167 Quotes by Megan Abbott

I think it was Freud who said that we’re all arrested at a certain age. For me, it was always 13.

When you have nothing inside you, you feel everything more, and feel you can control it all.

My head is so full of plans that it seems aflame.

When she returned, there was Coach T. spinning.

That’s what parenthood was about, wasn’t it? Slowly understanding your child less and less until she wasn’t yours anymore but herself.

My mom always says, you don’t have a self until you have a secret.

Because the bad things you do become part of you, literally. This is no metaphor. They become part of you on a cellular level, in the blood.

That she was both fearless and fragile and could be hurt badly in ways he could not fix.

The fear all men have that there’s something inside us that shifts, and turns. A living thing, once dormant, stirring now, and filled with rage.