168 Quotes by Julianna Baggott

When you’re in the world looking for only one thing, you find it or it finds you. The obsession can be mutual.

One of the reasons I write in different genres is that I get to have the feeling – even fleetingly – that I’m not just writing like Baggott again. I can escape myself.

I’ve left the Church – for many reasons that I’ve written about publicly – but it’s still a large part of my identity, and I still have my faith, if not my Church.

All this time, you’ve been lying to me!

I didn’t know it until the end. All stories worth telling are love stories.

I didn’t start writing so that I could more deeply know myself. I was bored of myself, my life, my childhood, my hometown. I started writing as a way to know others, to get away from myself.

Here, falling in love can be an event, a proclamation without acknowledging that everyone you love could die an awful death, that loving someone is an acceptance of impending loss.

I don’t have a favorite. I need different genres at different times.

I believe we’re brutes, but then, miraculously, there are those among us who stand up against that brutishness and remind us of the goodness we’re capable of.