megan abbott | book quote starters
feel free to change pronouns as preferred. warnings for mentions of death.
a girl needs something to kill all that time.
there’s something dangerous about the boredom of teenage girls.
love is a kind of killing. don’t you know that?
it was something. don’t say it wasn’t.
people will always try to scare you into things. scare you away from things. scare you into not wanting things you can’t help wanting.
this is my body, and i can make it do things. i can make it spin, flip, fly.
you don’t look like anybody at all.
we’re all wanting things we don’t understand. things we can’t even name.
does anyone ever answer that question with a no?
i know what that’s like. the way you can be saved without ever knowing you were in trouble.
i let them see i’m not anything, least of all what i am.
when you have nothing inside you, you feel everything more, and feel you can control all of it.
did you ever look out in that dark and fucked-up world out there and think, how do i let my daughter out into that? and how do i stop her?
bad things happen and then they’re over, but where do they go?
the things you want, you never get them. and if you do, they’re not what you thought they’d be. but you’d still do anything to keep them. because you’d wanted them for so long.
but the thing is, you’re always that girl. she never goes away. she’s inside you all the time. that girl is forever.
so many things you never think you’ll do until you do them.
it doesn’t matter whose dream it is, just that it’s a dream.
you have to decide who you are, little girl. once you know that, everyone else will too.
there wasn’t much to know. now there’s less.
it’s just nature. put animals in a small, closed space, and the one with the sharpest nails, the pointiest teeth wins.
it’s best never to let them see your teeth.
when you get away with something it’s yours only, forever. heavy and irremediable.
you don’t have a self until you have a secret.