The End of Everything Quotes

“Running so hard, her breath stippled with pain to go faster, hit the grass harder, move forward faster, like she could break through something in front of her, something no one else saw.”
― Megan Abbott, The End of Everything

“If we look at it from eye corners, or from places other than the center of our head, isn’t there a kind of terrible beauty in it?”
― Megan Abbott, The End of Everything

“I feel a shaking in me, and it's the ground. It's like the ground is shaking and I will slip through.

Then, in a flash, his hands reach out and, like in a movie, really, the coffee cup falls to the cement steps with a sharp crack, and he grabs my arms and his face is filled with everything that is urgent and loving and meaningful in the world.

I feel so powerful, like a god, thunderbolt in hand.

And my thunderbolt hit.”
― Megan Abbott, The End of Everything

“Then she said sometimes the ways boys need things so badly, like they could never stop needing, it almost scared her.”
― Megan Abbott, The End of Everything

“There wasn't much to know. Now there's less.”
― Megan Abbott, The End of Everything

“Like all that you are is the wanting, and the rest of you just burns away?”
― Megan Abbott, The End of Everything

“Things can get pretty rough out there," he says. "Can't they? For you girls? You're all a bunch of warriors, aren't you? Lionhearted.”
― Megan Abbott, The End of Everything

“This girl, this girl, and he a man with a business and a secretary and a house with a furnace and bills and a son and a roof with three shingles and a pretty birdpath made of stone that I sometimes see Mrs.Shaw, her tied back with a scarf, cleaning with a dainty skimmer.
How does this man, a man like this, like any of them, come to walk at night and stand in a girl’s backyard, and then, smoking and looking up, suddenly feel himself helpless to bher bright magic?”
― megan abbott, The End of Everything

“The narrator, thirteen-year-old Lizzie, is so close to her best friend, Evie Verver, that she even feels at times like they share a skin, and the enchantment of the Verver family is a spell she is sure will never break. All her ideas of life come from her time with them, in particular the warm glow Mr. Verver, Evie’s handsome dad, casts on the family, the home. Without even realizing all this (really, until just now), all my feelings of Meg and her family flooded the book, and how could they not? These early relationships, the way we think they will stay the same forever (we need to believe they will)—they matter. They form us. And, when they fall apart, we have to do the hard work of building ourselves back up all on our own.”
― Megan Abbott, The End of Everything

“And the family that seemed so perfect began to suffer through small and then large tragedies—a wayward sister gone more wayward, the parents’ separation and then divorce, and, most terrible of all, the death of Meg’s older brother in a boating accident. There’s something so intense about these relationships we have with other families during our formative years, and that’s one of the main things I wanted to explore in The End of Everything.”
― Megan Abbott, The End of Everything

“blood slips down her chin, and I start to feel dizzy. I look”
― Megan Abbott, The End of Everything