Neighborhood Girls Quotes

“I understood now that forgiveness was like letting go of a deep, long-held breath, or like stepping out into the city on the coldest day of the year. It didn't make you feel better. It just made you feel alive.”
― Jessie Ann Foley, Neighborhood Girls

“There's something about physical pain that almost feels like relief - it's so simple, so clean; you know exactly why you have it and exactly where it came from and exactly what you need to do to make it stop. I'd take it any day over loneliness or fear or heartbreak or that weird lost feeling that had dogged me ever since the day I decided not to be Alexis's friend anymore.”
― Jessie Ann Foley, Neighborhood Girls

“It was like we had discovered an opening in the fabric of the everyday and found beneath it a secret world that was ours alone, and I wondered if this secret world was what people meant when they talked about love.”
― Jessie Ann Foley, Neighborhood Girls