167 Quotes by Megan Abbott

I picture him always like he’s looking at us through glass – windshields, sliding patio doors.

Many of these men, and the women too, sometimes even more so, would like to use your heart against you,” she says. “They think it’s a ticking time bomb in your chest, waiting to explode.” “Maybe it is,” Diane blurts out. I look at her. Severin smiles. “Maybe that’s our strength.

To be capable of shutting the world out, even death itself, and surrendering to the body, trusting in its powers, its secrets. No feeling but this. No feeling.

Did you ever see yourself times ten in another person and want to cover your eyes?

I can’t deny that I desired her in that moment. Anyone would have.

The way men touch you is so different from how boys do. Like they know all the handles and levers. Which felt so unfair, really.

The place was hissing with stories told behind hands as she walked into the place.

I will read anything at all by Kate Atkinson, Daniel Woodrell, and William Kennedy, who are all fearless.

I'm always surprised at the negative response to the women in my books who are openly ambitious or experience aggression.