The Life and Death of Sophie Stark Quotes

“When I moved, the broker had told me there was something good for the brain about living near the sea, something about ions. But I often felt like the water was insulting me, like, "I'm beautiful and endless—what are you doing with your life?”
― Anna North, The Life and Death of Sophie Stark

“Maybe that was how you had to live, eventually—just let things be and never ask yourself if they were what you really wanted.”
― Anna North, The Life and Death of Sophie Stark

“It’s hard for me to talk about love,' she said. 'I think movies are the way I do that.”
― Anna North, The Life and Death of Sophie Stark

“It’s like having everybody mispronounce your name, every day. And at first you try to correct them, but they keep fucking it up, and then you start to wonder if maybe you’re the one who’s wrong and that really is how to pronounce your name. And after a while you start to wonder if you even have a name. Are you even a person? Do you even exist? Who fucking knows?”
― Anna North, The Life and Death of Sophie Stark

“But now when I think about that night, I think about something my stepdad once said when my mom yelled at him for quitting AA. He just told her in this sad, quiet voice, "Sometimes the sickest part of me just seems like the truest part.”
― Anna North, The Life and Death of Sophie Stark

“Everybody in my family believed in ghosts, and my grandma said it wasn't just bad people who turned into them, it was bad deeds too.”
― Anna North, The Life and Death of Sophie Stark

“She looked the way people look at that time in their relationship when they’re absolutely sure the other person loves them and they haven’t started to love that person any less yet.”
― Anna North, The Life and Death of Sophie Stark

“deep down I didn’t like saying no to people.”
― Anna North, The Life and Death of Sophie Stark

“Guilty’ — I know what that means, but I don’t understand the point of it. And ‘use’ — people say that like it’s so awful, but it’s just when you make something into something else, people do that every day. And ‘material’ — that’s like saying there’s some defined thing you have that you make movies out of, like clay or something, and everything else you leave out. Maybe some people make movies that way, but their movies are shit.”
― Anna North, The Life and Death of Sophie Stark

“Mi parte enferma, a veces, es la que me parece más sincera.”
― Anna North, The Life and Death of Sophie Stark

“Creo que soy como esos cangrejos que se construyen a sí mismos con partes de otros animales.”
― Anna North, The Life and Death of Sophie Stark

“I thought making movies would make me more like other people,” said Sophie. “But sometimes I think it just makes me even more like me.”
― Anna North, The Life and Death of Sophie Stark

“I thought making movies would make me more like other people,” said Sophie. “But sometimes I think it just makes me even more like me.” Again”
― Anna North, The Life and Death of Sophie Stark

“Whatever you do,” she said, “you’re helping someone else live in the world, and that’s more than I’ve ever done.” I remembered the summer when I was seven and Sophie was ten, and one day she refused to eat and hid in her closet, shivering like our cat right before it died. “What’s”
― Anna North, The Life and Death of Sophie Stark

“She’d taken one of me when we were both in high school that I still love—I’m sitting on our front steps eating an ice cream sandwich, and I look more like myself than I’ve ever looked in any mirror, a little bit angry but a little bit hopeful, too, like I’m looking forward to not being mad.”
― Anna North, The Life and Death of Sophie Stark

“That summer she was a hit wind I blew through the city on.”
― Anna North, The Life and Death of Sophie Stark

“just felt like I’d slipped into some other universe, one that had even less justice than the one I’d grown up in. I”
― Anna North, The Life and Death of Sophie Stark