16 Quotes by Alexis Schaitkin

For so long it was all I wanted. The truth! The truth! Good, fine, but for what? With the truth we will do what, become what? And in gaining the truth, what do we lose? It seems to me now that some truths will never be enough to seal the mysteries that precede them. I think in her own way my mother understood this all along – that there is nothing the truth can give you that you cannot give yourself. That in the end, you just have to decide. To live. To continue.

Nobody likes a snob, but everybody likes the discernment that allows for snobbery.

Here’s the thing about women: If the world was only women, there wouldn’t be language at all. They don’t need it.

To mourn a girl with infinite futures was to mourn infinitely.

Don’t you understand? My sister was an innocent, blameless in her horrific fate. And it was all her fault.

She was what all the dead are: whatever the living make them.

Here’s some words of wisdom for you: Don’t ever try to out-talk a woman. They store the right language up so it’s ready to throw down when the time comes.