Our Little Racket Quotes

“Scepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness. —George Santayana, Scepticism and Animal Faith”
― Angelica Baker, Our Little Racket

“She’d never understood what they were so afraid of revealing to their colleagues, for that’s what these women were to one another, really. These weren’t friendships; these were mutual agreements to aid and abet one another’s tireless campaigns for unspecified triumphs.”
― Angelica Baker, Our Little Racket

“Teenage girls were so desperate to be needed. None of them actually wanted boyfriends, or high drama, or true pain. They just wanted to feel essential, exposed in some crucial way to the vicissitudes of the world. And so they did things like give blow jobs in movie theaters, cry in public when something tragic happened to strangers across the country, throw themselves into her path in the hallway to ask her how Madison was feeling today. How she was managing. Did Amanda know anything. They just wanted the communal energy of crisis, the sense that they had to yank their best selves from somewhere deep within. They wanted, so very badly, to rise to the occasion.”
― Angelica Baker, Our Little Racket