The Good Girl Effect Quotes

“I don’t think everything needs to be perfected as a skill. There’s nothing wrong with just enjoying something for the sake of enjoying it. We dont need to become better at it and certainly not perfect.”
― Sara Cate, The Good Girl Effect

“To think, none of this would have happened if Camille had never opened that book.”
― Sara Cate, The Good Girl Effect

“The future has been this illusive harbinger of sorrow for so long.”
― Sara Cate, The Good Girl Effect

“Those flaws are what I adore. When I say you’re perfect, I don’t mean that perfection defines you. I mean you define perfection.”
― Sara Cate, The Good Girl Effect

“Rule Number 35-someone will think you’re perfect. Flaws and all.”
― Sara Cate, The Good Girl Effect

“We really shouldn’t do this.”
― Sara Cate, The Good Girl Effect

“In that black-on-black suit with a gold watch band on his wrist and expensive cuff links, he appears almost godly”
― Sara Cate, The Good Girl Effect

“I don’t think everything needs to be perfected as a skill. There’s nothing wrong with just enjoying something for the sake of enjoying it. We don't need to become better at it and certainly not perfect.”
― Sara Cate, The Good Girl Effect

“Good girl,” he replies, and it has me melting against the cabinets. The effect of those words alters my brain chemistry.”
― Sara Cate, The Good Girl Effect

“You’re playing with fire, you know that? I can’t seem to say no to you, although I should.”
― Sara Cate, The Good Girl Effect

“When I have you tied up, I will want to fuck you. And when you are tied up for me, you will want me to. In fact, you’ll beg for it. You’ll beg for my cock in your sweet, dripping little cunt. If this letter scares you—good. It’s meant to. I am not a kind or gentle man, Camille. And I’m no fucking teacher. I want you to fully understand what you ask of me because there is no chance of us going down this road with any part of it remaining innocent or appropriate. So tell me. Are you still curious?”
― Sara Cate, The Good Girl Effect

“What’s wrong, Lizzie?” our dad asks. “You don’t want kids someday?” “God no,” she replies before glancing back at Bea and the baby. “No offense.” “None taken,” Bea replies, making everyone laugh.”
― Sara Cate, The Good Girl Effect

“Well, you’d never forgive me if I left you alone with Julian.” She rolls her eyes. “You’re right about that.” Just then, he passes by the office, sneering at both of us before lifting up his middle fingers on both hands. “I heard that. Fuck you both.” Elizabeth and I cackle.”
― Sara Cate, The Good Girl Effect

“Papa,” she whispers. “Yes?” “Can we get hot chocolate?” I smile with my chin resting on her head. “Yes, of course we can.”
― Sara Cate, The Good Girl Effect

“But I’m so fucking tired of running and fighting that I start to let the pain win. When the next three words leave my lips, it feels like tearing down the dam. “I’m not fine.” And that’s it. The painful prick of tears subsides when I finally let them fall.”
― Sara Cate, The Good Girl Effect

“I chose you because you are perfect in every way. You are perfect to me. You are everything I have ever wanted and will ever want, and I chose you as my date tonight because as long as you are in the room, I see no one else. Understand?”
― Sara Cate, The Good Girl Effect

“Hold still,” he says. Then with steady hands and a relaxed expression, he applies the mascara to my right eye. I can hardly move. There’s something so cool and confident about the way he does this, as if he owns me. As if I’m just a thing for him to dress up and play with. And oddly…it calms me.”
― Sara Cate, The Good Girl Effect

“I am her father, and it’s about time I start acting like it again. Before her life passes by and her childhood memories are full of a sadder version of me.”
― Sara Cate, The Good Girl Effect

“I want to be around her all the time. I want to own her while also being owned by her. I want her to exist in every future iteration of my life.”
― Sara Cate, The Good Girl Effect

“Bea shrieks with laughter as I spin her. Her joy is infectious. It seeps into my pores like medicine, curing ailments I didn’t even know I had. I just know I feel better when I hear it. When the song ends, I hoist my daughter off the floor and hug her to me, kissing her on the cheek as she wraps her arms tightly around my neck.”
― Sara Cate, The Good Girl Effect

“When they see me, they don’t freeze in terror like they had before. Instead, Bea grins wildly, running up to me and taking my hands. “Dance, Papa!” she squeals.”
― Sara Cate, The Good Girl Effect

“I adore your imperfections. I love that you are impulsive and headstrong and you speak without thinking first. And I love that you are so curious that sometimes it gets you into trouble. I knew it the minute I walked into the kitchen and found you burning the rice to dance with my daughter. Those flaws are what I adore. When I say you’re perfect, I don’t mean that perfection defines you. I mean you define perfection.”
― Sara Cate, The Good Girl Effect

“Then take me, Jack. Make me yours, and I’ll never touch another man again.”
― Sara Cate, The Good Girl Effect

“You want me to say that I am yours as much as you are mine, but you must know it’s true. Don’t you see what you’ve done to me?” Her expression softens as she looks up at me. The fire is still there as she whispers, “Then say it.”
― Sara Cate, The Good Girl Effect

“What did I really expect? That I could just deposit her on the street and somehow return to my work upstairs as if nothing happened? No. We are either going to fight this out or fuck this out. Or both.”
― Sara Cate, The Good Girl Effect

“Eventually, I’m going to have to make a choice. Stay here and devote my life to this family as a nanny, or save my own heart and say goodbye before it grows too attached.”
― Sara Cate, The Good Girl Effect

“And yet there is always a voice inside me that strives for perfection. It’s as if he was trying to convince me to embrace my flaws, but I couldn’t. When I look in the mirror, all I see is a girl who is too messy, too loud, too wild, too silly, or too ignorant.”
― Sara Cate, The Good Girl Effect

“Good girl,” he says with a low growl. His free hand pets my hair, and I start to sway. How can he have me so compliant with just a few commands and words of praise? It’s like being hypnotized. I’d do anything just to please him.”
― Sara Cate, The Good Girl Effect

“There is nothing more powerful than family.”
― Sara Cate, The Good Girl Effect

“This book is dedicated to your praise kink.”
― Sara Cate, The Good Girl Effect