Get in Trouble Quotes

“The boy is loved. The loved one suffers. All loved ones suffer. Love is not enough to prevent this. Love is not enough. Love is enough. The thing that you wished for. Was this it?”
― Kelly Link, Get in Trouble: Stories

“Everyone who is alive has a ghost inside them, don’t they?”
― Kelly Link, Get in Trouble: Stories

“Because love isn’t just love. It’s all the other stuff, too.”
― Kelly Link, Get in Trouble: Stories

“Her chest feels very tight, as if she's suddenly full of poison. You have to keep it all inside. Like throwing yourself on a bomb to save everyone else. Except you're the bomb.”
― Kelly Link, Get in Trouble

“She put her feet down gently. The whole world was made of glass, and the glass was full of champagne, and Bunnatine was a bubble, just flicking up and up and up.”
― Kelly Link, Get in Trouble: Stories

“She said, “So my question is this. Does Angel the vampire keep a pair of black leather pants in his closet? Just in case? Like fat pants? Do vampires have closets? Or does he donate his evil pants to Goodwill when he’s good again? Because if so then every time he turns evil, he has to go buy new evil pants.”
― Kelly Link, Get in Trouble: Stories

“Sometimes a friendship is more like a war.”
― Kelly Link, Get in Trouble

“You’ve got little cats on your gun,” Edgar Lowes said. “Hello Kitty stickers,” she said. “I count coup.”
― Kelly Link, Get in Trouble: Stories

“Excuse me,” she said, “but I’m a children’s librarian. Can I ask why you’re defacing that book?” “I don’t know, can you? Maybe you can and maybe you can’t, but why ask me?” the man said. Turning his back to her, he hunched over the picture book again. Which was really too much. She had once been a child. She owned a library card. She opened up her shoulder bag and took a needle out of the travel sewing kit. She palmed the needle and then, after finishing off her Rum and Rum and Coke—a drink she’d invented in her twenties and was still very fond of—she jabbed the man in his left buttock. Very fast. Her hand was back in her lap and she was signaling the bartender for another drink when the man beside her howled and sat up. Now everyone was looking at him. He slid off his bar stool and hurried away, glancing back at her once in outrage.”
― Kelly Link, Get in Trouble: Stories

“Happiness! Misery! If you were one, bet on it the other was on the way.”
― Kelly Link, Get in Trouble: Stories

“The face, the whole body, the way you moved in it, just a guise. You put it on, you put it off again. What was underneath belonged to you, just you, as long as you kept it hidden.”
― Kelly Link, Get in Trouble: Stories

“Mangrove trees and the sea caught in a hundred places at their roots.”
― Kelly Link, Get in Trouble: Stories

“She closes the drapes over the view, which is just another building, glass-fronted like the elevators. As if nobody could ever get anything done if the world wasn't watching, or maybe because if the world can look in and see what you're doing then what you're doing has to be valuable and important and aboveboard. It's a far way down to the street, so far down that the window in Paul Zell's hotel room doesn't open, probably because people like Billie can't help imagining what it would be like to fall.”
― Kelly Link, Get in Trouble

“He just mumbled, Quit it, Bunnatine. Love me alone. Or something like that.”
― Kelly Link, Get in Trouble: Stories

“small forest of mirrored candelabras,”
― Kelly Link, Get in Trouble: Stories

“out back where I do the wash,”
― Kelly Link, Get in Trouble: Stories

“What you deserve and what you can stand aren't necessarily the same thing”
― Kelly Link, Get in Trouble

“Florida is California on a Troma budget. That’s what the demon lover thinks, anyway. Special effects blew the budget on bugs and bad weather.”
― Kelly Link, Get in Trouble: Stories

“Happiness! Misery! If you were one, bet on it the other was on the way. That was what everyone liked to see. It was what the whole thing was about. The demon lover has a pair of gold cuff links, those faces. Meggie gave them to him. You know the ones I mean.”
― Kelly Link, Get in Trouble: Stories

“Her chest feels very tight, as if she’s suddenly full of poison. You have to keep it all inside. Like throwing yourself on a bomb to save everyone else. Except you’re the bomb.”
― Kelly Link, Get in Trouble: Stories

“As if things weren’t awkward enough without Meggie, naked, suddenly standing there. Everybody naked, nobody happy. It’s Scandinavian art porn.”
― Kelly Link, Get in Trouble: Stories

“And if it's not fake, if it's all real, this fun, these friends, this life, then that's even worse, isn't it?”
― Kelly Link, Get in Trouble

“Year after year
On the monkey's face
A monkey face”
― Kelly Link, Get in Trouble

“God has an inordinate fondness for stars and also for beetles. The small and the very far away.”
― Kelly Link, Get in Trouble

“Picture the lobby of a hotel. [...] Now fill up the lobby with dentists and superheroes. Men and women, oral surgeons, eighth-dimensional entities, mutants, and freaks who want to save your teeth, save the world, and maybe end up with a television show, too. [...] Boards in the lobby list panels on advances in cosmetic dentistry, effective strategies for minimizing liability in cases of bystander hazard, presentations with titles like “Spandex or Bulletproof? What Look Is Right For You?”
― Kelly Link, Get in Trouble

“The Wizard of Oz was a humbug. He's not great and powerful. He just pretends to be great and powerful. The Wicked Witch of the West is greater and powerfuller. She's got flying monkeys. She's like a mad scientist. She even has a secret weakness. Water is like Kryptonite to her.”
― Kelly Link, Get in Trouble

“When you do for other people (Fran’s daddy said once upon a time when he was drunk, before he got religion) things that they could do for themselves, but they pay you to do it instead, you both will get used to it.”
― Kelly Link, Get in Trouble

“And then there’s the Face. Who is a nobody, a real person, who comes and takes your place at the table. They get an education, the best health care, a salary, all the nice clothes and all the same toys that you get. They get your parents whenever the Olds’ team decides there’s a need or an opportunity. If you go online, or turn on the TV, there they are, being you. Being better than you will ever be at being you. When you look at yourself in the mirror, you have to be careful, or you’ll start to feel very strange. Is that really you?”
― Kelly Link, Get in Trouble: Stories

“The boy is loved. The loved one suffers. All loved ones suffer. Love is not enough. Love is enough. The thing that you wished for. Was this it?”
― Kelly Link, Get in Trouble

“Because love isn't just love. It's all the other stuff, too.”
― Kelly Link, Get in Trouble