Madly Quotes

“I just thought, what if I tried sex without the only part that counted as sex before? I want that. I want to say ‘fuck you’ to the whole idea, too, that getting penetrated is the point of the deal, like it’s not sex if there’s not something inside me. I’m inside me. I am.” Only”
― Ruthie Knox, Madly

“You’re supposed to show up for your own life”
― Ruthie Knox, Madly

“It falls apart. It comes back together. It falls apart, and it comes back together. That’s the way of everything, except when people tell themselves it can’t be”
― Ruthie Knox, Madly

“shame was just a lie someone has told you about yourself”
― Ruthie Knox, Madly

“All the pain Allie felt, crying in his arms, was the pain that had always been there. The pain that caught in their throats as they tried to talk with each other about what they wanted.”
― Ruthie Knox, Madly

“Oh my God, walk.” Beatrice stood in the middle of the street, waving them forward with both hands. A car bore down from half a block away, moving entirely too quickly for Winston’s comfort, but Bea didn’t even flinch when the horn honked. “You guys are like turtle people.” “You’re supposed to wait for the little white man to appear,” Winston protested. “The world is bored with waiting for little white men,” Bea replied. “The age of the little white man is over.”
― Ruthie Knox, Madly

“whereas Allie still had to wear a retainer at night to keep her bottom teeth from collecting like dice in a Yahztee cup.”
― Ruthie Knox, Madly

“He wanted to hold the love tight to himself, protect it from harm, but he knew better now. That wasn’t how love worked. You found it, if you were lucky, and you gave it away, and you took whatever came back to you, the good and the bad together.
He would love her right now, and for as long as she let him, and take the consequences.”
― Ruthie Knox, Madly