The Followers Quotes

“Women need other women. To laugh with, to cry with, to tell us when our skirt is see-through, to binge-watch Outlander and drink wine and eat too many peanut M&Ms. We need women who show up in our lives, who are present through the best and the worst.”
― Bradeigh Godfrey, The Followers

“Molly gave a small nod. “We should never regret loving someone with our whole heart, no matter what happens. Otherwise we’re only living life halfway.”
― Bradeigh Godfrey, The Followers

“Her house was broken into, her daughter threatened, her husband shot a man in front of her, then disappeared. And then all this crap from his past—her husband’s ex-girlfriend, the daughter he kidnapped, all of that. It’s insane. I think we can give her a little respectful space, right?”
― Bradeigh Godfrey, The Followers

“I guarantee she’ll find some way to capitalize on all this attention. She’s a narcissist. Without the world fawning at her feet, she’ll wilt like a basket of daisies.”
― Bradeigh Godfrey, The Followers

“To connect? To be vulnerable?” He shook his head. “You can’t use your social media skills to get through this. This is real life.”
― Bradeigh Godfrey, The Followers

“More than anything else he’d said during this conversation, this rankled. The assumption that she had no ability to discern between appropriate and inappropriate things to post online. Proof of his years of secrets—and her own idiocy—was not at the top of her list of things to share with the world. And the weary resignation in his voice, as if she were an irritating teenager with a bad habit of gossiping. As if her tendency to overshare online was equal to his years of deception.”
― Bradeigh Godfrey, The Followers

“They start out super relatable and likable (I mean, not to me, but to some people obviously). But little by little, as their fame grows, it shifts. They lose relatability as they get more popular. That’s when they start doing product placement for stupid shit like organic fruit snacks and down comforters. Soon everything seems like an ad. Even the supposedly candid moments feel scripted. Curated imperfection, ya know?”
― Bradeigh Godfrey, The Followers

“away, too. Gran had done her best. Her daughter had been in prison, her granddaughter brutally murdered, her great-granddaughter missing. Yet she’d still managed to put one foot in front of the other, taking care of Liv and Oliver’s physical needs, if not their emotional ones.”
― Bradeigh Godfrey, The Followers

“I share them because it’s my job. It’s how I make my living.” “Great way to make a living—selling yourself to the world!” “Selling myself! Do you have any idea how insulting that”
― Bradeigh Godfrey, The Followers

“Nothing more than a watered-down version of feel-good Self Esteem culture mixed with a pep talk for the Instagram generation. Useless, nonsensical, ridiculous drivel.”
― Bradeigh Godfrey, The Followers

“Liv always wondered if the press would have cared more if the murdered woman had been white, blond, and blue-eyed, a Kristin instead of a Kristina. And if the kidnapped baby hadn’t been little black-haired Gabriela Casillas.”
― Bradeigh Godfrey, The Followers

“Scott,” she said, smiling even as she tried to look severe, “this is what people do—they move to a new house, they meet the neighbors. They host parties and serve hamburgers and fill drinks and chit-chat.” Scott grinned. “All right. For you? Entertaining hordes of people I barely know sounds like a great idea.”
― Bradeigh Godfrey, The Followers

“She was supposed to be Gabriela Casillas—Kristina had given her baby her last name, to honor her father and their Puerto Rican roots. Obliterating that, turning her into the generic Ella Wander? It made Liv sick.”
― Bradeigh Godfrey, The Followers

“sure hope he has a day job,” he’d said, unaware that Molly brought in more money than his own dental practice.”
― Bradeigh Godfrey, The Followers

“She wasn’t the type who could sit still, which she worried would drive Scott crazy. What if he realized he’d made a gigantic mistake in marrying her? He would discover she was neurotic and attention-seeking, loud and needy, that she had horrible PMS and bad morning breath.”
― Bradeigh Godfrey, The Followers

“No matter how authentic I try to be online, I’m still only showing the highlight reel of my life. You don’t see all the stuff dropped on the cutting room floor. So please, please don’t compare your outtakes with everyone else’s highlight reel.”
― Bradeigh Godfrey, The Followers

“Our niece is being raised by the man who brutally murdered her mother. He should spend the rest of his life in prison. This is about what’s best for Gabriela. Kristina would have wanted us to take care of her.”
― Bradeigh Godfrey, The Followers

“Was it weird that she’d become more comfortable interacting with people online than in real life?”
― Bradeigh Godfrey, The Followers

“The kind who found hole-in-the-wall restaurants and locals-only bars, who spent time off the beaten track and came away with new friends everywhere he went.”
― Bradeigh Godfrey, The Followers

“To be a millennial today means existing in two realities, living your life while also observing it, constantly questioning if these experiences are sharable or not. The walls between public and private spaces are so thin they are nearly nonexistent. Where does”
― Bradeigh Godfrey, The Followers

“Brookelle—whip-smart, scarily sarcastic, and eight years younger than Molly—hated talking on the phone, saying it was for grandmas and poor people, like bar soap.”
― Bradeigh Godfrey, The Followers

“Their mom, a woman so dysfunctional she’d named her son Oliver, not realizing until several days after the birth certificate was signed that she already had a daughter named Olivia. No, Ollie and Liv had learned early in childhood to rely on each other.”
― Bradeigh Godfrey, The Followers

“Her sister had been beaten, strangled, and ultimately died from trauma to the head. And her murderer was alive and smiling.”
― Bradeigh Godfrey, The Followers

“What she disliked was the feeling she got in nursing homes: too many people who had been discarded, unwanted. It was all too familiar; she’d felt that way most of her life, growing up without a stable family, passed between various relatives. Always on the outside.”
― Bradeigh Godfrey, The Followers

“guess showing your bad dye job is called being authentic and vulnerable ”
― Bradeigh Godfrey, The Followers

“Our society has become fragmented—women used to live in these tight-knit communities with their sisters and mothers and aunts and cousins, but now we’re all isolated. I think women are looking for that sense of connection in social media.”
― Bradeigh Godfrey, The Followers

“Here’s the thing about posting something online: once it’s out there, you can never take it back. It belongs to the world now, not just to you.”
― Bradeigh Godfrey, The Followers

“Molly reminded herself to imagine them as individuals. Mothers, daughters, friends, sisters, and wives with their own hopes, dreams, and fears. All tuning in, looking to her for advice.”
― Bradeigh Godfrey, The Followers

“Liv can’t believe her sister would do that, not after everything they experienced growing up with their own mother, an addict who had three children with three different men and who has been in and out of prison for years.”
― Bradeigh Godfrey, The Followers