20 Quotes by Karen M. McManus

I wish he'd listen, because if anyone knows how badly you can screw up your life when you decide you're not good enough, it's me.

I hate department stores. They're too bright, too loud, and too crammed full of junk that nobody needs. Whenever I'm forced to spend time in one I start thinking about how consumer culture is just one long, expensive, planet-killing distraction from the fact that we're all going to die eventually.

You have a very interesting look. Where are you from?'Ugh. That's marginally better than the What are you? question I get sometimes, but still gross. 'New York,' I say pointedly. 'You?''I mean originally,' he clarifies, and that's it. I'm done.'New York,' I repeat, and stand up from my stool.

How do you make that choice?" I ask almost to myself. "Between what you need and what you want?" I feel like my sister's going through her own version of that. Kris's eyes are on Cooper, too. "You hope they become the same thing, I guess.

If I'm not thinking about one shit storm, I have to think about another.

My sisters treated me like a living doll for years, carrying me around so much that I didn’t bother learning to walk until I was almost two.

People like to think they're open-minded, but if you toss a tired gender stereotype on their path they'll run with it every time.

to err is human

There are some things you can't undo no matter how good your intentions are.