You Will Know Me Quotes

“That’s what parenthood was about, wasn’t it? Slowly understanding your child less and less until she wasn’t yours anymore but herself.”
― Megan Abbott, You Will Know Me

“She hadn't learned, no one had taught her ... that the things you want, you never get them. And if you do, they're not what you thought they'd be. But you'd still do anything to keep them. Because you'd wanted them for so long.”
― Megan Abbott, You Will Know Me

“I was so mad when I was younger," she said. "And then you grow up and think you're not that girl anymore. The girl you were at fifteen, sixteen. Angry and nasty. Hungry for love—"
"—I guess some girls are like that," Katie said, cooly.
"But the thing is, you're always that girl," Hailey said, stepping out of the car. "She never goes away. She's inside you all the time. That girl is forever.”
― Megan Abbott, You Will Know Me

“Because there's a hundred ways sex can ruin you but there's no end to the ways love can.”
― Megan Abbott, You Will Know Me

“We never know, none of us, what love'll do to us.”
― Megan Abbott, You Will Know Me

“Being a girl is so hard, Katie thought. And it only gets harder.    The”
― Megan Abbott, You Will Know Me

“This sensible, sensible girl. A girl who knew how to protect herself. Never a daredevil, never stunting without a safety mat, without spotters. A girl for whom instability was the ultimate enemy. Who’d never known divorce or slamming doors or slamming fists. A girl whose home was a peaceful sanctum, even the basement padded. A life that had to be made safe because of the risks she put her body through. She was the most dangerous thing in her own life. Her body, the only dangerous thing.”
― Megan Abbott, You Will Know Me

“The pause that followed felt very important. It was one of those moments in a marriage when you have to make a critical decision with alarming speed and the consequences could last a long time, even forever.”
― Megan Abbott, You Will Know Me

“that the things you want, you never get them. And if you do, they’re not what you thought they’d be. But you’d still do anything to keep them. Because you’d wanted them for so long.”
― Megan Abbott, You Will Know Me

“Never make eye contact with a wolf. The wolf will take it as a challenge.  ”
― Megan Abbott, You Will Know Me

“When you realize, you have no idea what's going on in your kid's head? One morning, you wake up and there's this alien in your house. They look like your kid, sound a little like them, but they are not your kid. They're something else that you don't know.”
― Megan Abbott, You Will Know Me

“They knew each other most deeply through body-warmed sheets and the tangle of half dreams.”
― Megan Abbott, You Will Know Me

“So many things you never think you'll do until you do them.”
― Megan Abbott, You Will Know Me

“That was what gymnastics did, though. It aged girls and kept them young forever at the same time. And”
― Megan Abbott, You Will Know Me

“About Devon, about the lonesomeness of her daughter’s life, about—”
― Megan Abbott, You Will Know Me

“The things you want, you never get them. And if you do, they're not what you thought they'd be. But you'd still do anything to keep them. Because you'd wanted them for so long.”
― Megan Abbott, You Will Know Me

“Because there’s a hundred ways sex can ruin you but there’s no end to the ways love can.    Walking”
― Megan Abbott, You Will Know Me

“You never think your life will be that big.    Just”
― Megan Abbott, You Will Know Me

“The force that through the green fuse drives the flower.   ”
― Megan Abbott, You Will Know Me

“Whenever I doubted myself, my dad would say, ‘Grab that dream by the hands, Gwennie. Clutch until the knuckles go white.’” “Whose dream?” “It doesn’t matter whose dream it is,” she said. “Just that it’s a dream.”
― Megan Abbott, You Will Know Me

“...there's a hundred ways sex can ruin you but there's no end to the ways love can.”
― Megan Abbott, You Will Know Me

“There is something bad here, growing. Day and night I watch it. Growing. —Sophocles, Electra”
― Megan Abbott, You Will Know Me

“You really only learn your place, her mother once said, when you're left in it.”
― Megan Abbott, You Will Know Me

“...like my own granddad used to say, if you get down to the nub of it, people don't change.

That's not true, Katie thought. Not at all. Everyone changed, all the time. That was what was so hard.”
― Megan Abbott, You Will Know Me

“...Devon wore the face of a stone Artemis.”
― Megan Abbott, You Will Know Me

“It’s hard, he told her, when everyone wants it so much but you’re the one who has to do it.”
― Megan Abbott, You Will Know Me

“You really only learn your place, her mother once said, when you’re left in it.”
― Megan Abbott, You Will Know Me

“There's a hundred ways sex can ruin you, but there's no end to the ways love can.”
― Megan Abbott, You Will Know Me

“When she returned, there was Coach T. spinning”
― Megan Abbott, You Will Know Me

“It was one of those moments in a marriage when you have to make a critical decision with alarming speed and the consequences could last a long time, even forever.”
― Megan Abbott, You Will Know Me