The List Quotes

“Sometimes, when you get something new, you trick yourself into believing it has the power to change absolutely everything about you.”
― Siobhan Vivian, The List

“That's how inside jokes usually are. Funny to those inside, annoying as shit to the rest of the world.”
― Siobhan Vivian, The List

“It didn't matter if i was the kind of girl who had sex, or the kind of girl who had her portrait on on a wall in the library, or the kind of girl who who got into the best college, or the kind of girl who didn't tell her parents everything, or the kind of girl who teachers loved.
I just needed to be okay with all the kinds of girl I was.”
― Siobhan Vivian, The List

“Maybe you haven't noticed, but everyone shares the same brain around here. It's like a mass cult. They've all drunk the Kool-Aid.”
― Siobhan Vivian, The List

“Principal Colby puts the tiara on Margo's head.
She's surprised by the weight.
Obviously the rhinestones wouldn't be diamonds, but Margo had always assumed the tiara would be metal.
It isn't.
It is plastic.”
― Siobhan Vivian, The List

“She pushes all the pain out of her arms, kicks the hurt free from her legs. She swims her broken heart out.”
― Siobhan Vivian, The List

“They don't understand that it's hard to be her, to be shopping with them.
Like when Dana had pointed out a pair of jeans that Jennifer HAD to try, before darting into another section. Skinny girls can walk by a table full of pants, piled in high stacks, and peel a pair off the top. Easy. Effortless. But not girls like Jennifer.”
― Siobhan Vivian, The List

“All of her aunts said that Bridget looked exactly like her mother as a teenager. Staring at her, Bridget realised she had no memories of her mother being thin.”
― Siobhan Vivian, The List

“Survival of the generic.”
― Siobhan Vivian, The List

“No one was more stunned by the choice than her mother, who claimed to the saleswoman that she hadn't seen Danielle that dressed up since her first Communion.”
― Siobhan Vivian, The List

“It annoys her how easily Dana can forget the past.
But it also makes Margo jealous. Because she can't.”
― Siobhan Vivian, The List

“Remember at the junior picnic, when someone whipped that dog at Jennifer's head? And Jennifer was laughing, like it was funny? Ted never copped to it, but I know he did it. I saw him. A-hole.'
Rachel shakes her head in disgust. 'She probably deals with that kind of crap every day...'
'That's it. I'm going to ask Jennifer if she wants to sit with us today... I don't like those little turds thinking they can make fun of her because she's on the list. Don't they have any respect for the fact that she's a senior? If she's with us, they wouldn't dare say anything.”
― Siobhan Vivian, The List

“Bridget is Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Two sides of herself, always arguing. She is tired of the fight, the constant struggle between a muddied version of good and evil, where right feels wrong and wrong feels really good.”
― Siobhan Vivian, The List

“destiny.”
― Siobhan Vivian, The List

“This last bit is proof. Proof that Milo doesn't really get her. He never did.”
― Siobhan Vivian, The List

“She sank to the floor and tried rubbing away the burn. If anyone saw ther, they'd think she'd been crying.”
― Siobhan Vivian, The List

“Please don’t, she shouts inside herself. Please don’t say anything about the list.”
― Siobhan Vivian, The List

“No.” Sarah puts her hands on her hips. “I don’t care about you, Jennifer. I just feel bad for you. For buying into this whole bullshit circus. I don’t give a crap what you do. And I don’t pretend otherwise. Now get the fuck away from my bench.”
― Siobhan Vivian, The List

“The list is so powerful, its judgment so absolute, and yet no one wants to deal with it in black Sharpie on her face.”
― Siobhan Vivian, The List

“It can reduce an entire female population down to three clear-cut groups. Prettiest. Ugliest. And everyone else.”
― Siobhan Vivian, The List

“She pushes all the pain out of her arms, kicks the hurt free from”
― Siobhan Vivian, The List

“And pretty on the outside is what really counts. Pretty on the outside is what everyone sees. One”
― Siobhan Vivian, The List

“What was so different between the list and homecoming? Both were stupid beauty contests, except one was school-sanctioned.”
― Siobhan Vivian, The List

“But Abby won’t. She won’t ever help Fern after what Fern has done to her. As far as she’s concerned, they are no longer sisters.”
― Siobhan Vivian, The List

“And it is Fern’s fault.”
― Siobhan Vivian, The List

“Would Principal Colby bring up the list in front of her mother? Lauren”
― Siobhan Vivian, The List

“Jealous of what? That I’m not the popular group’s ugly little mascot? It’s a joke, Jennifer. At your expense! You should be telling these people to fuck off. They’re using you. They’re laughing at you behind your back! They’ve treated you like shit for four years, and you’re basically giving them a free pass because they’re dangling some pathetic, rotten carrot in front of your face. It doesn’t matter if they give you a rhinestone crown or not. They all think you’re ugly.”
― Siobhan Vivian, The List

“People are starting to wonder if maybe you were the one to make the list. And now you’re pissed off that it’s backfiring. Because Jennifer might win homecoming queen instead of you.”
― Siobhan Vivian, The List

“I heard that every time Sarah takes a shit, she saves it in a plastic bag and she’s planning to throw it on the homecoming court.”
― Siobhan Vivian, The List

“She has clearly died and gone to heaven. Jennifer gets her books, hangs up her jacket, and closes her locker.”
― Siobhan Vivian, The List