Magic, Lies, and Deadly Pies Quotes

“After all, guys are always telling us to smile. Truth is, they should be really nervous when we do.”
― Misha Popp, Magic, Lies, and Deadly Pies

“Like there are these things that matter on a large grand scale, the kind of things Melly cares about, like stopping fascism and curing climate change, and that’s obviously super important, but then there are the little individual things, like a woman who’s getting hit at home or a girl whose rapist gets a free pass for being popular. Do you go for the big sweeping save-the-world changes that will help the most people, or do you chip away at the little problems, fixing one and another and another until you have this huge snowball of good deeds built up?”
― Misha Popp, Magic, Lies, and Deadly Pies

“It might not seem like it when you're in the shit of it, when everything feels like it's falling down around your ears, but at some point you're going to really like where you are and you're gonna look back at the mess and realize it was one of the stepping stones that got you here.”
― Misha Popp, Magic, Lies, and Deadly Pies

“Blood is blood, though. He’s still family.” I shake my head. “No, blood isn’t family. Blood is just a liquid, like water or honey. It’s not special.” “You really think that?” He sounds genuinely surprised. “You don’t? Your uncle is trying to sell out the orchard that’s been in your family for generations,” I remind him. “I never said family was necessarily good,” he says. “Just that it exists.” “Not because of randomly shared DNA, though. It’s more than that. It has to be.”
― Misha Popp, Magic, Lies, and Deadly Pies

“She squeezes my hand to the point of pain but I don't flinch. She could break my bones and I would keep holding on.”
― Misha Popp, Magic, Lies, and Deadly Pies

“It might not seem like it when you're in the shit of it, when everything feels lies it's falling down around your ears, but at some point you're going to really like where you are and you're gonna look back at the mess and realize it was one of the stepping stones that got you here.”
― Misha Popp, Magic, Lies, and Deadly Pies