Quotes from Girl in Pieces

“Everyone has that moment I think, the moment when something so momentous happens that it rips your very being into small pieces. And then you have to stop. For a long time, you gather your pieces. And it takes such a very long time, not to fit them back together, but to assemble them in a new way, not necessarily a better way. More, a way you can live with until you know for certain that this piece should go there, and that one there.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, quote from Girl in Pieces

“That's how hearts get broken, you know. When you believe in promises.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, quote from Girl in Pieces

“I remember the stars that night. They were like salt against the sky, like someone spilled the shaker against very dark cloth. That mattered to me, their accidental beauty.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, quote from Girl in Pieces

“+"I think u are having a different sort of heartbreak. Maybe a kind of heartbreak of being in the world when u don’t know how to be.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, quote from Girl in Pieces

“I'm tired and angry at me. For letting myself get smaller and smaller in the hopes that he would notice me more. But how can someone notice you if you keep getting smaller?”
― Kathleen Glasgow, quote from Girl in Pieces

“She's not a cookie, or a book, or a record on a shelf. You can't just play with her and then put her back.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, quote from Girl in Pieces

“You can't break my heart, she cries, breathy and furious. You can't own my soul. What I have, I made, what I have is mine. What I have I made, what I have is mine.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, quote from Girl in Pieces

“People should know about us. Girls who write their pain on their bodies. ~Louisa”
― Kathleen Glasgow, quote from Girl in Pieces

“I just want to feel better. My own body is my deepest enemy. It wants, it wants, it wants and when it does not get, it cries and cries and I punish it. How can you live in fear of your own body?”
― Kathleen Glasgow, quote from Girl in Pieces

“Don't let the cereal eat you. It's only a fucking box of cereal, but it will eat you alive if you let it.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, quote from Girl in Pieces

“...when I look at my arms, I don't think revolutionary. I think sad, and pain, but not revolutionary.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, quote from Girl in Pieces

“Everything and everybody that's busted can be fixed. That's what I think.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, quote from Girl in Pieces

“Each aberration of my skin is a song. Press your mouth against me. You will hear so much singing.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, quote from Girl in Pieces

“Girl listens to radio. Girl finds music. Girl has whole other world.

Girl slips on headphones. World gone.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, quote from Girl in Pieces

“Everyone has that moment, I think, the moment when something so...momentous happens that it rips your very being into small pieces. And then you have to stop. For a long time, you gather your pieces. And it takes such a very long time, not to fit them back together, but to assemble them in a new way, not necessarily a better way. More, a way you can live with until you know for certain that this piece should go there, and that one there.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, quote from Girl in Pieces

“People aren't nice, people aren't nice, you should know that by now.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, quote from Girl in Pieces

“I'm no stranger to fucking up.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, quote from Girl in Pieces

“Dear Ellis, I have something really fucking angelic to tell you.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, quote from Girl in Pieces

“Go be absolutely, positively, fucking angelic.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, quote from Girl in Pieces

“I don't feel sad. For just now, I don't feel scared. I feel, for right now, well, kind of triumphant.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, quote from Girl in Pieces

“Everyone here seems to know exactly what they need, but I leave without a thing.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, quote from Girl in Pieces

“I think you are having a different sort of heartbreak. Maybe a kind of heartbreak of being in the world when you don't know how to be. If that makes any sense?”
― Kathleen Glasgow, quote from Girl in Pieces

“Keep your shit together and stay strong, he whispers in my ear.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, quote from Girl in Pieces

“Mickey holds up the soggy paper. DIE. Don't you die.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, quote from Girl in Pieces

“That's what was in my head in the attic when I took broken glass from my tender kit and began to cut myself into tiny pieces.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, quote from Girl in Pieces

“I blink at myself. I could be a girl, a real girl. I could be a possibility, with Mikey. Couldn't I?”
― Kathleen Glasgow, quote from Girl in Pieces

“I room with Louisa. Louisa is older and her hair is like a red-and-gold noisy ocean down her back. There's so much of it, she can't even keep it in with braids or buns or scrunchies. Her hair smells like strawberries; she smells better than any girl I've ever known. I could breathe her in forever.

My first night here, when she lifted her blouse to change for bed, in the moment before that crazy hair fell over her body like a protective cape, I saw them, all of them, and I sucked my breath in hard.

She said, "Don't be scared, little one."

I wasn't scared. I'd just never seen a girl with skin like mine.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, quote from Girl in Pieces

“I'm so unwhole. I don't know where all the pieces of me are, how to fit them together, how to make them stick. Or if I even can.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, quote from Girl in Pieces

“After he died, my mother was like a crab: she tucked everything inside and left only her shell.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, quote from Girl in Pieces

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