Poor Things Quotes

“Adolescence is an earthquake, one that feels like it will never end while you're living it, and eventually there comes a choice. You can crawl under your desk and hide, or you can stand up on top of that shaking desk and dance.”
― Daniel Barnett, Poor Things

“I remember my wheels bouncing on the asphalt and red earth gushing down the mountainside and lightning setting off thunderworks in the sky, everything loud, everything bright, Fourth of July in a bottomless Fall.”
― Daniel Barnett, Poor Things

“Sometimes a person can have a lot of good things but not the right thing, or at least not enough of it. Sometimes passion is like falling in love alone.”
― Daniel Barnett, Poor Things

“He was a bridge, like the rest of us were bridges, like Honaw was a great big bridge, on one side life and on the other death and beneath it the troll who wouldn’t let anybody pass.”
― Daniel Barnett, Poor Things

“Unconsciousness is a teleporter. When the low-rider struck me on that winding road outside of Honaw and sent me flipping up into the air like a coin, heads over tails over heads over tails, I landed on a cotton-white mattress under starched-white sheets, my aunt asleep in a nearby chair.”
― Daniel Barnett, Poor Things

“I think we all have that place where we feel closest to ourselves, where the mind slides into perfect orbit around the heart. Mine used to be on the football field, running the ball or running down the guy with the ball. Now it’s the road, that place between here and there.”
― Daniel Barnett, Poor Things

“I think we all have that place where we feel closest to ourselves, where the mind slides into perfect orbit around the heart.”
― Daniel Barnett, Poor Things

“That was light for you. Light was always nosing around, looking to explore, expose. Pull the blinds and in it comes. Open the door at night and out it goes. The dark was different. The dark liked exactly where it was.”
― Daniel Barnett, Poor Things

“In the dictionary under ‘adolescence’ you’ll find a bunch of stuff about transitional periods and developmental phases, and that all may be accurate enough if you’re writing a paper for Health class, but only one word defines ‘adolescence’ and that word is ‘earthquake.”
― Daniel Barnett, Poor Things

“Poor poor thing,” said my mom. The deer lay across the double-yellow, its stomach blown out like a bad tire and steaming in the cool country air. That steam should have told me right then that what we were staring at was fresh, hot off the platter, but the thought didn’t cross my mind. Not until the deer lifted its head, and Jesus Christ, it wasn’t dead, it was dying, the deer was ripped in half and it was still dying.”
― Daniel Barnett, Poor Things

“He erases the problem on the board and writes, Without death, what is left for the dying? I know the answer to that, too. “Pain.”
― Daniel Barnett, Poor Things

“C’est la vie,”
― Daniel Barnett, Poor Things