Abroad Quotes

“We were all alive, and we loved and hated and lived brilliant, messy existences. The air is thick with our wanting.”
― Katie Crouch, Abroad

“We get to be this happy now. Was it a promise, I wondered? Or a threat?”
― Katie Crouch, Abroad

“Because I can tell you with authority: there is no better place to be at twenty-one than in the backseat of a car, driving to a party in autumn.”
― Katie Crouch, Abroad

“So yes, I knew how to dance. I just wasn't able to look at the person I was dancing with. A sort of glass cage fell over me, in the form of a distant, distracted smile.”
― Katie Crouch, Abroad

“My first thought, as I followed Sean to that field behind the post office, was that he wanted a touch of this or that. And he did, really. But he also fancied himself a poetry lover. He would arrange us comfortably, then pull out a book and start to read. I would sit there on the plastic tarp, smoothing the plaid skirt of my uniform over my wool stockings, rather at a loss. How is a girl supposed to react to Keats? Does she gaze at the reader adoringly? Lie back seductively on one arm?”
― Katie Crouch, Abroad

“I suppose there's a time in life when a garden of roses and lavender fails to blind a girl to the true shabbiness of a place. I myself had not reached that moment of clarity.”
― Katie Crouch, Abroad