Girls in Trucks Quotes

“Without a bellyful of liquor, all I am is a woman who cracks stupid jokes to make up for being shy.”
― Katie Crouch, Girls in Trucks

“I watched, hoping she wouldn't come out too broke. It's all you can do for people sometimes, no matter how much you love them.”
― Katie Crouch, Girls in Trucks

“He doesn't bother to talk, and I don't either, but we look. We stare. And for a moment, I am sure of everything. For a second, with my bare feet on the fresh thick grass, there has not been, for any of us, even one mistake.”
― Katie Crouch, Girls in Trucks

“You're going to have to go beyond yourself to keep him. That's a tiring thing.”
― Katie Crouch, Girls in Trucks

“And then there's the truth beyond that, sitting like an old rock under green creek water: none of these things matter. Right now, in this moment, we have love. We have it in the sound of my daughter's laugher, in Mom's and Georgia's locked fingers, in the warm pressure of J.T.'s hand. It will leave, and it will come again, and when it does I'll give up everything and take it. Just like an addict. Like dry grass in new rain. It's not something I'm proud of necessarily. Then again, maybe I am.”
― Katie Crouch, Girls in Trucks

“We are all somewhere else, during.”
― Katie Crouch, Girls in Trucks

“I wish I were the graceful sort. I was trained to be. "Never chase men or buses," my mother told me. "Another one will always come along." Still, I always run after the subway, and when men go, I follow.”
― Katie Crouch, Girls in Trucks

“Being unfaithful to yourself is not as hard as you'd think. I will never compromise myself for someone else, I always thought. I'll kill myself first. But it's so easy. It's like wearing earplugs. It's as if you've put your head under the pillow during a thunderstorm, so that all you can hear is the faint sound of muffled rain.”
― Katie Crouch, Girls in Trucks

“Being unfaithful to yourself is not as hard as you'd think. I will n ever compromise myself for someone else, I always thought. I'll kill myself first. But it's so easy. It's like wearing earplugs. It's as if you've put your head under the pillow during a thunderstorm, so that all you can hear is the faint sound of muffled rain.”
― Katie Crouch, Girls in Trucks