Beth > Beth's Quotes

“You won. You’re alive.”
― Robyn Lucas, Maybe She'll Stay

“Am I broken?” “Hell yeah. But who isn’t?”
― Robyn Lucas, Maybe She'll Stay

“I tried to examine my anxiety as if it were an item at the grocery cart. To read its label: a negative feeling that you don’t need. Put that package back on the shelf and breathe.”
― Ann Garvin, There's No Coming Back from This

“I used to think, ‘Why put in all that effort just for me?’ But I get it now.”
― Rachel Harrison, Cackle

“It feels like a hot flash, but now I’m beginning to understand what it really is. There’s something about a woman’s rage that feels very old, very primal. A man’s rage may be more physical, but a woman’s rage is born from centuries of violence. It calls across cultures. It calls across race. It is old, and hungry, and dark, and does not know its power. Yet. But wielded correctly, it can reduce men to snivelling little boys.”
― Joanne Harris, Broken Light

“Today she is the richest woman in the world; she has everything she could want; she loves and is loved,”
― Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water

“To the years ahead,” I say. “To the future.” And what a thing it is to know. My future is my own.”
― Rachel Harrison, Cackle

“Suicide only occurs to me calmly and out of the blue,”
― Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

“It is always consoling to think of suicide;
it’s what gets one through many a bad night.”
― Gillian Flynn, Dark Places

“I wish I could go back, wrap my arms around that woman I was then and protect her,”
― Katy Birchall, The Last Word

“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”
― Fitzgerald F. Scott, The Great Gatsby

“good things happen all the time, too. You just have to focus as much as you can on the good things.”
― Barbara O'Neal, The Starfish Sisters

“The things you don’t know when you’re young could break you into a million pieces if you let them.”
― Barbara O'Neal, The Starfish Sisters

“It can’t be that late already. It can’t be. She’s had all day, all night to say good-bye to him and she hasn’t even begun.”
― Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water

“Mental illness isn’t personal, it’s illness.” Going on to say, “You wouldn’t take another person’s diabetes as a slight against you, would you?”
― Ann Garvin, There's No Coming Back from This

“Whatever all else comes and goes—memories, parents, houses, children—the truth I’m left with is this: I am mine. What if that was enough?”
― Ann Garvin, There's No Coming Back from This

“I’m happy,” I say to him or maybe to myself. Then I say it again because it’s true and because I like the way it sounds.”
― Rachel Harrison, Cackle

“There’s so much life and it just keeps going. Maybe not everyone’s life, but Life. It doesn’t stop for anyone.”
― Grady Hendrix, The Final Girl Support Group

“Because no matter how hard we try, we can’t stop life. No matter how much we fight, no matter how many we kill, things keep changing, and growing, and living, and people get lost, and fall away, and come back, and get born, and move on, and no matter what it’s all so much, it’s all so hard, the way life just keeps going and going.”
― Grady Hendrix, The Final Girl Support Group

“Because I was happy in my own skin, I was happy for her.”
― Barbara O'Neal, The Starfish Sisters

“Don’t take things away from yourself before you even get to enjoy them.”
― Barbara O'Neal, The Starfish Sisters

“I learned to impress boys,” I say. “Darling,” she says, “you’re in desperate need of new motivation.”
― Rachel Harrison, Cackle

“As a kid, reading had been a chance to escape, to get lost in a fantasy for a while. Until he’d been forced to turn his light out, and reality had come crashing back. As an adult, he’d only recently enjoyed returning to the pastime and it had brought back all those feelings from his childhood: comfort, a feeling of security. If he had a book in his hand, he didn’t feel lonely.”
― Kathryn Freeman, The Beach Reads Book Club

“She thought that men such as her father could be stern and men could be cold like Virgil, but women needed to be liked or they’d be in trouble. A woman who is not liked is a bitch, and a bitch can hardly do anything: all avenues are closed to her.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic

“It’s not your job to make me happy, okay? You can’t make anyone happy. I’m happy just because you exist, and that’s as much of my happiness as you have control over.”
― Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation

“They’re so excited for one day in a pretty dress,” I say. “Someone really should tell them. They can wear a pretty dress whenever they want.”
― Rachel Harrison, Cackle

“What the fuck?” he keeps saying. “What the fuck?” “I gave you so much of myself,” I say, “and you wasted me.” His face. Such pure, exquisite horror. Such fear. I don’t mind. He fears me because he is small. I will not meet him there. I will not shrink myself down to his size, or anyone else’s, for their comfort. For their appeasement.”
― Rachel Harrison, Cackle

“And so kissing her became a matter of self-preservation. It was simple. If he did not kiss her now, if he did not consume her, he would die.”
― Julia Quinn, The Duke and I

“He whispered her name, touched her cheek. Her eyes widened, lips parted. And in the end, it was inevitable.”
― Julia Quinn, The Duke and I

“I’ve always felt like once someone sees me deep down, that’s it. There’s something ugly in there, or unlovable, and you’re the only person who’s ever made me feel like I’m okay.”
― Emily Henry, You and Me on Vacation