Girls of Glass Quotes

“If you feel like you don’t have a choice, you’re just ignoring the options that you don’t want to consider.”
― Brianna Labuskes, Girls of Glass

“Grief could warp reality into something unrecognizable.”
― Brianna Labuskes, Girls of Glass

“Don’t say something that’s not true because it sounds nice. Because it fits what you want it to be. Say I’m not crazy. Say I’m normal. Fine. Don’t say I’m strong when I’m not.”
― Brianna Labuskes, Girls of Glass

“Emotions, as always, were the enemy, dangerous and deceptive. They clouded judgments, they altered reality, they directed focus from what was important.”
― Brianna Labuskes, Girls of Glass

“It’s strange, isn’t it? How we’re always the good guy in our own story. The protagonist.”
― Brianna Labuskes, Girls of Glass

“I get that you’re pissed. But getting irrational isn’t going to help the situation.”
― Brianna Labuskes, Girls of Glass

“Do you ever do that? Have arguments in your head long after the fact? The words you wanted to say, wished you were brave enough to say, rattling around there as if they meant something? As if they weren’t just empty thoughts that will never see the light of day?”
― Brianna Labuskes, Girls of Glass

“It says, going into an investigation with a preconceived assumption of guilt blinds you to any other options,”
― Brianna Labuskes, Girls of Glass

“A dissociative disorder involves an involuntary escape from reality, characterized by a disconnection between thoughts, identity, consciousness, and memory”
― Brianna Labuskes, Girls of Glass

“That’s what people didn’t understand about this grief. It was fundamental. The person you were before this happened was eviscerated, destroyed. In its place was someone unrecognizable.”
― Brianna Labuskes, Girls of Glass

“There was a script she was supposed to follow, lines she could read that would ensure the person who asked felt validated in their concern but not burdened by her emotions.”
― Brianna Labuskes, Girls of Glass

“The headache that had started as a low thrum had worked its way up to miniature elves Riverdancing on her frontal lobe.”
― Brianna Labuskes, Girls of Glass

“I’m fine,” she repeated, and she wondered if those words would ever hold meaning again. She couldn’t remember the last time she’d said them and it hadn’t been a lie.”
― Brianna Labuskes, Girls of Glass

“As if they were worried she was one wrong word away from shattering and spilling the crazy everywhere. As if they were worried it would get all over them.”
― Brianna Labuskes, Girls of Glass

“them. Something brushed her shoulder, and Alice realized that Nakamura had come to stand next to her, his leg pressing against the length of her arm. She leaned into the contact, thankful for the steadying presence. Her eyes shifted up along the girl’s body, which was draped in fabric. The wind caught the edge of the sheet, lifting it, and something scraped against the back of”
― Brianna Labuskes, Girls of Glass

“Alice had a gun but no plan. She stopped at the end of the alley and looked left, looked right. The animal in her, the one whose sole focus was survival, howled at her that it wasn’t too late to escape. Here was her chance.”
― Brianna Labuskes, Girls of Glass

“They both shifted their gazes to Charlotte. The woman was about ten years younger than Alice but had a similar build: tall and thin with long limbs and shoulders that were a touch too broad. However, Charlotte, unlike Alice, carried her willowy frame with an easy grace that, combined with a delicate bone structure in her face, turned her into a dreamy Romantic painting.”
― Brianna Labuskes, Girls of Glass

“Alice shrugged off her own concerns, let them fall to the dirty floor to take up residence with the Coke and salt that coated the tiles. It wasn’t her problem.”
― Brianna Labuskes, Girls of Glass

“pouring coffee, so she went with”
― Brianna Labuskes, Girls of Glass