The Meaning of Maggie Quotes

“Dad and I had only talked about boys once before when he said something about birds and bees and then he told me it was just natural and I asked what was just natural and he said s-e-x and I’d freaked out, run to my room, slammed the door, and watched PBS for three hours just so I could feel wholesome again.”
― Megan Jean Sovern, The Meaning of Maggie: A Novel

“I needed my dad back. The adventurer. The dreamer. The free spirit.”
― Megan Jean Sovern, The Meaning of Maggie

“Neil Young” on”
― Megan Jean Sovern, The Meaning of Maggie: A Novel

“Heart of Gold”
― Megan Jean Sovern, The Meaning of Maggie: A Novel

“They were a pair of Dad’s old glasses that Mom never let me wear because she said they made me look like a cereal killer, which I didn’t really understand because I loved cereal too much to kill it.”
― Megan Jean Sovern, The Meaning of Maggie: A Novel

“Mom put me in charge of Dad until she gets back, which makes sense because I am way more responsible than my sisters even though they’re in high school and I’m in middle school, but you know, hot girls take longer to mature.”
― Megan Jean Sovern, The Meaning of Maggie: A Novel

“I can't believe you all had so much fun being young. I just want to be old. I want to be old and rich and smell like butterscotch."
You would have thought I'd said something super awful. Like that I hated Led Zeppelin. Or worse, that I was a Republican. Dad unfolded his feet, let down his legs, and pulled my face to his.
"Can't you see how you have the whole world in front of you, Maggie?"
First of all, that's not even possible because just as much of the world is in front of me as is behind me because that's just how geography.”
― Megan Jean Sovern, The Meaning of Maggie

“I felt like begging him to tell me everything was going to be okay. That he was going to be okay. I needed to hear it from him. I needed to know he was going to be there for every single important thing. I needed him to hear my speech as high school valedictorian where I planned on quoting Abraham Lincoln and Neil Young. I needed him to be there for every single victory. Every single prize whether it be Nobel, Pulitzer, or Cracker Jack.”
― Megan Jean Sovern, The Meaning of Maggie

“I guess I'm starting to realize that being brave isn't so black and white. It isn't something you either are or aren't. It isn't an absolute. Because you can run out of bravery. Your metaphorical bravery tank can run dry. But it's up to you to fill it back up again. To muster all the courage you can. To pull up your bootstraps.”
― Megan Jean Sovern, The Meaning of Maggie

“Beep. Beep. Beep. My dad won't stop beeping.”
― Megan Jean Sovern, The Meaning of Maggie

“And then I would get us pudding because, well, I was hungrier for butterscotch pudding than I was for information about my own grandmother.”
― Megan Jean Sovern, The Meaning of Maggie: A Novel

“I sulked into the living room and sat on the couch with my back turned away from the enemies who said they were my parents. I mean how could I know for sure if they were my real parents? I didn't have any concrete proof they weren't Russian spies. So what if they couldn't speak Russian. Maybe they were THAT good.”
― Megan Jean Sovern, The Meaning of Maggie