“Because she was solid gold, fourteen-carat, barely burnished despite twenty years of hard molling. But beneath it, I knew, beneath that gold and stardust, she was all grit and sharp teeth gnashing, head twisting, talons out, tearing flesh. She was all open mouth, tunneling into an awful nothing.”
― Megan Abbott, quote from Queenpin
“You have to decide who you are, little girl, she told me once. Once you know that, everyone else will too.”
― Megan Abbott, quote from Queenpin
“If you didn't feel it on your body long after he'd left, was it really worth laying for him? I wanted to feel that.”
― Megan Abbott, quote from Queenpin
“time to put on your miner's hat and headed toward the bright light.”
― Megan Abbott, quote from Queenpin
“Then I thought maybe she did know but didn’t want to look at it. Maybe she did know but there’s all kinds of lies you tell yourself when you want to.”
― Megan Abbott, quote from Queenpin
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“I never use the words HUMANIST or HUMANITARIAN, as it seems to me that to be human is to be capable of the most heinous crimes in nature.”
― Gregory Maguire, quote from Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
“Maybe it didn’t seem like a big deal to you Zach. But now, I hope you understand. My world was collapsing. I needed those notes. I needed any hope those notes might have offered. And you? You took that hope away. You decided I didn’t deserve to have it. ”
― Jay Asher, quote from Thirteen Reasons Why
“I've lost a hand, a father, a son, a sister, and a lover, and soon enough I will lose a brother. And yet they keep telling me House Lannister won this war.”
― George R.R. Martin, quote from A Storm of Swords
“Oh yes. Draw your hem back from my mud, little sister.”
― Philippa Gregory, quote from The Other Boleyn Girl
“So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, quote from Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
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