A Good Person Quotes

“Who has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person? - Clarice Lispector”
― Kirsten King, A Good Person

“Are you usually this forward?” Henry asked. “No,” I lied. Men liked to think that you were breaking your normally chaste rules to pursue them. They wanted to feel like you were virginal to the rest of the world and a whore with them.”
― Kirsten King, A Good Person

“I relaxed my bladder and a loud fart escaped”
― Kirsten King, A Good Person

“I thought about joining Bumble BFF, but decided I would rather kill myself.”
― Kirsten King, A Good Person

“There was a long pause, and I dared Jamie to challenge me on my use of the word “boyfriend” versus “ex.” I would obliterate her if she said anything.”
― Kirsten King, A Good Person

“if she did kill me, at least it would confirm once and for all that she was Henry’s murderer. I would be dead, but the social tides would shift, and my body would wash ashore hero.”
― Kirsten King, A Good Person

“How did he not care about losing me? How was he completely fine with going back to being strangers? He had been inside me, inside almost every hole in my body with the exception of my ears!”
― Kirsten King, A Good Person

“The other girls at work often complimented her style, but I personally thought she looked like an emotionally stunted clown.”
― Kirsten King, A Good Person

“Plus, I liked watching people I went to high school with get progressively uglier online.”
― Kirsten King, A Good Person

“I didn’t want him to know I didn’t have plans on a day when I was supposed to be surrounded with gifts and a large group of friends whose entire goal was to make me happy.”
― Kirsten King, A Good Person

“I leaned over to get a better look at the kid’s face and was relieved to see that he was very ugly.”
― Kirsten King, A Good Person

“thought you wanted to have quality time with your mother. You barely call”
― Kirsten King, A Good Person

“I think that’s our time. If you want to keep working together”
― Kirsten King, A Good Person

“These decisions aren’t healthy”
― Kirsten King, A Good Person

“was constantly adapting to different bodies and dispositions”
― Kirsten King, A Good Person

“She was just an influencer—another person who paid their bills by pretending to be something that she was not. She wasn’t dangerous; she was just a fraud.”
― Kirsten King, A Good Person

“I had also consumed a big glass of wine that morning to take the edge off”
― Kirsten King, A Good Person

“I was inexplicably getting an influx of followers who lived in India”
― Kirsten King, A Good Person

“When you started creeping toward thirty”
― Kirsten King, A Good Person

“These types of people often got crucified online for treating murder as entertainment”
― Kirsten King, A Good Person

“We can be a lot for men”
― Kirsten King, A Good Person

“But at least I fucked people and worked in marketing”
― Kirsten King, A Good Person

“You literally guided my head to your penis,” I said”
― Kirsten King, A Good Person

“and he excitedly grabbed the remote. Men loved introducing you to new things. They liked thinking of women as uninformed newborns whose connection with culture could only be achieved through a connection with a man. For most women”
― Kirsten King, A Good Person

“personally found her nauseating”
― Kirsten King, A Good Person

“small marketing firm called Fizzle that advertised themselves as progressive”
― Kirsten King, A Good Person

“The truth was that sometimes things in your life sucked past the point of no return.”
― Kirsten King, A Good Person

“Everyone in my generation is obsessed with unearthing their past trauma and finding their “triggers.” My coworkers often referred to their therapists by their first names and spoke candidly about their sessions”
― Kirsten King, A Good Person

“Was I in trouble? I had looked at porn on my company laptop so many times that I got a bug that IT needed to fix last week”
― Kirsten King, A Good Person

“The loudest voice in the room by a landslide was my coworker Jessica”
― Kirsten King, A Good Person