This Is All Your Fault Quotes

“Would it kill you to just honestly like a thing?”
― Aminah Mae Safi, This Is All Your Fault

“But that’s the problem with creeps. It’s always on the victims to expose them and the victims to bear the brunt of what people believe. The vulnerable risk everything. The powerful can just point at everything that they have amassed, as though that’s an argument against potential injustice and misbehavior.”
― Aminah Mae Safi, This Is All Your Fault

“Actually, not smoke, no. They’ve gone up in Air Jordans and a fistfight”
― Aminah Mae Safi, This Is All Your Fault

“don’t know. I guess I always thought you had this perfect life with your perfect social media presence and your perfect hair and your perfect attitude and your perfect happiness and your perfect ability to make friends. You never seemed human. And it turns out you’re just as capable of being cracked as the rest of us.”
― Aminah Mae Safi, This Is All Your Fault

“This was not the Little Miss Sunshine they were accustomed to working with, and Imogen could understand how this would freeze even the least adult of adults that Imogen had ever known. But Jo must have hit her limits when she caught sight of a girl sobbing maniacally in a room and throwing dollar”
― Aminah Mae Safi, This Is All Your Fault

“Are you really so out of touch that you disdain every feeling on planet Earth? Do you really not love anything at all?”
― Aminah Mae Safi, This Is All Your Fault

“And he could profit so much more easily off the land than doing the work to run an independent bookstore.”
― Aminah Mae Safi, This Is All Your Fault

“The bookstore is closing. Count your blessings in the gratitude journal you clearly keep.”
― Aminah Mae Safi, This Is All Your Fault

“And Daniella—with her lies and her moral gymnastics—she had the heart of steel necessary to protect her and her”
― Aminah Mae Safi, This Is All Your Fault

“After all, what was a lie to a girl who pretended to be a poet on one corner of the internet all while she took videos of herself vaping on the other end just to be cool enough not to shake up the social hierarchy?”
― Aminah Mae Safi, This Is All Your Fault

“Told her that they were two girls who were never going to get along and were made to fight with each other, almost on a visceral, cellular level. As though the smallest pieces that made up Imogen were diametrically opposed to the tiniest pieces that made up Cool Girl.”
― Aminah Mae Safi, This Is All Your Fault

“What’s right and what is expedient are two different things.”
― Aminah Mae Safi, This Is All Your Fault

“She didn’t know how to talk about the fact that she often wondered if the reason she succeeded as a Latinx girl with a book account on the internet was because she was half-white and because she was ethnically ambiguous-looking. That she must have benefited from some strange proximity to whiteness and that she was benefiting still by the way her account had grown. That she didn’t know if she deserved all the followers that she had amassed.”
― Aminah Mae Safi, This Is All Your Fault

“It feels kind of poetic that my love of books gets to pay for so many educations. But it definitely adds pressure. To perform. To do well. To look a certain way on camera. To have a certain rate of engagement for every post.”
― Aminah Mae Safi, This Is All Your Fault

“Is it weird, turning something you love into a business?”
― Aminah Mae Safi, This Is All Your Fault

“Her book account had transformed so long ago from something she did for herself to a business that she ought to have found it easy not to take it personally.”
― Aminah Mae Safi, This Is All Your Fault

“you to have a much better attitude here, prince of accidental larceny.”
― Aminah Mae Safi, This Is All Your Fault

“You don’t know what to do, but you did know how to steal nine thousand dollars of the bookstore’s money?”
― Aminah Mae Safi, This Is All Your Fault

“She was a hot mess that had cooled off, leaving behind ashes and sludge.”
― Aminah Mae Safi, This Is All Your Fault

“Numbers were honest. Numbers, theoretically, didn’t lie.”
― Aminah Mae Safi, This Is All Your Fault

“Hell, courtesy of his eighteenth birthday, his petty criminal record had been wiped clean. Nobody in Chicago had even considered trying a fourteen-year-old white boy with curly blond hair as an adult for a string of grocery and convenience store beer thefts. He was just a boy to them, being a boy.”
― Aminah Mae Safi, This Is All Your Fault

“The world was an unholy and random dumpster fire, so stick it to the man as much as you can.”
― Aminah Mae Safi, This Is All Your Fault

“was as though the store had been left behind to rot among the ashes of the book resurgence. It didn’t make sense. The store had the right vibe and the right location and somehow it was still floundering. Still sinking under the weight of its inventory.”
― Aminah Mae Safi, This Is All Your Fault