“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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“Maybe love was lying to yourself.”
― Lauren Kate, quote from Fallen in Love
“Hell’s bells, he’d been cast in a cheesy horror movie.”
― Larissa Ione, quote from Desire Unchained
“Don't lose out on something wonderful because you're scared.”
― C.C. Hunter, quote from Whispers at Moonrise
“And when this intoxication has worn away... when every desire is fulfilled and every language learned- when there are no more distant cities to explore; no classics to be studied; not another coin to be stuffed in to one's coffers- what then? One can have all the comforts of the world, but what use are they if there is no comfort in them?”
― Seth Grahame-Smith, quote from Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
“At the other end of the room, Grandma had the lid up on Larry Lipinski. She was standing one foot on a folding chair, one foot on the edge of the casket, and she was taking pictures with a disposable camera.”
― Janet Evanovich, quote from High Five
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