The Law of Tall Girls Quotes

“None of us was normal. But “normal,” as I’d learned in math, was just a statistical concept, an averaged smoothing out of all diverse and interesting permutations to some hypothetical midpoint so generalized it was unlikely to surprise or offend. Or to delight. Normal was nice. Normal was bland. Normal was damned boring. Our differences, our own brand of crazy, were what made each of us special and unique and fascinating.”
― Joanne Macgregor, The Law of Tall Girls

“The rest of us, the majority of us, all felt like misfits in some way. Each of us was unique, different in some way that made us strange or unacceptable to those who wanted us to conform to their definition of “normal.”
― Joanne Macgregor, The Law of Tall Girls

“Maybe that’s what coming to terms with grief was. It wasn’t that one day you suddenly got over it and felt better, back to the way you’d felt before. It was that you learned to live around it, that you struggled on living through it, that you grew yourself beyond it, until one day your life and your love were bigger than your pain and emptiness. You never got back to normal, but you could, if you were brave, get to somewhere good.”
― Joanne Macgregor, The Law of Tall Girls

“It didn’t matter who you dated, or how you looked. What mattered was how you felt. And I felt on top of the world, like the queen of all of me.”
― Joanne Macgregor, The Law of Tall Girls

“Life is tough for all of us. You don’t have to play small for the benefit of others,”
― Joanne Macgregor, The Law of Tall Girls

“13”
― Joanne Macgregor, The Law of Tall Girls

“No one can make you feel embarrassed without your cooperation. So you’ve got to have a sense of humor about this, or pretend you do. Laugh along with the jokes, smile at the envy.”
― Joanne Macgregor, The Law of Tall Girls

“Iwas good at keeping secrets. I had to be. I’d learned how to hide things, how to prevent anybody finding out the truth. And I’d had loads of practice concealing what I felt, at hiding the real me. Turns out this was a good thing, because I was still disguising how I felt about the boy playing Romero to my Juliet.”
― Joanne Macgregor, The Law of Tall Girls

“Don’t judge me by the things I did minutes ago. I’ve changed since then,” she said in a wounded tone. “Besides, I’m your best friend, and he’s nobody to you. And you know what they say?” “I’m sure you’ll tell me.” “Sisters before misters,” she said as we entered the classroom and took our seats. “That is what they say, Peyton, sisters before misters.” “Right.” “It’s like ovaries before brovaries. It means you should share stuff with your girlfriends that you wouldn’t with guys.” “Uh-huh.”
― Joanne Macgregor, The Law of Tall Girls

“When I am queen of the world, I’ll abolish the class structure and redress the inequities of capitalism.”
― Joanne Macgregor, The Law of Tall Girls

“The end”
― Joanne Macgregor, The Law of Tall Girls

“Not a princess,” I said. “A queen.”
― Joanne Macgregor, The Law of Tall Girls

“borage flowers,”
― Joanne Macgregor, The Law of Tall Girls

“one day,”
― Joanne Macgregor, The Law of Tall Girls

“Hate to break it to you, kiddo, but you used them all.”
― Joanne Macgregor, The Law of Tall Girls

“Fresh coffee in a French press, mugs of hot chocolate topped with teeny marshmallows, homemade snickerdoodles, and apple pie.”
― Joanne Macgregor, The Law of Tall Girls

“You would care a lot less about what people think of you, if you knew how seldom they did.”
― Joanne Macgregor, The Law of Tall Girls

“For God’s sake, will you stop answering my questions! They’re rhetorical — do you even know what that means?”
― Joanne Macgregor, The Law of Tall Girls

“Sisters before misters,”
― Joanne Macgregor, The Law of Tall Girls

“On Sunday, Chloe came around and, over cups of Cinnamon Surprise which she rated “disappointingly one-noted”,”
― Joanne Macgregor, The Law of Tall Girls

“proverbs being proved true.”
― Joanne Macgregor, The Law of Tall Girls

“They’re my special collector’s edition of One Direction gel pens. And, FYI, they’re super-valuable now that the band has broken up.”
― Joanne Macgregor, The Law of Tall Girls

“Romero and Juliet.”
― Joanne Macgregor, The Law of Tall Girls

“No, not big, googly.”
― Joanne Macgregor, The Law of Tall Girls

“You’ve got freckles!”
― Joanne Macgregor, The Law of Tall Girls

“hushpuppy ready-mix;”
― Joanne Macgregor, The Law of Tall Girls

“Error 401: access denied,”
― Joanne Macgregor, The Law of Tall Girls

“Pay them no mind, Peyton. Steve here knows less of the world than a June-bug.”
― Joanne Macgregor, The Law of Tall Girls

“Your playing small does not serve the world.” — Marianne Williamson”
― Joanne Macgregor, The Law of Tall Girls