Good Girl Quotes

“So many people are so confident they know what’s going to happen, but nobody can really know.”
― Anna Fitzpatrick, Good Girl

“She believed what she believed because her parents believed it, but parents are just human like the rest of us.”
― Anna Fitzpatrick, Good Girl

“And I keep thinking, if I just find the right person, they can help me spin all these plates and I won’t have to do it alone, but then of course every new person comes along with their own plates, and their own method of spinning them, and sometimes they’re really good at it, sometimes they can help you spin yours, and sometimes their plate-spinning methods are just incompatible with yours, but mostly everyone is trying to figure out how to spin the plates they’ve been given.”
― Anna Fitzpatrick, Good Girl

“Sometimes being an adult feels like spinning plates, where you have to keep everything going at once to ensure that you are both keeping yourself alive and keeping a balanced life—to eat, to sleep, to work, to learn, to fuck—and then, while you’re working on all that, you also have to figure out how to be a good person.”
― Anna Fitzpatrick, Good Girl

“Were the lights in the Gap always this bright? Do they turn them up in America?”
― Anna Fitzpatrick, Good Girl

“I have once again tangled myself up in expectations I’ve invented for myself, a test I’ve failed with nobody keeping score.”
― Anna Fitzpatrick, Good Girl

“you’re living proof that grownups don’t have to be boring.”
― Anna Fitzpatrick, Good Girl

“I wonder if everyone is secretly kinky or if I just have instincts for finding people like me. Either way, it’s exactly what I want right now.”
― Anna Fitzpatrick, Good Girl

“You don’t kill time. Haven’t you read the most important book ever, The Phantom Tollbooth? Time is meant to be savoured and experienced”
― Anna Fitzpatrick, Good Girl

“as I look out the window, the sky has an entirely different hue than it does back home, like a painting God did on acid.”
― Anna Fitzpatrick, Good Girl

“You saw the parts of myself I was afraid of the most. And then you disappeared.”
― Anna Fitzpatrick, Good Girl

“What if the pop songs and Hollywood films and other heterosexual propaganda were secretly right all along, and I am supposed to be constantly striving towards these moments of looking and being utterly fuckable for the right person, that this is the only way to ever feel loved or safe or at peace with who I am?”
― Anna Fitzpatrick, Good Girl

“Don’t let your need to overthink everything stop you from having a good time.”
― Anna Fitzpatrick, Good Girl

“I’m just saying, maybe thinking of every negative interaction with a male as traumatic isn’t necessarily as helpful to the girl-power cause as some of your peers think it is. We’re not all victims, you know.”
― Anna Fitzpatrick, Good Girl

“Not even five minutes later, my body is heaving in orgasm. Everything bad I’ve ever felt in the history of the universe goes away as my body fills with lightness and glitter.”
― Anna Fitzpatrick, Good Girl

“The world is wide, wide, wide and I am young, young, young, and we’re all going to live forever,’” I say, flopping on the couch. “Did you just make that up?” she asks. “That’s Elaine Dundy, The Dud Avocado”
― Anna Fitzpatrick, Good Girl

“Bad Behavior by Mary Gaitskill.”
― Anna Fitzpatrick, Good Girl

“What star did you say that was?” I ask the guide. “That’s Saturn,” he answers. “That’s Saturn?” I turn to look at him incredulously, then back into the telescope. “That’s Saturn. Saturn with the rings, Saturn the planet, Saturn the god, everything Saturn is, Saturn’s just right there?” “Please keep the line moving. A lot of people want to see Saturn.”
― Anna Fitzpatrick, Good Girl

“You know, it’s actually my anniversary with Ryan tomorrow,” she says. “The first time in years I’ll have been alone on this date.” “Yeah, but you’re not alone. Look at that city. Look at how big it is. How can anybody be alone here?”
― Anna Fitzpatrick, Good Girl

“I shake my head. If I don’t pursue talking to Lois, then this was for nothing. I’ve wasted everyone’s time. I am a fraud. If I do try to talk to Lois, I risk confronting a woman for a project I’m not even sure the scope of, and she’ll know I’m a fraud. I have once again tangled myself up in expectations I’ve invented for myself, a test I’ve failed with nobody keeping score.”
― Anna Fitzpatrick, Good Girl

“open my notebook with my list of questions, but before I have the chance to ask him, he spins off into a monologue. “You probably want to know about all the celebrities,” he says. “Let me tell you. I started my career at a talent agency, fresh outta college. Gave me a lot of contacts. The stories I could tell you about the famous people I met, Lisa, you wouldn’t believe it.”
― Anna Fitzpatrick, Good Girl

“Was Ryan supportive?” “Ryan doesn’t know,” she says. She pulls a bottle of normal Advil out of her bag and fidgets with the childproof cap. “I told him I had food poisoning and really bad period cramps. He was gone for most of it but brought me home a ginger ale after work.” I imagine Sasha, weak, sick, and bleeding in bed, and all I want is to be able to go back in time and take care of her.”
― Anna Fitzpatrick, Good Girl

“it’s this universally agreed-upon truth that every way in which we try to make living a little more bearable is just another form of labour.”
― Anna Fitzpatrick, Good Girl