My Favorite Bad Decision Quotes

“What about you”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, My Favorite Bad Decision

“I’ll always be aware that there’s another way to perceive these things. That they don’t have to stress me out the way they do.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, My Favorite Bad Decision

“I know a girl who went to Hollywood to become an actress,” Leah says cheerfully”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, My Favorite Bad Decision

“My life is a Tuesday.” His head tilts. “Huh?” “Thursday, you’re excited for the weekend, right?” I ask. “You’re making plans. And then you get to the weekend. Friday and Saturday are great. Sunday night is depressing; Monday’s just drudgery. You don’t want to get out of bed. Tuesday also sucks, but you know that if you keep moving forward, it could get better. My life used to be a Thursday or even a Friday. And now it’s a Tuesday. I don’t hate my life. I’m just moving through it, waiting to get to a Thursday that never seems to arrive.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, My Favorite Bad Decision

“Those words could mean nothing, but they hit me hard. Blake and I trade. If one of us gets something, the other gives something. Miller is different. Miller doesn’t want to take a thing from me. He just wants to provide. He wants to comfort me when I’m sad, feed me chocolate to make me smile, share his phone so that I’m entertained, stay by my side so I don’t fall.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, My Favorite Bad Decision

“Our lives are too easy. Humans evolved by constantly being on the lookout for trouble…When your life is as relatively danger-free as ours, you start finding shit to worry about where there’s none.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, My Favorite Bad Decision

“When I need a man to comment on my wardrobe choices, I’ll time travel back to the eighteen hundreds when it was socially acceptable behavior.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, My Favorite Bad Decision

“As I left, I could suddenly picture staying with Maren, becoming part of her family. Returning, week after week, to bat off Kit’s abuse. It would take me way too long to understand what had really changed.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, My Favorite Bad Decision

“He's right. Maybe we need to suffer a little. Maybe we need to spend some time in the dark so we can spy the tiny bits of light we couldn't distinguish, so we can marvel at the sun when it finally arrives.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, My Favorite Bad Decision