Very Bad People Quotes

“Momma’s death has been eating away at her, she has never once shown me. There is something very dark about that.”
― Kit Frick, Very Bad People

“You told me the truth wouldn’t shed any light on what happened in the car that day. But that’s a lie. If you or Danny had told the police the truth about where Momma was taking us, it would have ruled out their murder-suicide theory. Don’t you understand how much that would have meant to the rest of us?”
― Kit Frick, Very Bad People

“For a time, the princess puts on a happy face. She plans fantastical adventures for her daughters, spending the king and queen’s money on parties and trips and riches that make the bartender frown. But he surrenders. He wants the princess to be happy.”
― Kit Frick, Very Bad People

“Prince—young, handsome, idealistic—meets princess—beautiful, rich, going places. For two years of high school, they are together. Then the prince goes to study agriculture at Cornell and the princess ascends her ivy tower at Yale. For three more years, they defy the odds. They stay together. Love wins.”
― Kit Frick, Very Bad People

“I knew,” my aunt says softly. “Not the whole time. But the year before she died, your mother told me.” She glances at her wife. “I made the decision not to burden Teya with this.”
― Kit Frick, Very Bad People

“Second, the decision to expose Aymée’s collateral was all Brit. She should be the last person tearing another girl down over a relationship with an older guy, but Brit’s vengeful streak won out over any sense of sisterhood or sympathy.”
― Kit Frick, Very Bad People

“I deserved it.” Mave picks up her glasses, slips them back on. “I’d destroyed her relationship, and I hadn’t even been honest about it. I let Danny break the news to her. You may have noticed the lack of photos of Kathy and me in the couple years after I graduated.”
― Kit Frick, Very Bad People

“You fucked this up, Brit. You’re too close to this, and you let that get in the way.” “You bitch.” Brit’s words are like ice.”
― Kit Frick, Very Bad People

“Then new questions bubble up, and once they’re there, I can’t unthink them: Was someone trying to keep my mother silent? Or was it revenge?”
― Kit Frick, Very Bad People

“Story goes, Adam Davenport was a total daddy’s boy. He was this uber-privileged asshole who no one really liked but lots of people sucked up to anyway. People just can’t stay away from wealth and power.”
― Kit Frick, Very Bad People

“This is precisely why Haunt and Rail is essential,” Lucas says. “If we rely on the administration to do the right thing, we get burned. Nothing gets done.” He looks directly at me, and I hold his gaze. Our conversation from the weekend is still fresh in my mind.”
― Kit Frick, Very Bad People

“Being new at Tipton is like picking up a book and starting to read somewhere in the middle. For everyone around me, the story already has a beginning and rising action and well-rounded characters. I’m just lost.”
― Kit Frick, Very Bad People

“Six years later, he lives here, or— he followed me. Did he come to finish what he started? Does he remember me? Am I in danger?”
― Kit Frick, Very Bad People

“That wasn’t your kind of fairy story. You wanted the dazzling ending, fireworks in the sky, the happily ever after.”
― Kit Frick, Very Bad People

“Now, the village is crushing me. It is so small. It has eyes and claws and teeth. There is a fairy tale like that.”
― Kit Frick, Very Bad People

“If our names sound like they were plucked from a fairy tale, it’s because they were. Momma wanted, above all things, to live in a fairy tale.”
― Kit Frick, Very Bad People