Trouble Girls Quotes

“I was a jar of jelly and you were a jar of peanut butter.”
“No, I was peanut butter and you were jelly.”
I shake my head. “No. That can’t be right. I begged and begged Mama for the jelly costume at the mall in the city. She said, ‘Maybe next time,’ and next time we went back, she got it for me.”
“And then you let me wear it, because I insisted that purple was my color.”
― Julia Lynn Rubin, Trouble Girls

“I pull her down to the dusty floor and kiss her hard and deep. She makes an urgent noise deep in her throat and moves to pull off my shirt. I unhook her bra as she cradles my hips in her hands. I kiss down her stomach, and together, on that dust-coated floor, we make our own kind of haunted love.

And it strikes me, on the floor of this abandoned mouth of a house, during the wildest Texas haboob known to man—violent wind crashing against the Victorian again and again like a smashing fist—that right now, I finally have everything I’ve ever wanted, even though the world is ending all around us.”
― Julia Lynn Rubin, Trouble Girls

“This is purgatory, played to a
soundtrack of pop music.”
― Julia Lynn Rubin, Trouble Girls