167 Quotes by Megan Abbott

Like all that you are is the wanting, and the rest of you just burns away?

She had done this thing to me, burdened me with this vile, howling thing. And now it shuddered in me always and I’d felt I might have to live with it forever. I was right.

It’s hard, he told her, when everyone wants it so much but you’re the one who has to do it.

Can I trust you, Addy?” he asks. I say he can. Does anyone ever answer that question with a no?

I haven’t had anything to drink in so long, I figured it’d be best to have something I’d probably never want two of.

It’s enraging, recalling a dozen, a hundred, a thousand times in my life a man telling me to relax, be a team player, stop worrying so much, take it easy and roll with the punches. We’re all on the same team.

It felt like you could hurt her just by looking at her, or you could never hurt her at all.

I didn’t grow up feeling smart and special, the world my oyster, born with a silver shucker in my hand. No one works harder than you, that’s the way Zell and Juwon liked to put it. Everything I have is because I was the dutiful worker bee or because I have no other things to distract me, like girlfriends or wives, like mewling kids or family dogs or a love of weekend brunches and fantasy football, or a single, sad hobby, like solitaire or the Sunday jumble. I have this.

You’re going to look your girl straight in the eye and say, Baby your mom rode to the rafters. Your mom lifted three girls in her hand, grinning all the way, she says, our voices rising to a baying now, all together. Your mom build pyramids and flew high in the sky, and back in Sutton Grove, they’re still talking about the wonders they saw that night, still talking about how they watched us all reach to the heavens.