Scarlett Epstein Hates It Here Quotes

“You can't have an inferiority complex and a superiority complex. Just pick one.”
― Anna Breslaw, Scarlett Epstein Hates It Here

“The best parts of life aren’t clear-cut or obvious—they don’t have neat endings. I know it’s your inclination to skip to the end, but you can’t just focus on how it’s all gonna turn out.”
― Anna Breslaw, Scarlett Epstein Hates It Here

“It's amazing how the more you read, the less you know.”
― Anna Breslaw, Scarlett Epstein Hates It Here

“It’s been bothering me more and more that I can’t ever see anything objectively, that every observation I make is filtered through my personal lens whether I like it or not. I mean, all my favorite novels are like that. F. Scott Fitzgerald basically is Gatsby, so obviously it’s Gatsby’s book, and Daisy comes off like a flake. But maybe in Daisy’s unwritten book, Gatsby is a flashy, patronizing asshole who thinks he could win her with money and fancy stuff. And that might be an even better book. Eventually,”
― Anna Breslaw, Scarlett Epstein Hates It Here

“It is hard to tell whether he's being honest or following the high school commandment of Thou shalt not show thy uncoolness by openly caring about something, which I have never been good at.”
― Anna breslaw, Scarlett Epstein Hates It Here

“I have a memory-flash of something Dawn said in a family-therapy session, right before my dad spilt–He's calm but wrong, and I'm loud but right, but since he's calm, it always seems like he's right.”
― Anna Breslaw, Scarlett Epstein Hates It Here

“She sighs, and then gives me this look. It's new and I don't like it. Sort of, Two roads diverged in a wood, mine is normal, but I hope you can be happy for me even though you are Miss Havisham.”
― Anna Breslaw, Scarlett Epstein Hates It Here

“Sometimes my entire high school experience feels like being the only one who already knows the end of a movie, when everyone else you're going with is excited to see how the movie will end. Spoiler alert: a 20 percent discount at Target.”
― Anna Breslaw, Scarlett Epstein Hates It Here

“I think we still, you know, we like the same stuff and we're both..."
The look in his eyes stops me, like I was about to say "serial killers" or "Coldplay fans". Shit. Come on, try again. I can be articulate. Go.”
― Anna Breslaw, Scarlett Epstein Hates It Here

“He looks up, sees me in the window, and jumps a little. Good. Let him think I'm a weird Mexican place mat ghost.”
― Anna Breslaw, Scarlett Epstein Hates It Here

“I have a memory-flash of something Dawn said in a family-therapy session, right before my dad spilt – He's calm but wrong, and I'm loud but right, but since he's calm, it always seems like he's right.”
― Anna Breslaw, Scarlett Epstein Hates It Here

“Crushes are so stupidly physical sometimes, like colds.”
― Anna Breslaw, Scarlett Epstein Hates It Here

“What the hell. After all, the first time Ted Hughes met Sylvia Plath, she bit him on the cheek, and he married her anyway. And they lived happily ever after.”
― Anna Breslaw, Scarlett Epstein Hates It Here

“Every time I try on bras or jeans in a department store and some saleswoman says they fit me "right," they feel so tight I can't breathe, so I size up, because the patriarchy.”
― Anna Breslaw, Scarlett Epstein Hates It Here

“It's SO much worse in high school! People talk about who's dating with such GRAVITY, like they're talking about wikileaks.”
― Anna Breslaw, Scarlett Epstein Hates It Here

“stopped by Ruth’s house after school, just as the sun was setting, incredibly jittery from playing Pokémon with narcotics at school and hoping this stupid report would be worth all the anxiety. She”
― Anna Breslaw, Scarlett Epstein Hates It Here