Little Pretty Things Quotes

“Did he not know that there was a lower point, yet, when you had accepted your own fate but found yourself too weak to go through with it? The point at which you understood you had made not a single ripple in the pond, and neither would your loss.”
― Lori Rader-Day, Little Pretty Things

“I wanted to win now, and yet there was no prize, no competition but the obstacles I set for myself. Maybe this was what adulthood was. No more trophies. No more tapes to break through, and all the striving in the world guaranteed nothing.”
― Lori Rader-Day, Little Pretty Things

“I’d gotten the details wrong. I stood up. I couldn’t believe what I was thinking. Watch what you say, and who you say it to. I had no evidence. It was only a terrible feeling, a terrible, sinking realization that I’d been living in a world parallel to the real one. I felt as though I had believed in the Easter bunny for a decade longer than everyone else.”
― Lori Rader-Day, Little Pretty Things

“So many girls never had the chance to find out who they really were before other people started telling them.”
― Lori Rader-Day, Little Pretty Things

“What I took wasn’t treasure; I only made it so in the taking.”
― Lori Rader-Day, Little Pretty Things

“I’d always thought I’d outgrow this hand-to-mouth life eventually, but what made me special? What made me different from those around me? This might be it. This might be the best I could do.”
― Lori Rader-Day, Little Pretty Things

“None of us knows how much of a chickenshit we are until we have the chance to show it.” He could have said hero. He could have said that none of us knew to what heights we might rise if we were given the opportunity.”
― Lori Rader-Day, Little Pretty Things

“I’d forgotten about her dad. He kept falling away, like a chapter in a book I wanted to skip over.”
― Lori Rader-Day, Little Pretty Things

“Her laugh was a horse whinny dragged across the gravel under my feet.”
― Lori Rader-Day, Little Pretty Things

“I’d always meant to leave town, but sometimes all I wanted was nothing more than the best it had to offer.”
― Lori Rader-Day, Little Pretty Things

“The worst tragedy of loss was that the world kept spinning.”
― Lori Rader-Day, Little Pretty Things

“Little pretty things, all of them. Kids were cuter these days. Or we’d been just as beautiful, and hadn’t known it.”
― Lori Rader-Day, Little Pretty Things

“It was frustrating to think of the world as a place full of things I’d never know.”
― Lori Rader-Day, Little Pretty Things

“As I looked, other names started to leap out. People I knew from school, but also from the Mid-Night. Courtney Howard had received some kind of student journalism award. Yvonne’s named showed up on a plaque for something called the Student Business Alliance. All these awards, squeezed together on a shelf, literally under glass like pinned butterflies. Youth caught in mid-wing beat.”
― Lori Rader-Day, Little Pretty Things

“Girlhood could be such a piece of crap, if you were just a little bit different. And every one of us was.”
― Lori Rader-Day, Little Pretty Things

“She would probably do anything to go unnoticed. The space she took up might as well be a favor she was forced to ask, over and over.”
― Lori Rader-Day, Little Pretty Things

“In the photo, I’m living in the moment. My smile is a thousand-watt beauty, all that orthodontia finally paying off, all those chewy vitamins and two vegetables at dinner and access to vaccinations and fluoride in the water radiating from me. I looked like a corn-fed State Fair dairy princess reigning over my subjects.”
― Lori Rader-Day, Little Pretty Things

“Maybe we all experienced life not by the hour, but by the texture and taste.”
― Lori Rader-Day, Little Pretty Things

“Running quiets the voice in your head,”
― Lori Rader-Day, Little Pretty Things