The Bargaining Quotes

“If I could erase it all, I would. But here’s the thing about 'would'. It’s the most useless word in the entire dictionary because it has no place in any point in time. It’s a stand-in for an imaginary space between what might happen and what actually happens.”
― Carly Anne West, The Bargaining

“It’s not just bad people who do bad things.”
― Carly Anne West, The Bargaining

“When you're little, you can't see all the walls, you know? You just see acres and acres of space, and it's all yours to run. You can do cartwheels and build forts and bury treasure to find later. But something happens when you get older. You start to see the walls. Maybe it's because you get taller or something. And then you see the cracks, you see how unstable it all is. And you try to test the walls' strength, and you pull a little chunk of it out, and pretty soon, all the sides tumble down, and then you're buried under all of it.”
― Carly Anne West, The Bargaining

“Sarcasm is a shortcut for saying what you really want to say,” she says, and I know from the way she says it that she recently read that somewhere. “Sarcasm is my native tongue,” I say. “English is my second language.”
― Carly Anne West, The Bargaining

“She didn’t believe me when I told her between all the smoke and dust that night that the letters weren’t the full story of us that I’d written. Instead, she got the benefit of careful revision and erased pencil marks that formed the words I wanted to say perfectly, but left out all the doubt about what I was writing, which was just as true. A soft”
― Carly Anne West, The Bargaining

“But here's the thing about 'would.' It's the most useless word in the entire dictionary because it has no place in any point in time. It's a stand-in for an imaginary space between what might happen and what actually happens.”
― Carly Anne West, The Bargaining