She Drives Me Crazy Quotes

“Because before you can worry about who’s in your passenger seat, you have to learn to drive yourself.”
― Kelly Quindlen, She Drives Me Crazy

“I remember feeling like I was both too much and not enough.”
― Kelly Quindlen, She Drives Me Crazy

“I hate you," I say. Then I kiss her and kiss her and kiss her.”
― Kelly Quindlen, She Drives Me Crazy

“My sweet girls, let me tell you something. You will move through life and fall in love with many different people, and at some point, you will get your heart broken. It's unavoidable. The key is to not be afraid of the breaking. People break our hearts, but they create more room in them first, and that room makes it possible for us to become more ourselves.”
― Kelly Quindlen, She Drives Me Crazy

“Hi,” she says, her voice level and cool. “This bitch’s name is Irene.”
― Kelly Quindlen, She Drives Me Crazy

“Our fingers brush and I feel the electricity on our skin, radiant enough to power this street full of lights”
― Kelly Quindlen, She Drives Me Crazy

“I’ve been where you are, Scottie. That kind of crazy, flesh-eating pain that consumes every part of you. I understand wanting to get back at them. Wanting their attention, even if it’s in a negative way. But the shitty thing is, that never helps you feel better. It just lands you in a worse situation, like towing the car of a perfectly nice girl who had nothing to do with the pain you’re in.”
― Kelly Quindlen, She Drives Me Crazy

“People break our hearts, but they create more room in them first, and that room makes it possible for us to become more ourselves.”
― Kelly Quindlen, She Drives Me Crazy

“I just wish people could be more creative with their ignorance.”
― Kelly Quindlen, She Drives Me Crazy

“Yes. You'd ask why I like gardening so much, and I'd tell you that I was spending time with myself because I loved myself."
"That always stuck with me. And when Buck came around, you still gardened just as much."
"It lit her up from the inside out," Dad says. He smiles at Mom in the way he always does: like she makes the sun come out. "That's what love is, Scottie. It's letting someone be themselves.”
― Kelly Quindlen, She Drives Me Crazy

“She thinks I should have tried harder. And I don't know, maybe I should have. But sometimes it just hurts too much.”
― Kelly Quindlen, She Drives Me Crazy

“She lays her hand along my jaw and kisses me like she means it, and I am breathless and weightless and dizzy at the very fact of her. Lips and tongue and teeth, her hair and her skin and her perfume, and more than anything, her very essence, her fire and her flaws and that steely determination to be better, to always be better.”
― Kelly Quindlen, She Drives Me Crazy

“You've been authentic since the moment our cars hit. I'd like to be authentic with you, too. I'm not in a great headspace. I haven't been for months. Breaking up with Tally sliced me open in way that embarrasses me, because I feel like I should be over her by now. I don't know how much of this is my fault. Like it's my fault for not seeing the red flags. It's still my fault for believing that she has a good heart deep down. I know she's toxic. I really do. But I miss her in this way that physically hurts. It's like my brain gets it but my heart is lagging behind. I'm grieving even if I don't want to be.”
― Kelly Quindlen, She Drives Me Crazy

“I loved her so much. I thought she was perfect. When I started seeing things I wasn't so sure about, I thought the problem was me and my way of looking at things. It felt like I couldn't tell the ceiling from the floor."
"You have good intuition, honey. You're allowed to trust it," Mom says. "And you are very, very worthy. You're worthy of love you feel good about. Not just from a girl, but from yourself."
"Mom's right," Dad says. "And we can tell you that all day long, but the belief has to come from you.”
― Kelly Quindlen, She Drives Me Crazy

“I want to get to a place where I'm ready or you," I whisper.
"Just get to a place where you know how wonderful you are," she whispers back. "They're one and the same.”
― Kelly Quindlen, She Drives Me Crazy

“You'll have nothing left of her, but you'll have yourself, Scottie”
― Kelly Quindlen, She Drives Me Crazy

“They speak a common language I’ve never understood, with shimmery words like contouring and bandeaus and bralettes. It’s their birthright, this ability to be like any other girl.”
― Kelly Quindlen, She Drives Me Crazy

“I shrug, unperturbed. 'I just think it's funny when you're weird.'
'Everyone's weird.' She rolls away and turns off the light. 'Goodnight. Touch me and you die.”
― Kelly Quindlen, She Drives Me Crazy

“You didn’t cut her out, she cut you out. But sure, good for you for keeping your dignity instead of backsliding. That doesn’t mean you can stand there acting all high and mighty as if you’ve never done anything wrong in your life. You—towed—my fucking—car”—my voice is shaking now, and tears are falling from my eyes—“because you used to be just like Charlotte, picking on people simply because you could. That doesn’t make you better than me. That doesn’t even make you better than her—”
― Kelly Quindlen, She Drives Me Crazy

“It's like . . . I'm holding on to this shred of her, and even though it's a bad shred, it's still something. The moment I let that shred go, I'll have nothing left.”
― Kelly Quindlen, She Drives Me Crazy

“I'm surprised you can stand with a spine that weak.”
― Kelly Quindlen, She Drives Me Crazy

“It takes me a while to fall asleep. I can feel Irene struggling, too. It feels too intimate, too revealing, to sleep alongside each other like this. I'm too attuned to her breathing cycle, to the sound of her cheek finding the cold part of the pillow. I'm too aware of the smell of her hair, only inches from my face.”
― Kelly Quindlen, She Drives Me Crazy

“before you can worry about who’s in your passenger seat, you have to learn to drive yourself.”
― Kelly Quindlen, She Drives Me Crazy

“You would be wrong.”
― Kelly Quindlen, She Drives Me Crazy

“I've been where you are, Scottie. That kind of flesh-eating pain that consumes every part of you. I understand wanting to get back at them. Wanting their attention, even if it's in a negative way. But the shitty thing is, that never helps you feel better. It just lands you in a worse situation, like towing the car of a perfectly nice girl who had nothing to do with the pain you're in.”
― Kelly Quindlen, She Drives Me Crazy

“Can I ask you something?" I say. "Are you over Charlotte?"
She tilts her head, searching me. I wonder if she can she the truth on my face: that I want her to say no. I want to know I'm not alone in this pain, this confusion. I want to know that she understands how it feels to be falling in new love and bleeding from old love at the same time.”
― Kelly Quindlen, She Drives Me Crazy

“A trickle of bile runs down my throat. "No one else seems to think that."
"Who cares what anyone else thinks? What do you think?"
"Thora, do you really believe that no one else's opinion matters?
"Absolutely." She shrugs as if it's as easy as two plus two. "At the end of the day, I'm the only one living my life. Why should I answer to anyone else?"
"You obviously don't remember high school very well."
She snorts. "Of course I do. The unspoken social hierarchy sucks. But do you know what I've figured out since then?" She dances her fingers in front of my eyes. "It's all perception, Scots. Making people see what you want them to see. If you want them to think that you matter, start acting like they should already know that you matter.”
― Kelly Quindlen, She Drives Me Crazy

“She had yet to learn that playing for a losing girl's basketball team in a quirky suburban town made you a nobody. I had yet to learn that being a nobody is supposed to bother me.”
― Kelly Quindlen, She Drives Me Crazy

“I slam my locker closed and try to lose myself in conversation with my friends, but it’s like an invisible string has tethered me to Irene and I’ll spend the whole day linked to her no matter what I do.”
― Kelly Quindlen, She Drives Me Crazy

“I don’t get it,” Daphne cuts in. Her voice is soft and quiet. “I’ve always thought you were amazing. Why did you need Tally to show you that?”
― Kelly Quindlen, She Drives Me Crazy