The Mirror House Girls Quotes

“I remind myself she left in one piece,”
― Faith Gardner, The Mirror House Girls

“and I eat a bloody, uncooked steak as Simon cheers me on. He wipes my lips when I’m done.”
― Faith Gardner, The Mirror House Girls

“I find it utterly tragic that most Americans slave away in soulless careers their whole life hoping they survive long enough to enjoy their retirement. Is that truly living? I’d rather be hungry and authentic than full-bellied and spiritless.”
― Faith Gardner, The Mirror House Girls

“life is messy, imperfect, and breakable.”
― Faith Gardner, The Mirror House Girls

“Avoidance only strengthens fear,”
― Faith Gardner, The Mirror House Girls

“This is not normal, a worried voice in me whispers. Something about this is very wrong.”
― Faith Gardner, The Mirror House Girls

“This isn’t going to be easy,” he says. “But if it isn’t hard, it isn’t work worth doing.”
― Faith Gardner, The Mirror House Girls

“Exactly. Because the story keeps changing. And that’s all life is—stories. Narratives. If you change the story you tell yourself, you can change anything.”
― Faith Gardner, The Mirror House Girls

“Clean, pristine, expensive things make me nervous”
― Faith Gardner, The Mirror House Girls

“He believed his own bullshit, and that’s scarier to me than a con artist. Evil that thinks it’s righteous and good … that’s the scariest thing in the world.”
― Faith Gardner, The Mirror House Girls

“We grow accustomed to the dark/ when light is put away.”
― Faith Gardner, The Mirror House Girls

“life is never so beautiful as when you have known its opposite.”
― Faith Gardner, The Mirror House Girls

“Takes a lifetime to build a person and one second to end them.”
― Faith Gardner, The Mirror House Girls

“I consider myself a word person”
― Faith Gardner, The Mirror House Girls

“Ugly accidents can produce unexpected gifts.”
― Faith Gardner, The Mirror House Girls

“Just saying, indoctrination comes in so many colors that sometimes you end up blind to it.”
― Faith Gardner, The Mirror House Girls

“An Emily Dickinson line blows through my mind in a whisper: “We grow accustomed to the dark/ when light is put away.”
― Faith Gardner, The Mirror House Girls

“Pepper spray,” I mutter to myself. “What the fucking fuck.”
― Faith Gardner, The Mirror House Girls

“The Pacific Ocean, love of my life.”
― Faith Gardner, The Mirror House Girls

“Fear and love, that’s all there is.”
― Faith Gardner, The Mirror House Girls

“Wish we were just getting started.”
― Faith Gardner, The Mirror House Girls

“In my dreams lately, I’ve been visited by the great men of history,” he says quietly. “Martin Luther King Jr., Saint Francis, Abraham Lincoln. Jesus Christ. Julius Caesar. All coming to me, all telling me it’s okay. It’s going to be okay.”
― Faith Gardner, The Mirror House Girls

“It is what it is. I hate that fucking phrase. It means nothing. It’s what people say when they don’t know what to say and should just shut the hell up.”
― Faith Gardner, The Mirror House Girls

“consider myself a word person, but I can’t tell you the plot of a book ten minutes after I finish it.”
― Faith Gardner, The Mirror House Girls

“I ask how old he is and he tells me he’s thirty-three.”
― Faith Gardner, The Mirror House Girls

“As he leads me to the back door, I note that he’s the only man here, living with five women. Do what Simon says. Am I imagining it, or every time he speaks, does everybody stop to listen?”
― Faith Gardner, The Mirror House Girls

“It’s strange how you don’t notice manipulation when it’s happening to you. But it’s obvious when you see it happening to someone else.”
― Faith Gardner, The Mirror House Girls

“Evil that thinks it’s righteous and good … that’s the scariest thing in the world.”
― Faith Gardner, The Mirror House Girls

“Give somebody the keys to your mind, you’d better make sure you trust them.”
― Faith Gardner, The Mirror House Girls

“My mother’s worry was a cage and even though I’m twenty-two, I still feel sometimes like I haven’t escaped it.”
― Faith Gardner, The Mirror House Girls