Delilah Green Doesn't Care Quotes

“This is what I want,” Delilah said. “My whole life, this is what I’ve wanted. A best friend. Someone who gets me, who accepts me. Someone who fights like hell to get me to see that they love me. Someone who lets me love them back. Someone who’s so goddamn beautiful, she makes my toes curl. Someone who calls me on my bullshit. Someone who makes me laugh. Someone who makes me look at her like this and looks at me the same way. Someone who . . . who’s my home.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Delilah Green Doesn't Care

“And Delilah had gotten through life by putting herself first, only concentrating herself with what she knew was true, because she’d learned a long time ago that she couldn’t control anyone but herself. She couldn’t change anyone’s mind, couldn’t make someone love her who had no interest in doing so, and couldn’t keep someone from leaving her if that’s what they wanted to do.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Delilah Green Doesn't Care

“It occurred to Delilah that this was probably the longest she'd ever really looked at her stepsister. She'd spent years perfecting the art of avoidance, of protection, of never letting Astrid see how much Delilah was hurting. If eyes were the window into the soul, Delilah's had long been shuttered.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Delilah Green Doesn't Care

“Okay, I’ll give you that Wuthering Heights is the least romantic book in the history of Victorian romances, but Jane Eyre?”

“Is that the one where the douchebag hid his wife away in the attic and then lied about it to the girl he wanted to bang who was, like, half his age?”

Claire winced. “Well, when you put it like that.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Delilah Green Doesn't Care

“That's a lot of feels,” Iris said.
“And you know how I hate those,” Astrid said, replying without humor”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Delilah Green Doesn't Care

“Tattoos vined down her bare arms. God, Claire loved a good tattooed arm.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Delilah Green Doesn't Care

“Delilah Green didn’t care. Because they’d never once cared about her.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Delilah Green Doesn't Care

“And what was more, Delilah didn’t want this to be only that, just kisses and coming. She wanted . . . this. Roller skating and amazing sex and this peaceful sort of talking and not talking, cuddling and questions and a place to belong. A person to belong to.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Delilah Green Doesn't Care

“If eyes were the window into the soul, Delilah’s had long been shuttered.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Delilah Green Doesn't Care

“Ruby saw the world in a way that felt familiar to Delilah, an artist’s point of view, and it could be a lonely way to move through life. Ruby wasn’t alone, of course. She had myriad people who cared about her, so she and Delilah were different in that way. But in other ways, with this little birdbath and what it might symbolize, they were alike.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Delilah Green Doesn't Care

“But then she moved her arms around Ruby, pressed her cheek to the top of her hair. She exhaled what felt like a decade’s worth of anxiety, and accepted the girl’s love.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Delilah Green Doesn't Care

“Did she actually want a sister and Delilah simply didn’t know how to be one? How to be anything to anyone as a little girl who’d just lost the only person who’d ever made her feel wanted?”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Delilah Green Doesn't Care

“Iris lifted her glass. “To shitty men and the women who put them in their goddamn place.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Delilah Green Doesn't Care

“Delilah Green didn’t care. Because they’d never once cared about her. She slumped against the door, pressed her forehead to the thick inlaid glass. Not caring was fucking exhausting.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Delilah Green Doesn't Care

“One strap of her tank top had slid a little down her shoulder, and Delilah fought the urge to put it back in place-or slide it down even farther.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Delilah Green Doesn't Care

“A place to belong; a person to belong to.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Delilah Green Doesn't Care

“She didn’t scream or yell. She never had in all the time Delilah had known her, but Christ, that woman could spit out an invective like no one else, her tone always measured and cold, which, honestly, made everything worse.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Delilah Green Doesn't Care

“which just reminded her how desperate she was to be something, someone in this world. Someone who mattered and who people remembered, who people wondered about and sought out, even if they were just strangers chasing the emotions her photographs evoked.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Delilah Green Doesn't Care

“It was fascinating to see this bold, brash woman look like a deer wandering in the woods. Claire wasn’t sure what it was all about, but she really wanted to know, which was exactly why she swallowed her questions with a too-big gulp of alcohol.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Delilah Green Doesn't Care

“It’s always a risk,” Claire said, “talking to another woman in a bar. Not that I do this all that often.” “A risk?” Claire nodded. “You could be straight as an arrow.” Delilah laughed but gave nothing away. “And you’re not?” “Oh.” And the blush was back. “No, not at all.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Delilah Green Doesn't Care

“You showed up for family, even if you got paid for it and gritted your teeth the entire time.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Delilah Green Doesn't Care

“I’m putting you first, Claire. In case you couldn’t tell, that’s what’s happening here.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Delilah Green Doesn't Care

“She wanted the Delilah hanging up there on the wall to be the real Delilah. Strong and resilient. Battered by the world and circumstances beyond her control, sure, but instead of resentful and angry, that woman was calm. Peaceful. Serene. Grateful. She belonged somewhere, despite years and years of emotional displacement. She’d found something. She’d been found by someone.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Delilah Green Doesn't Care

“Aunt Iris finally punched you, huh?” she said. “I’m glad to see my work is noted and appreciated,” Iris said.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Delilah Green Doesn't Care

“And it was from these images, Claire, beautiful and in pain in the river, that Delilah got the idea for a series that would define her style, her whole career. Queer women, turmoil, and water.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Delilah Green Doesn't Care

“And for the first time since her father died, Delilah hadn’t felt alone in Wisteria House.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Delilah Green Doesn't Care

“No one could ever accuse Delilah of feeling affection for her stepsister, but she felt even less for assholes who so obviously wielded their dicks like swords.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Delilah Green Doesn't Care

“My whole life, this is what I've wanted. A best friend. Someone who gets me, who accepts me. Someone who fights like hell to get me to see that they love me. Someone who lets me love them back. Someone who's so godddamn beautiful, she makes my toes curl. Someone who calls me on my bullshit. Someone who makes me laugh. Someone who makes me look at her like this and looks at me the same way. Someone who... who's my home. (pg 365-364)”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Delilah Green Doesn't Care

“Claire, Iris, Ruby, the wedding and the money she'd be paid for it, even the show at the Whitney, which just reminded her how desperate she was to be something, someone in this world. Someone who mattered and who people remembered, who people wondered about and sought out, even if they were just strangers chasing the emotions her photographs evoked. (277)”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Delilah Green Doesn't Care

“Ruby saw the world in a way that felt familiar to Delilah, an artist's point of view, and it could be a lonely way to move through life. (266)”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Delilah Green Doesn't Care