Susan, You're The Chosen One Quotes

“One of the worst parts of getting older as a woman these days was being dismissed as a “Karen” if you complained about anything. It was so unfair. Sure, there were lots of entitled women who needed to mind their own damn business, except the name was thrown around like confetti and used as a pejorative to dismiss and belittle any woman who complained about anything. It wouldn’t bother me so much if there was a male equivalent to a Karen, but there wasn’t. Well, there was. He wasn’t called a Karen, though. He was called an “active shooter.”
― Lauretta Hignett, Susan, You're The Chosen One

“If I hadn't already danced on the edge of total oblivion, I would probably be quite scared right now. When you laugh in the face of madness, you’re not easily intimidated.”
― Lauretta Hignett, Susan, You're The Chosen One

“Honesty without compassion is just cruelty,” I told her. “And we all know that with you, Juliette, the cruelty is the point.”
― Lauretta Hignett, Susan, You're The Chosen One

“Donovan nodded slowly. “And if it does not work, we can kill this Jessica tyrant,” he said softly. “We will ‘tag’ her publicly.” “Um…” I’d been wondering how much of what I was saying he would understand. “Let’s call that plan B.”
― Lauretta Hignett, Susan, You're The Chosen One

“Ex-husband.” My stomach churned. My bowels felt watery, like I desperately needed to poop all of a sudden”
― Lauretta Hignett, Susan, You're The Chosen One

“How am I supposed to know who’s at my door, then?” He sniffed. “They should have made a prior appointment with you, like a civilized person. Then you’d know exactly who it was.”
― Lauretta Hignett, Susan, You're The Chosen One

“You give a human a whiff of oil on an anthill, and they’re going to invade, kill the creatures inside it, colonize it, then rewrite the history books to show that they’ve always been there.”
― Lauretta Hignett, Susan, You're The Chosen One

“The elevator had taken Donovan and Cress to the thirteenth floor. “Oh, no,” I said, chuckling. “Not vampires. They’re lawyers. Vladovich and Sangine are a law firm.”
― Lauretta Hignett, Susan, You're The Chosen One

“This meeting could have been an email.
This email could have been a cage fight.”
― Lauretta Hignett, Susan, You're The Chosen One

“No, Donovan,” I said patiently. “She’s a woman with power, and you’re going to insult her and bring her down and call her a witch and a monster. Well, I’ve got news for you, buddy.” I wagged my finger at him. “You can’t silence us anymore. Gone are the days where you can take an intelligent, powerful woman and burn her at the stake. Powerful women are not evil. We are not monsters”
― Lauretta Hignett, Susan, You're The Chosen One