Luckiest Girl Alive Quotes
"The problem is that I’ve been eating like a beast. I have to go ano now if I want to be ready by September fourth."
"I guess I should get a gun then." Halfway through that statement Nell’s blue eyes had lit up with alarm. Too late, neurons had lit a match to the thought and fired the sentence out of her mouth before she could stop it. "Sorry," she’d added, clumsily.
"Well, it’s the place I need it most so I push myself as hard as possible." I patted my tummy, swollen against my extra-small Stella McCartney for Adidas yoga pants.
"No way!" the girl insisted. "You look great."
"I don’t think Mrs. Harrison has ever seen her own nipples," I said. "It would probably be a good anatomy lesson for her."
"I came across Nell like you would a Robert Mapplethorpe at a street art fair, gobsmacked that something so valuable would be lumped in with a bunch of other crap like that."
"I’m participating in the documentary," I volunteered, to show her just how much I didn’t mind it.
"I tried to find your bag!" I said, defensively.
"You’re too pretty to be the last one picked."
"You only have a twenty-three percent chance of getting pregnant."
"You’re on your side here. If you’ve been hurt you need to let someone know."
"It’s not an abortion. If the sperm has already implanted the egg, it won’t do anything."
"I’m so lucky I get to be with them every day."
"I chose it because it was the most extreme. It’s not going to work unless it feels like the worst thing in the world."
"You’re not fooling anyone. Take oysters, for example."
"Is it rape if you can’t remember what happened?"
"You think you’re happy? You think you have anything to be proud of? Ha! Remember this?"
"I’d fight. There was no one I wouldn’t hurt to stay."
"Moving on doesn’t mean you don’t talk about it. Or hurt about it. It’s always going to hurt, I imagine."
"Faith doesn’t mean believing Jesus died for us, and that if I held on to that, I’d get to meet him when I died too. Now it means someone seeing something in you that you don’t, and not giving up until you see it too."
"Growing up, I thought faith was about believing Jesus died for us, and that if I held on to that, I’d get to meet him when I died too."
"Survivors should move on. Should wear white wedding dresses and carry peonies down the aisle and overcome, rather than dwell in a past that can’t be altered."
"Not everyone is flush on the Main Line, but the priorities are certainly different than the kind I’d grown up with. Education, travel, culture—this is what any pennies pinched should be used for."
"It’s like touching a hot stove by accident. The response in your body overwhelming all systems."
"You can’t find a pitch-black room in New York, another reason I love it here—the light from the outside world streaming in at all hours, assuring me there is someone awake, someone who could help me if something bad were to happen."
"For the rest of my life, I would live only in places with hardwood floors."
"But you agree with hamburgers. You just let other people do your dirty work."
"I meant I didn’t agree with hunting for sport, but I didn’t want to argue with him and prolong this little field trip."
"I’m not going to get all gay and shit and tell you what a good friend you are, so fuck off!"
"It’s just, don’t you see? Don’t you get it? You were injured out the gate. And you’re just such a stupid cunt that you couldn’t see it."
"You know, people don’t care about you as much as you think they do."
"He sees you for exactly who you are and accepts you for it."
"Jesus, Ani, don’t do this if this doesn’t make you happy!"
"I’m sorry, Ani. Luke’s a great guy. He doesn’t expect you to be someone you’re not."
"My God, girl, I thought you were one of those crank callers."
"You know what the sick part is? Even though I was dreading Liam’s funeral, I still wanted to look pretty for it."
"I want you to know," Mom said, "that I don’t condone what Liam did. But you have to take responsibility for your part in this too."
"There comes a point where you just can’t be mad at everyone anymore."
"It’s not easy," the police officer admitted. "Just do your best."
"I saw how there was a protection in success, and success was defined by threatening the minion on the other end of a cell phone, expensive pumps terrorizing the city."
"Assholes!" Mom gasped. "I’m not signaling to them."
"I think about that sometimes. Wonder if Liam was so bad. Maybe he just didn’t know what he was doing was wrong."
"It will help the shot if you can scooch in a little closer."
"I’m surprised," Headmaster Mah said, "that TifAni would even want to come back."
"But I needed to build up my loneliness tolerance, was all. The loneliness became like a friend, my constant companion."