All the Ugly and Wonderful Things Quotes

“I liked learning things. How numbers worked together to explain the stars. How molecules made the world. All the ugly and wonderful things people had done in the last two thousand years.”
― Bryn Greenwood, All the Ugly and Wonderful Things

“When I reached her, she was a star, pulling me into her orbit”
― Bryn Greenwood, All the Ugly and Wonderful Things

“Most days I was impossible. Like a unicorn.”
― Bryn Greenwood, All the Ugly and Wonderful Things

“You can look up keening in the dictionary, but you don’t know what it means until you hear somebody having their heart ripped out.”
― Bryn Greenwood, All the Ugly and Wonderful Things

“Your family is real, but mine isn't? Real people with real feelings, but my family isn't real to you. You think. I'm a character. A story. Those women you talk about. Not real people to you. Stupid women. I'm real. I'm as real as you are. My family is real like your family.”
― Bryn Greenwood, All the Ugly and Wonderful Things

“You make people interested in you by keeping secrets, not by passing them out like candy at Halloween.”
― Bryn Greenwood, All the Ugly and Wonderful Things

“I love you. I love you all the way.”
― Bryn Greenwood, All the Ugly and Wonderful Things

“I wanted a fairy tale ending for Wavy, because if she could find happiness, there would be hope for me, too.”
― Bryn Greenwood, All the Ugly and Wonderful Things

“Feeling dead was better than when my heart hurt. Sometimes I thought it might burn through my ribs while I was asleep, and smolder in the sheets until the whole house caught fire.”
― Bryn Greenwood, All the Ugly and Wonderful Things

“Sometimes waiting and being disappointed was good, to remind me he didn't belong to me. Nothing belonged to me.”
― Bryn Greenwood, All the Ugly and Wonderful Things

“I liked to play at tragedy, but she drank it out of her baby bottle.”
― Bryn Greenwood, All the Ugly and Wonderful Things

“I was lying on the tracks under a train I was in love with.”
― Bryn Greenwood, All the Ugly and Wonderful Things

“Truth was she took care of him as much as he did her. There was a few times when he was younger that I thought to myself, One of these days, he ain’t gonna show up for work, ’cause he’ll be at home with a gun in his mouth. I had an uncle did that. Jesse Joe was a man with a deep streak of lonely, until Wavy came along.”
― Bryn Greenwood, All the Ugly and Wonderful Things

“From Alpha Centauri, we were twin stars, side by side.”
― Bryn Greenwood, All the Ugly and Wonderful Things

“Nothing belongs to you. It didn’t matter that Grandma gave the cookbook to me. All Mama had to do was hold it in her hands and it was hers.”
― Bryn Greenwood, All the Ugly and Wonderful Things

“I was moving forward into space, but i would never come home again”
― Bryn Greenwood, All the Ugly and Wonderful Things

“That’s not the only thing love means. You just got your mind in the gutter.”
― Bryn Greenwood, All the Ugly and Wonderful Things

“Girl that age ought not to have so many troubles, but she did. Looking at it that way, them two was about made for each other.”
― Bryn Greenwood, All the Ugly and Wonderful Things

“Summer had so many tricks. The nights lasted longer than the days, even though the angle of the Earth’s axis meant that was impossible. The night couldn’t be longer, but summer made it seem that way. Summer sneaked time for me, taking a minute from February, three minutes from English class in March, ten whole minutes from a boring Thursday in April. Summer stole time to give me another hour under the stars with Kellen.”
― Bryn Greenwood, All the Ugly and Wonderful Things

“That’s the problem with the Christmas story: most of the roles are for boys. The only girl is there because men can’t have babies.”
― Bryn Greenwood, All the Ugly and Wonderful Things

“I could have told him there was no sense in rushing toward being dead. It would find you soon
enough, and before it did there were pleasures to make your heart hurt less. If I lay very still in bed at night, I remembered how Grandma’s house smelled. The taste of mint ice cream on Kellen’s tongue. Donal jumping on the bed to wake me up.”
― Bryn Greenwood, All the Ugly and Wonderful Things

“I could have told him there was no sense in rushing toward being dead. It would find you soon enough, and before it did there were pleasures to make your heart hurt less.”
― Bryn Greenwood, All the Ugly and Wonderful Things

“Mr. Arsenikos said if you knew the constellations you would never get lost. You could always find your way home.”
― Bryn Greenwood, All the Ugly and Wonderful Things

“Now you know, okay? From here on out, only you. I promise.”
― Bryn Greenwood, All the Ugly and Wonderful Things

“We didn't need to talk. We just laid there watching falling stars go streaking white through all that darkness.”
― Bryn Greenwood, All the Ugly and Wonderful Things

“After Liam and Butch took Kellen away, I thought about how he left spaces for me when he talked. If I saw him again, I decided I might put words in those spaces.”
― Bryn Greenwood, All the Ugly and Wonderful Things

“I love you, Wavy. I love you." I said it until she relaxed. "Now put your ring back on.”
― Bryn Greenwood, All the Ugly and Wonderful Things

“I’d been going along thinking I was Shakespeare, but I’d written myself out of the play.”
― Bryn Greenwood, All the Ugly and Wonderful Things

“I couldn't say, "I lost the best thing that ever happened to me." Wasn't that punishment enough?”
― Bryn Greenwood, All the Ugly and Wonderful Things

“I mostly liked high school. I liked learning things. How numbers worked together to explain the stars. How molecules made the world. All the ugly and wonderful things people had done in the last two thousand years.”
― Bryn Greenwood, All the Ugly and Wonderful Things