The Initial Insult Quotes

“Neat,” I say, which is a nice word that when you say it just right, becomes something else. Years of listening to Mom and Dad have taught me how to wield tone like a weapon.”
― Mindy McGinnis, The Initial Insult

“...If I can't feel the good things anymore, then doing a few bad ones shouldn't hurt a bit.
And they are long overdue.”
― Mindy McGinnis, The Initial Insult

“when you point at someone, there’s three fingers pointing back at you.”
― Mindy McGinnis, The Initial Insult

“New money might spend the same as old,”
― Mindy McGinnis, The Initial Insult

“I know that house because it knows me, and we’ve both been abandoned. There are dark corners inside of it, as there are in me. And if it’s going to be destroyed, I’ve got someone in mind to go down with it.”
― Mindy McGinnis, The Initial Insult

“She and my mom might have had the same last name and shared the same blood, but it takes more than that to make someone family.”
― Mindy McGinnis, The Initial Insult

“Because if I stop drinking and drop the pills, if I take better care of myself and let good people love me and give my own love to those who deserve it, I’ll have everything that Tress Montor doesn’t. And I don’t deserve that. Because I’m the reason she has nothing.”
― Mindy McGinnis, The Initial Insult

“I’ve borne it all with patience, the years of small cuts that heal over, my heart a pulpy mass of scars. But it was still beating, at least I could say that, right up until she took Goldie from me. Now it’s a dead thing, still in my chest. And if I can’t feel the good things anymore, then doing a few bad ones shouldn’t hurt a bit.”
― Mindy McGinnis, The Initial Insult

“I’ve borne it all with patience, the years of small cuts that heal over, my heart a pulpy mass of scars. But it was still beating, at least I could say that, right up until she took Goldie from me. Now it’s a dead thing, still in my chest. And if I can’t feel the good things anymore, then doing a few bad ones shouldn’t hurt a bit.

And they are long overdue.”
― Mindy McGinnis, The Initial Insult