167 Quotes by Megan Abbott

The world is a fiction the brain constructs.

I don’t really consider any of my novels ‘crime’ novels.

In some animal part of my brain, I guess I thought looking her up might somehow summon her. So I never did. And she came anyway.

Remember this,” she says, glowing, her skin golden and life-marked, “you will have to fight your entire life. And that’s why you’ll always be better. Because you wanted it so much more.

She hadn’t learned, no one had taught her... that the things you want, you never get them. And if you do, they’re not what you thought they’d be. But you’d still do anything to keep them. Because you’d wanted them for so long.

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.

Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt. The.

Maybe the ending was the best part – the only time you saw the beauty in it all.

Things can get pretty rough out there,” he says. “Can’t they? For you girls? You’re all a bunch of warriors, aren’t you? Lionhearted.