The Sunset Crowd Quotes

“think you need to stop counting the hours of what could have been, and start living in the here and now.”
― Karin Tanabe, The Sunset Crowd

“They were not the saviors she always thought they were. They were just women, who had not acted like heroes when they could have.”
― Karin Tanabe, The Sunset Crowd

“And you’ll see, when you’re older, that much of your happiness will revolve around who invites you over for cocktails.”
― Karin Tanabe, The Sunset Crowd

“But all the while they’re seething with jealousy that the Star Wars thing is striking gold when it’s only been out a week. I mean, there are giant talking stuffed animals in it with guns and lasers. Robots that look like trash cans. But okay. This is what the people want. Fine.”
― Karin Tanabe, The Sunset Crowd

“Why does anyone lie in this town? She saw a good thing. And she wants to be close to it. But that means that other people need to move farther away.”
― Karin Tanabe, The Sunset Crowd

“Be a good person, but be a big person”
― Karin Tanabe, The Sunset Crowd

“I hadn’t yet learned that teenage girls do far too much apologizing. For breathing, for existing, for inspiring lurid thoughts, for having their own lurid thoughts, for wanting their own lives.”
― Karin Tanabe, The Sunset Crowd

“The East Coast forces sports on their young!”
― Karin Tanabe, The Sunset Crowd

“I suppose when you’re in the highest echelons of beauty, you really are happy when other people look spectacular.”
― Karin Tanabe, The Sunset Crowd

“Why shouldn’t a woman be liberated? Men are lazy, complacent dickheads, because power corrupts them early and they think they should get it all free and easy. Women are the opposite. Usually.”
― Karin Tanabe, The Sunset Crowd

“If women aren’t behind the camera, every picture of a woman will be through the eyes of a man. That can’t be our future.” I nodded. “I know. Even if it’s very fucked up. This world and our place in it.”
― Karin Tanabe, The Sunset Crowd

“Who cared if I flamed out my insides? The world was stacked against women anyway.”
― Karin Tanabe, The Sunset Crowd

“It’s true that there was something wonderful about being a woman who never felt alone but got to live alone.”
― Karin Tanabe, The Sunset Crowd

“Marriage can still be a good thing. Let’s not judge the institution so harshly.”
― Karin Tanabe, The Sunset Crowd

“ready to turn up the charm and have one of those get-to-know-you conversations that women have where they’re sniffing the other out to see if they should lunch together, drink together, or never see each other again.”
― Karin Tanabe, The Sunset Crowd

“I wouldn’t have made it in any other era,” I said honestly. “I would have been drowned by Puritans when I turned fourteen.” “All the good ones would have been.”
― Karin Tanabe, The Sunset Crowd

“Vain men were as appealing as cheap alcohol.”
― Karin Tanabe, The Sunset Crowd

“Champagne always washed out, anyway.”
― Karin Tanabe, The Sunset Crowd