124 Quotes by Mindy McGinnis

I can call them at any time, invading their lives with a series of numbers, like spinning the combination on their locker and suddenly being in their space. It’s so intensely personal it almost feels profane.

The lamp on the side table illuminates his half-eaten dinner, now decorated with a fat winter fly bogged down in the mashed potatoes. It’s still struggling a little, threadlike legs pushing against gravy.

I am drawn to the water, yet I know it’s not what calls me.

That’s life, little one – lots of little maybes and what ifs all lined up in a row. And if you put your mind to following some of them that never came about, you’ll get lost and not find your way back to the way it really is.

Hiking – much like drinking – is something that sounds more fun to the uninitiated than it actually is.

You chose to stop acknowledging a world that has treated you foully. What’s saner than that?

It’s easier to like animals than people.

Some might think me too harsh. But some men should be marked. I’m fit for that task.

We use the same consonant and vowel sounds but have never said them to each other before, and somehow that makes them all new again.