Mary Quotes

“Abuse is its own kind of reincarnation, isn’t it? We become the ones who made us.”
― Nat Cassidy, Mary: An Awakening of Terror

“If you knew how much anger I had in me you’d say Thank God she’s not a man She might destroy millions Thank God the only person she has the power to destroy Is herself”
― Nat Cassidy, Mary: An Awakening of Terror

“For all her grumbling, she actually loves being a woman, pains and all. She just wishes she’d been born into a world that let those pains earn a little goddamn space.”
― Nat Cassidy, Mary: An Awakening of Terror

“Boys get to keep that confidence [as they age], I think; girls have to give it back like it never really belonged to them.”
― Nat Cassidy, Mary

“But, more than that, my mom knew the value of horror as a genre. She knew there were distinct benefits to be gained by spending time with our fears, getting to know them personally.”
― Nat Cassidy, Mary: An Awakening of Terror

“Who am I? I am just a story written in present tense. We all are. We are never finished.”
― Nat Cassidy, Mary: An Awakening of Terror

“Besides, you know another word for unique? Crazy. I hate that word. As far as I’m concerned, it’s the worst word you can call a woman. No other C-word comes close.”
― Nat Cassidy, Mary: An Awakening of Terror

“When I was a little girl my uncle
Was a veterinarian
And I was a little girl who loved animals
I had a cat and a dog

And once I asked my uncle (who was a veterinarian)
Why does my dog love belly rubs
But they make my cat attack?
I showed him scratches up and down my arms.

He said the thing about cats you have to understand Is they are predator and prey
They can hunt and pounce and kill
But they’re small and light and probably
Delicious
So they take some things very very seriously

I was a little girl when he said this
But when I became a woman in this world
I understood what he meant.”
― Nat Cassidy , Mary

“It’s always the quiet ones,” the cliché goes. And like many clichés, there’s some truth to it. But sometimes I wonder: what comes first? Do those “quiet ones” become capable of committing an atrocity because they’re shunned? Or are they shunned because there’s already a sense of what they’re capable of? —Special Agent Peter Arliss, In the Dark with the Devil: One Heroic FBI Agent’s Ground Zero Account of the Arroyo Easter Massacre”
― Nat Cassidy, Mary: An Awakening of Terror

“Because the past is like the moon, isn’t it? It’s always there, but it shifts, it’s never the same when you revisit it.”
― Nat Cassidy, Mary: An Awakening of Terror

“The real curse of womanhood,” I tell them as I shrug off my winter coat and snow-crusted boots, still winded from the three-story walk-up, “is that we never get to forget we have a body. And I don’t just mean because we have to look or move or smell a certain way. I mean, biologically. We’re so tied to these stupid, fleshy things.”
― Nat Cassidy, Mary: An Awakening of Terror

“Just because it’s in your head doesn’t mean it’s not real,”
― Nat Cassidy, Mary: An Awakening of Terror

“Like the world had just … moved on without me.”
― Nat Cassidy, Mary: An Awakening of Terror

“So much misery in the world just to give a few cruel men a quick spurt.”
― Nat Cassidy, Mary

“The only way to prove you haven’t served your use is to endeavor to stay as useful as possible, even to a system that hates you.”
― Nat Cassidy, Mary: An Awakening of Terror

“Memory is a mansion, and dreams are the spaces between its walls”
― Nat Cassidy, Mary

“dumb as a hairnet full of diarrhea.”
― Nat Cassidy, Mary: An Awakening of Terror

“She has all the confidence a deadly thing should.”
― Nat Cassidy, Mary: An Awakening of Terror

“I almost add, Men like you have taught me I’m so unimportant my whole life that sometimes even I don’t try to understand what I do.”
― Nat Cassidy, Mary: An Awakening of Terror

“because that’s what being a woman is, being too much for definitions and being defined anyway, out of fear, and my God, will we be fearless!”
― Nat Cassidy, Mary: An Awakening of Terror

“It was not despair, but it seemed to her as if life were passing by, leaving its promises broken and unfulfilled.”
― Nat Cassidy, Mary: An Awakening of Terror

“Most canned laughter on sitcoms is made up of dead people. I forget where I learned that. The sound cues were recorded decades and decades ago. Most everyone in that audience would be dead by now. But they're still laughing at the antics of the living. Isn't life a funny thing? Ghosts must find us hilarious.”
― Nat Cassidy, Mary

“Who knew the hicks and rubes in this town would make him king as long as he gave them permission to blow off a little steam. That’s my legacy. You ask me if I’m a real doctor? If the Cross House is a real hospital? It is, but fuck all that. What you really tried to mess with? Is a king.”
― Nat Cassidy, Mary: An Awakening of Terror

“Just to be seen. Just to be noticed. When, if ever, will it be your turn?”
― Nat Cassidy, Mary: An Awakening of Terror

“Yeah, I keep a roll of hundreds up my snatch while I sleep; it’s good for my lower back.”
― Nat Cassidy, Mary: An Awakening of Terror

“I ain’t gonna spend my final hours on my knees sucking dick.”
― Nat Cassidy, Mary: An Awakening of Terror

“Someone is laughing, and it’s only when more air whoops into my lungs that I realize it’s me. This is suddenly the funniest thing that’s ever happened to me, tackling a stranger in the moonlight.”
― Nat Cassidy, Mary: An Awakening of Terror

“They think they’re all King Shit of Fart Mountain. I wouldn’t be surprised if their family tree was a straight line.”
― Nat Cassidy, Mary

“Getting old is indignity upon indignity—a race to obsolescence between body and mind.”
― Nat Cassidy, Mary: An Awakening of Terror

“Because life is all about cycles. And life, with its deadly surprises and unassuming horrors, with its mysteries and miseries, just goes on and on and”
― Nat Cassidy, Mary: An Awakening of Terror