Tell Me When You Feel Something Quotes

“I used to think the truth would be easy to recognize. Undebatable, like your shoe size or the location of the duodenum, but I don't think that anymore. Now I think the truth is more like one of those shape-shifting villains in a sci-fi movie. It somehow manages to be a whole bunch of different things -- opposite things -- at exactly the same time.”
― Vicki Grant, Tell Me When You Feel Something

“Why are you asking me?" Viv said. "Ask your lovely girlfriend."
Tim's lips cinched into a happy little knot. Viv looked at him looking at Davida and thought how it was like watching some lab experiment. Bubbles of mercury running into each other's arms. Iron filings performing their mating dance for the magnet. Cesium exploding at the lightest touch of H2O. Exactly what the laws of chemistry demanded. It was as science-y as that. He'd found his person.”
― Vicki Grant, Tell Me When You Feel Something

“She loved weirdos. She found them so brave. She'd have been one if she could.”
― Vicki Grant, Tell Me When You Feel Something

“Mannequin heads with crushed orbital bones and humorous growths. Stacks of newborn babies. Eyeballs trailing rubbery pink muscles, like a school of prehistoric jellyfish. Viv always laughed when she thought of how Tim described Mandy: "Dr. Frankenstein with a hoarding issue.”
― Vicki Grant, Tell Me When You Feel Something

“This whole conundrum reminds me of that kids' game, "Which would you rather?" Which would you rather: Have your nose torn off by a grizzly or have a lungworm burrow through your eyeball? Have genital leprosy or elephantiasis of the face? Spend the rest of your life alone in a magnificent mansion or live in an overflowing outhouse with Beyonce?
Which would I rather: Tell the truth and break a solemn promise to my comatose friend -- or lie and lose the only girl who ever looked at me like I wasn't some idioot flapdrol? It's a game I can't win.”
― Vicki Grant, Tell Me When You Feel Something

“Flapdrol. That’s his new name for me…It’s not easy to translate but break it apart and you more or less get the gist of it. In Dutch, flap means ‘to dither’ and drol means “shit.” Not nice, but no doubt accurate.”
― Vicki Grant, Tell Me When You Feel Something

“What he says next is going to make all the difference.
"Working or Pa," he says.
"Liar," I say, and walk away.”
― Vicki Grant, Tell Me When You Feel Something

“It’s like someone slams me in the back of the head with a rock or something. That’s how hard it hits me – this, like, rage.”
― Vicki Grant, Tell Me When You Feel Something

“I tried really hard not to find it romantic or tragic or anything like that because I knew that's exactly what he wanted. He can't charm me with his weirdness anymore.”
― Vicki Grant, Tell Me When You Feel Something

“Don't be an idiot. You know what happens to idiots?"
"Yes."
"You don't, but whatever. You get like this again, you call me. I'll pick you up."
"You don't have to. I don't do this all the time. I..."
"And quit lying to me," he said.”
― Vicki Grant, Tell Me When You Feel Something

“Ever tell you about my bike accident, Stu? Changed my life."
He ignored her.
"Changed. My. Life."
He sighed and dropped his earphones onto his neck. "Okay. Make it quick."
"Know why?...Because I saw something terrible." She blinked into the darkness. She'd been so scared.
"You waiting for a drumroll or something?"
"The truth. That's what I saw."
"Wow. The Dalai Lama. In my cab. Drunk. I'm so honoured.”
― Vicki Grant, Tell Me When You Feel Something

“Lots of kids screwed up. Lots of kids disappointed their parents. Lots of kids did nothing with their lives. Viv was just having trouble accepting that she was one of them.”
― Vicki Grant, Tell Me When You Feel Something

“She kept tossing stuff out of her backpack until she found a piece of 'origami roadkill.' That's what Jack called the piles of dirty, randomly folded papers she seemed to collect.”
― Vicki Grant, Tell Me When You Feel Something