37 Quotes by Danielle Evans

This book is, among many other things, about grief and loss, and about women unwilling to diminish their desires to live full and complex lives.

We were what we had in life, I thought, and I was not sad about it or apologetic for its corniness.

I was certain it would indeed be charming, but the Upper Midwest made me moody; people made me feel like I was being asked to speak a language I'd never learned and in which I was constantly misunderstood.

A white man walks into a room.' While everyone waited for the punch line, I excused myself and headed to the porch. 'That's it,' I called behind me. 'That's the whole joke. Everything else just disappears.

It was easy to be somebody else when no one cared who you were in the first place.

You know, you’re too pretty for me to leave you on the couch like that,” he said, pulling me toward him. I didn’t know that, but I did understand then that there was no such thing as safe, only safer; that this, if it didn’t happen now, would happen later but not better.

She wondered sometimes if it wasn’t all pretense – if, when she shut her eyes and wished restitution upon the whole wounded parade of humanity, she wasn’t really wishing away the world that created war and illness so that she might have a world in which there was room to feel sorry for herself.

She thought the insistence on victims without wrongdoers was at the base of the whole American problem, the lie that supported all the others.

But what did it matter what she deserved, faced with the hilarity of one more person telling her glibly that better was out there when she was begging for mediocrity and couldn’t have that?