars

“We need role models who look like real girls.”
― Georgia Clark, The Regulars

“She was a professional. A professional who didn’t need five inches of makeup and f*ck-me cleavage to do her job.”
― Georgia Clark, The Regulars

“We. Had. Sex. So the least you can do is acknowledge my existence. Because that’s what grown-ups do. Common. F*cking. Courtesy.”
― Georgia Clark, The Regulars

“She was a road trip without a map.”
― Georgia Clark, The Regulars

“Her mouth connected with his. Everything inside her collapsed and was constructed, simultaneously.”
― Georgia Clark, The Regulars

“I take a swig of booze. "I didn't do it. The surgery." "I heard," he says. "Can I ask why not?" I shrug, not because I don't know but because I don't feel like rehashing his role in my decision. "You know when you're hanging out with people and you have to leave early? Everyone tells you to stay, but you have to co, so you do a round of goodbyes and hugs and everything. Then, you're at the door, and you glance back, and you want everyone to still be staring after you, waving. But they've all already gone back to their conversation. You're not missed at all." I gaze out at the ocean, the endless shifting expanse. "That's what makes me feel sad about dying. That after I'm gone and everyone has said goodbye, life just goes on without me." "You're worried about leaving a legacy?" Cooper asks. "What you'll be remembered for?" "More like, I'll just miss life. Life. I'll miss being a part of it. I'll miss weddings and the ocean and music and champagne. I'll miss the drama and the gossip and the news and New York. I'll just miss it.”
― Georgia Clark, The Bucket List

“I take a swig of booze. "I didn't do it. The surgery." "I heard," he says. "Can I ask why not?" I shrug, not because I don't know but because I don't feel like rehashing his role in my decision. "You know when you're hanging out with people and you have to leave early? Everyone tells you to stay, but you have to go, so you do a round of goodbyes and hugs and everything. Then, you're at the door, and you glance back, and you want everyone to still be staring after you, waving. But they've all already gone back to their conversation. You're not missed at all." I gaze out at the ocean, the endless shifting expanse. "That's what makes me feel sad about dying. That after I'm gone and everyone has said goodbye, life just goes on without me." "You're worried about leaving a legacy?" Cooper asks. "What you'll be remembered for?" "More like, I'll just miss life. Life. I'll miss being a part of it. I'll miss weddings and the ocean and music and champagne. I'll miss the drama and the gossip and the news and New York. I'll just miss it.”
― Georgia Clark, The Bucket List