Mansion Beach Quotes

“minds,”
― Meg Mitchell Moore, Mansion Beach

“Because even though she’s repulsed by his behavior she could see herself getting caught back up, obsessing, even, always wondering, always worrying that there’s a Shelly Salazar around the corner. She could see Jack Baker, with his unconcern, with his sexy forearms and perfect abs and beautiful hair, turning her into just the kind of person she doesn’t want to be, the kind of person who puts her hands on her hips and cries, Where have you been? maybe while wearing some sort of a kerchief, maybe holding a broom or a vegetable peeler.”
― Meg Mitchell Moore, Mansion Beach

“The thought she’s left with as she finally drifts off to sleep, way later than she meant to, is about another Taylor, Taylor Swift, who, she read somewhere, is still and will always be the girl whose friends once lied and said they weren’t free to go to the mall and then went to the mall, together, without her. Taylor saw them there—she was with her mom. Deep down, Nicola thinks, we’re all still walking around with our earliest wounds just under the surface, scared of being re-cut at any time.”
― Meg Mitchell Moore, Mansion Beach

“It was just so kind. It was so kind. Nobody had ever been kind to me in that way. Because, and I hope this doesn’t make me sound like an asshole, but when you have a lot of money, and you look a certain way, nobody thinks you need kindness too. But I did. I do. And this is going to sound crazy, but I said to myself right then, all those years ago, I’ve got to marry this man.”
― Meg Mitchell Moore, Mansion Beach

“When you have control over your work life, control over your income, you have control over your whole life.”
― Meg Mitchell Moore, Mansion Beach

“She can easily be not free. She could have a business meeting, a plumber coming, an online therapy appointment. Any of these would do. Or none of them; she doesn’t need an excuse. How many times in the past ten years has she reminded herself that no is a complete fucking sentence?”
― Meg Mitchell Moore, Mansion Beach