My Favorite Terrible Thing Quotes

“Maybe it’s easier to be known superficially by millions than it is to be known very well by one.”
― Madeleine Henry, My Favorite Terrible Thing

“I never know in the moment what’s going to matter. It’s only looking back that I can tell which days counted a little bit more.”
― Madeleine Henry, My Favorite Terrible Thing

“I ask for some examples.”
― Madeleine Henry, My Favorite Terrible Thing

“fish, leaving pink sprays on the horizon. I’m leaning forward”
― Madeleine Henry, My Favorite Terrible Thing

“Her friends were people who she had these flashbulb connections with. One intense conversation. One memorable night. She built whole relationships out of . . . spare change, really.”
― Madeleine Henry, My Favorite Terrible Thing

“Our Hatred for Yale Outweighs Our Apathy for Football.”
― Madeleine Henry, My Favorite Terrible Thing

“novel is something that a writer lives with, something that receives their full attention for thousands of hours.”
― Madeleine Henry, My Favorite Terrible Thing

“photos on smartphones, taking everything in like”
― Madeleine Henry, My Favorite Terrible Thing

“running off in the dead of night . . .” I hear other”
― Madeleine Henry, My Favorite Terrible Thing

“Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.”
― Madeleine Henry, My Favorite Terrible Thing

“Jane Austen’s Persuasion, from the penultimate chapter. I can almost see it on the page, carrying a whole novel’s worth of anticipation: “I am half agony, half hope. Tell me that I am not too late.”
― Madeleine Henry, My Favorite Terrible Thing

“What am I avoiding with this obsession?”
― Madeleine Henry, My Favorite Terrible Thing

“relationships grow as a function of time spent”
― Madeleine Henry, My Favorite Terrible Thing

“And now we’re finding that trauma isn’t just about what happens to you. It’s about what doesn’t happen. It’s about all the good times that you didn’t have. All the good people who weren’t there.”
― Madeleine Henry, My Favorite Terrible Thing

“If Claire has a superpower, it’s belief.”
― Madeleine Henry, My Favorite Terrible Thing

“Claire devoted herself to the idea that everyone is the star of a multigenerational love story. That everyone has someone, an all-forgiving and permanent home for their soul. Even more fantastically, she thought other people might care about this idea too.”
― Madeleine Henry, My Favorite Terrible Thing