Rock Bottom Girl Quotes

“Losing is never the end of the world. Losing is where the learning starts.”
― Lucy Score, Rock Bottom Girl

“It was one of those moments when I had to take a mental step back and wonder when the hell I’d turned into an adult. And when the hell would I start feeling like one.”
― Lucy Score, Rock Bottom Girl

“Don’t waste your time in relationships that lack respect.”
― Lucy Score, Rock Bottom Girl

“I didn’t have to be out there making a difference for thousands of people in order to matter. I could make my difference one person at a time. Starting with me. There was nowhere else in the world I’d rather be. And that was the secret, I realized. It didn’t matter what my salary was. Whether or not I had a corner office and an assistant. This feeling, this contentment, was what mattered most.”
― Lucy Score, Rock Bottom Girl

“For being a shitty team player and having a craptastic attitude. Newsflash, you want to act like a jerk, do it at home to your parents who made you this way. Now, run.”
― Lucy Score, Rock Bottom Girl

“Why couldn’t mean people be ugly on the outside, too?”
― Lucy Score, Rock Bottom Girl

“She greeted me with her hands extended, and I didn’t know what to do, so I took them both and made a weird little curtsy. Had I lost the ability to people?”
― Lucy Score, Rock Bottom Girl

“Our strength comes from our diversity, our willingness to change, to fight inequality, to explode scientific advancement.”
― Lucy Score, Rock Bottom Girl

“It’s like I missed the day in school when they told us how to be an adult.”
― Lucy Score, Rock Bottom Girl

“A therapist would have a field day with my constant need to prove that I was at least adequate.”
― Lucy Score, Rock Bottom Girl

“Social media is how you fantasize your life should be. Not the reality of”
― Lucy Score, Rock Bottom Girl

“Was there anything sexier than a shirtless man with a doofy dog? I pondered that thought while Jake and I muscled our way through another early morning run. Homer, the Goldendoodle something or other, was lazy and grumbly and kept stopping to pretend to pee. I admired his strategy.”
― Lucy Score, Rock Bottom Girl

“Pennsylvania entertained a very long winter and summer punctuated with a day or two that could be considered a life-affirming spring and cozy, crisp fall.”
― Lucy Score, Rock Bottom Girl

“Do I really look like my prime years are behind me?” I asked Vicky. “Oh, sweetie.” She tucked a stray lock of limp hair behind my ear. “Yes. But that doesn’t mean they are.”
― Lucy Score, Rock Bottom Girl

“You and Mr. Weston?” “No way.” “Were you prettier in high school?” I hated teenagers.”
― Lucy Score, Rock Bottom Girl

“There are people who take too much responsibility for everything and the people who don’t take responsibility for anything.”
― Lucy Score, Rock Bottom Girl

“Natalee scoffed. “That’s adorable. And so wrong. You don’t make an effort for other people. You do it for yourself.” “Duh,” Morgan E. added. Okay. That was a lot different from my high school days. Everything everyone did back then was for the approval of other people. “Wait, wait, wait.” I waved a hand in the air and then pointed at Natalee. “You’re telling me you don’t spend forty minutes every morning on your hair and makeup to look good for boys?” She rolled her eyes. “I don’t even know where to begin with that erroneousness.” I wondered if erroneousness was a word. “First of all, it’s closer to an hour. Looking my best makes me feel my best. Guys don’t notice whether you have a smokey eye or the right shade of lip liner. They notice when you’re confident. Which serves a two-fold purpose,” Natalee instructed. “If you’re confident,” Ruby said, popping up in the aisle, “you’re more attractive and interesting, and it’s harder for assh—jerks to mess with you.” “True story,” Angela agreed. “If you’re confident, you’re not an easy victim.”
― Lucy Score, Rock Bottom Girl

“I gave a sad laugh. “It’s hard not to feel like a loser. And this job isn’t making me feel much better now that I’m physically losing.” “That’s because you’re looking for outside validation.” I lifted my head off of his shoulder. “Okay, Dr. Phil.” “I’m serious. I’ve spent the last fifteen years working with teenagers. I’m practically a life coach. You need to figure out what would make you more confident in yourself. No amount of ‘atta girls’ from other people is going to give you that swagger you’re looking for. You’re a hell of a girl, Mars. Start acting like it.” “And how would you suggest I make myself more confident?” “Set some goals. Things you wanna accomplish. Then go out and crush ’em. Start with some small ones, things you can definitely do. But don’t be afraid to put bigger, scarier shit on that list. Every time you cross one of them off, you just proved to yourself that you can do something good.” “Wow.” Okay, maybe I was tired. Or maybe it was the intoxicating pheromones of cigar smoke and sexy man, but that actually made sense. “You really are like a life coach.” “Stick with me, pretty girl. Stick with me.”
― Lucy Score, Rock Bottom Girl

“We’re all just overgrown teenagers running around trying to be happy.”
― Lucy Score, Rock Bottom Girl

“We study history so we don’t make the same mistakes over and over again. So we can grow. Do better.”
― Lucy Score, Rock Bottom Girl

“The teaching of history was, traditionally, one of the most boring things ever invented. We white-washed our country’s doings, painted a bunch of white dudes as heroes, and swept everyone else’s good deeds under the rug of gender and race.”
― Lucy Score, Rock Bottom Girl

“The secret is relevance,” he lectured. “If you can’t make whatever the hell you’re teaching relevant to them, you can’t really expect them to care.”
― Lucy Score, Rock Bottom Girl

“Good girl. Now, breathe in for three steps. Nice and steady. And out. In for three. Out for two. This is called rhythmic breathing.”
― Lucy Score, Rock Bottom Girl

“not the greatest country in the world. But we’ve still got potential. Our strength comes from our diversity, our willingness to change, to fight inequality, to explode scientific advancement.”
― Lucy Score, Rock Bottom Girl

“What the hell were you thinking? First of all, it’s too fucking hot to run sprints.”
― Lucy Score, Rock Bottom Girl

“I wore a baseball cap out in public. I refused to go to any local bars or Walmart. I pretended to be a stranger.”
― Lucy Score, Rock Bottom Girl

“I wasn’t a stranger to makeup or hair products. It wasn’t that long ago that I’d dressed in nice pants and pretty shirts and worn mascara every single day. But it had all seemed pointless given my current circumstances.”
― Lucy Score, Rock Bottom Girl

“I cleared my throat. “Mr. Cicero, about your shorts.” “Keep them,” he said. “And let’s never speak of this again.”
― Lucy Score, Rock Bottom Girl

“Angela stopped and faced the team. “Don’t let my sacrifice be in vain. Win this, bitches,” she said. Ruby approached and put her hand on Angela’s shoulder. “We will win this for you, Cleat Face.”
― Lucy Score, Rock Bottom Girl

“studio as an Airbnb?”
― Lucy Score, Rock Bottom Girl