Dangerous Girls Quotes

“Wouldn't we all look guilty, if someone searched hard enough?”
― Abigail Haas, Dangerous Girls

“Any one of us could be made to look a monster, with selective readings of our history.”
― Abigail Haas, Dangerous Girls

“I want to tell them all; the world is bigger than high school.”
― Abigail Haas, Dangerous Girls

“One moment. One picture. One glimpse—that’s all it takes to make someone think they know the truth.”
― Abigail Haas, Dangerous Girls

“I win.”
― Abigail Haas, Dangerous Girls

“..the truth is, we made each other, like we learned about in science class. Symbiosis.”
― Abigail Haas, Dangerous Girls

“The truth is, it's not the act that I'm scared of, but giving myself so entirely to someone. As long as there are lines to draw and boundaries to cling to, I can pretend that I'm safe from the wanting that threatens to consume me. I'm separate, still all my own. But after...
What then? What comes after, when he has that much of me, to do with as he chooses? When I have him. Will it ever be enough?”
― Abigail haas, Dangerous Girls

“My mom shows me her old yearbooks, and there are tons of people in there she doesn't talk to anymore. Old boyfriends, best friends… What do you think happened to them?"
"Maybe they drifted apart."
"That's stupid. You don't drift, not if someone matters to you."
"So maybe they didn't matter, not really."
"Anna?"
"Yeah?"
"I'd never do that. Leave you."
"I know. Me either.”
― Abigail Haas, Dangerous Girls

“Do you love me?"

"You know I do."

"How much?"

"Miles and Miles."

"Deeper than the oceans?"

"Yup. More than the wind."

"Higher than Everest?"

"I don't know, that's pretty high... Ow!" (laughter)

"Admit it. You love me more than anyone." 

"Maybe."

"What about you - how much do you love me?"

"Enough." 

"Hey!"

"You didn't ask, 'Enough for what?'"

"Fine, then. Enough for what?" 

"For Anything." 

"That's Better.”
― Abigail Haas, Dangerous Girls

“Now, for the first time, I wonder if this is how my mother felt. If cancer was her prison; the chemo treatments, torture. I understand it. I would rather die.”
― Abigail Haas, Dangerous Girls

“I can’t help my mind skipping over the here-and-now and racing on, to what might come next. Consequence and regret and other might-have-beens: plotting out every angle and scenario, knowing all along that the path I take means missing something else.”
― Abigail Haas, Dangerous Girls

“After so many years drifting, not connected to anything, I'm finally tethered. Safe and loved, in the middle.
We start senior year like kings, like nothing can ever tear us apart.
We're wrong.”
― Abigail Haas, Dangerous Girls

“Wouldn’t we all look guilty, if someone searched hard enough?”
― Abigail Haas, Dangerous Girls

“Everything will be okay. Trust me. I don't know how many times he's said that to me, not just here in prison but my whole life. When I was scared for the first day of school, or stressed about a big test; when I fell off my bike in sixth grade and split my lip. When my mom got sick. I always believed him. He's my father, he wouldn't lie to me; he's a grown-up, he knows the truth. But now I see his promises for what they really are: hopeful prayers, a mantra he says as much to reassure himself as me. He can't fix this, not even close.”
― Abigail Haas, Dangerous Girls

“Any one of us could be made to look a monster, with selective readings of our history,”
― Abigail Haas, Dangerous Girls

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple. —Oscar Wilde”
― Abigail Haas, Dangerous Girls

“Do you love me?
You know I do.
How much?
Miles and miles.”
― Abigail Haas, Dangerous Girls

“Sag mir, dass ich mich nicht immer so fühlen werde.”
― Abigail Haas, Dangerous Girls

“You want a revelation"...That's Florence and the Machine,
right?" Elise asks, seeing the lyrics scribbled on the cover.
I don't answer. She's friends with Lindsay, or at least part of that clique I've seen them around school, their ponytails swishing in unison. Elise is one of the quiet ones. She didn't join their teasing in the locker room before, but she didn't stand up for me either.
"She played a show here last month, but nobody else likes them, and my parents wouldn't let me go alone." Elise looks
rueful.
"I went," I tell her, remembering the night I snuck out for hours and nobody even noticed I was gone. "She played two hours, it was amazing.”
― Abigail Haas, Dangerous Girls

“The night is still just getting started.”
― Abigail Haas, Dangerous Girls