A Safe Girl to Love Quotes

“Who knew, Lizzy thought, the finite amount of nights in her life where she would sleep with her hand around a trusted body. That trusted hers. It wouldn't be a lot, anyway, would it.”
― Casey Plett, A Safe Girl to Love: Stories

“It exhausts me, it slows me down, it balls me up on the couch with movies and terrible food and it makes me weak. It’s not beautiful or brave or redemptive. It’s like a light case of mono that never goes away. I don’t want to be brave. I want us to be okay.”
― Casey Plett, A Safe Girl to Love: Stories

“Once, some friends and I were driving back from partying up there, in the middle of winter, on one of those perfectly clear and freezing nights. It was four in the morning and I was nodding in and out of hammered sleep, my vision mashed potatoes, we stopped so I could throw up at least twice. But as we drove with my face smushed on the window I noticed the field of snow along that stretch of the highway, all still and unmucked with. It looked brushed, almost. Or whipped. Designed. The patterns were the kind you'd see up close in a big rock. Sometimes you see that for far distances out here on the prairie, like a long white-blue sea. It's so gorgeous. And even with my brain's skeleton-crew state, I just thought, man. Everyone calls our part of the world bleak. But it's not bleak. I don't think it's bleak.”
― Casey Plett, A Safe Girl to Love: Stories

“My mother always told me to look in the mirror every morning and say, I am enough. But I do that and I just see an alien. Who looks in the mirror and sees an alien? Do you hear what I'm saying? Am I getting through to you? Please listen to me. Please try to understand.”
― Casey Plett, A Safe Girl to Love: Stories

“It's like no one wants to dress warm here, Zoe thought. As if because it almost never got cold-cold, people didn't want to turn on heat, put on coats, cover extremities. So they were colder here than they were in places that were actually cold.”
― Casey Plett, A Safe Girl to Love: Stories