167 Quotes by Megan Abbott

You really only learn your place, her mother once said, when you’re left in it.

But the truth is, you can rarely undo things. This is what you realize after one of your parents dies.

Sometimes it felt like parenting amounted to a series of questionable decisions, one after another.

Sexual debut. Sometimes it seemed to Deenie that high school was like a long game of And Then There Were None. Every Monday, another girl’s debut.

They knew each other most deeply through body-warmed sheets and the tangle of half dreams.

Dr. Severin was thinking that the brain was a monstrous and beautiful thing. A ravishing chaos.

I always feel lifted the minute I taste real air. The minute I see the sun-scorched signs, the swaying traffic-lights. The lab is gone. But not tonight, it seems. Tonight all I can think of is Diane Fleming rolling into town, starting fires.

You looked like you knew a thing or two, she told me later. But were ready to learn a lot more.

By telling me, you trapped me,” I say through my teeth. “By telling you,” she whispers, rain still glistening on her, “I was free.