The Good Luck Girls Quotes

“That’s what I hate most about the Reckoning, I think. The way it makes desperate folks turn on each other. You’re right—we need to be helping each other. It’s the only way.”
― Charlotte Nicole Davis, The Good Luck Girls

“I'm not okay. It was a simple thought, but there was something huge and terrifying in it. She couldn't afford to think that way. She had to be strong. Weakness was not an option, had never been an option.”
― Charlotte Nicole Davis, The Good Luck Girls

“False hope was too cruel a gift to give a friend.”
― Charlotte Nicole Davis, The Good Luck Girls

“You can’t help but care about some stuff, and pretending you don’t never solves the problem,” he said thoughtfully. “But anger … anger gets things done. Sometimes, at least. You just have to make sure you’re using it, and never the other way around. That’s when you get reckless, that’s when you end up hurting yourself and the people you care about. But the anger alone doesn’t make someone a bad person, I don’t think. It just makes them human.”
― Charlotte Nicole Davis, The Good Luck Girls

“Wander well.”
― Charlotte Nicole Davis, The Good Luck Girls

“But, more than that, Aster found herself thinking of Violet, of Zee, of Sam and Eli. People Aster had trusted despite her fears, people who had rewarded that trust. There were times when refusing to give folks a chance could be more dangerous than putting your faith in them. Times when you couldn’t do it alone. Times when you needed help.”
― Charlotte Nicole Davis, The Good Luck Girls

“It was foolish to trust anyone. To hope for the best. To play fair in an unfair world.”
― Charlotte Nicole Davis, The Good Luck Girls

“It scares me, though, Eli... how angry I am, all the time," Aster admitted.
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Eli sucked his teeth. “I don't know. You can’t help but care about some stuff, and pretending you don’t never solves the problem,” he said thoughtfully. “But anger … anger gets things done. Sometimes, at least. You just have to make sure you’re using it, and never the other way around.”
― Charlotte Nicole Davis, The Good Luck Girls

“A drink to get rich, a drink to get wed, a drink for the living, and two for the dead!”
― Charlotte Nicole Davis, The Good Luck Girls

“Women were supposed to be grateful if they got taken away to live in a welcome house. Men were supposed to be grateful if they escaped to a hole in the ground.”
― Charlotte Nicole Davis, The Good Luck Girls