Margot Quotes

“ ... sometimes we breathe because we have to, not because we want to ...”
― Jillian Cantor, Margot

“Lying can be a second skin, but when you are called out on that lie, it can become all too easy for that skin to start to peel away.”
― Jillian Cantor, Margot

“You have to love someone to yell at them so intensely; you have to care so unbelievably much that your anger explodes and burns across the sky like the Soviet's Sputnik.”
― Jillian Cantor, Margot

“But what I have come to understand as I watch the lonely flicker of my candle and listen for the faintest echo of Mother's voice is this: sometimes we breathe because we have to, not because we want to.”
― Jillian Cantor, Margot

“I am not lost, but I am without direction, and even though they sound the same, they are not.”
― Jillian Cantor, Margot

“But I am thinking about the way Ezra yelled at Joshua, not so dissimilar to the way my mother and sister used to yell at each other. You have to love someone to yell at them so intensely; you have to care so unbelievably much that your anger explodes and burns across the sky like the Soviet's Sputnik I’ve read so much about. My sister always thought they fought because Mother hated her, but I knew better.”
― Jillian Cantor, Margot

“Shelby's laugh is like water. Sometimes it's good, cleansing, even refreshing. Other times, I feel it might drown me.”
― Jillian Cantor, Margot

“Shelby is so gullible; she believes every word I say to her, as if it is so easy just to believe the best in people.”
― Jillian Cantor, Margot

“My lying is a second skin by now, so easy to forget it's there, so I don't always remember that lying is actually an art, and those who aren't meticulous about it are easily exposed.”
― Jillian Cantor, Margot

“And that is one of the worst things about this life. As a liar, a pretend person, you cannot really truly ever be someone's friend. My American life, it is lonely. Often, it is very, very lonely.”
― Jillian Cantor, Margot

“My father always seems to think greatness and money are the same thing, but you know what I think greatness is?"

"What?" I ask.

"Being brave, like Miss Korzynski. Doing something that no one else has dared to do before you. Finding something that terrifies you and then doing it anyway.”
― Jillian Cantor, Margot

“I am good at keeping secrets. I am wrapped in them now, the way I am wrapped in lies, like my sweater, clinging tightly to my skin, even on the hottest of days.”
― Jillian Cantor, Margot