Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home Quotes
"It's lonelier here than I thought, and I did think it would be lonely."
"I live on the top floor of 995 Fifth Avenue."
"The knocking is louder and more insistent than the standard knock-knock-knock a regular person would make."
"It's been nearly a year. Not exactly, but almost."
"It's going to be a hard couple of weeks for you."
"I couldn't see properly, I couldn't breathe."
"Dying, probably just metaphorically, but maybe also literally?"
"Public fascination for Magnolia has always been a private burden."
"I don't know if it was shittier of me or him."
"Are you ready to tell me what happened with Lover-Boy?"
"People can be quite cruel to beautiful things. For no real reason at all."
"What the fuck, Bridget? Are you a fucking botanist in your spare time now?"
"It's like that part in that film, with the love fern? And it dies."
"I, metaphorically, dropped the — metaphorical — plant of our love into the desert."
"I won't. And I hate him and, actually, our love is dead."
"I really was the glue around here, wasn't I?"
"Doesn't she go mental when the love fern dies?"
"I am simply thrilled to be here celebrating a love birthed in the canal of infidelity."
"Can we meet up before you go back? Have a chat?"
"And it’s not like you’re going to see her again…"
"She’s a difficult person to be on thin ice with."
"She’s been one of my best friends since I was what — fifteen?"
"Imagine London if it was Magnolia ruling with an iron fist."
"I wouldn’t be banking on you two being best friends, Jords."
"I’m sorry to say you didn’t fare particularly well during the vagina monologues."
"What’s in a Milano Torino? Have you had one?"
"It’s bittersweet. I personally think it’s yuck."
"You always wanted me to diversify my wardrobe."
"You could probably be better if you wanted to be."
"Is it horrible or miraculous that you can feel that feeling so many times throughout your life? Miraculous you survive, horrible you live to feel the world slipping out from under you again."
"You must never read the comment section of a photograph you post of yourself and a boy who isn’t the boy the world wants you to be with."
"I can’t control how you see me, but I can control how I will be seen. And you will only ever see me very put together. You don’t need to know about the parts of me that aren’t."
"You don’t need to know about the parts of me that aren’t."
"You could find me a time machine and go backwards in it and stop your stupid best friend from being stupid infinity times and stop yourself from being a trickster liar."
"Made better!" He shakes his head. "Made so much better. Your bags are… better. Healthier! For me. Maybe not on the cows—"
"I’ll Be Seeing You." I’m just looking at her.
"It wasn’t planned—" I give her a little nod. "I was seventeen nearly eighteen. She was sixteen. We were going to keep it. We lost it."
"Our first date," Parks says, just looking at me. "It was at my grandparents’ anniversary. We danced to Billie Holiday."
"Just because he's fucking shit up, doesn't mean he doesn't want you."
"Both of them? Both people I loved have gotten tattoos of me dead on them? What’s the matter with them? And perhaps more pressingly, what’s the matter with me?"
"It felt like if I responded to him, it would crack open a door I could barely keep shut as it was."
"Those green eyes of his cloud over. I’ve struck a nerve. He’s never seen a mark on my body he didn’t put there."
"I don’t know what we are. Haven’t for a long time."
"I want her to be everywhere. Wherever I am I want her there."
"There’s a hole in the bottom of the cup where I broke her and all the ways I want her fall through it."
"We’re something. I’m something to her, she’s something to me."
"You and I, we’re forever waiting for green. It’s always the red man."
"I know what I want to be doing. Her and me in the lift — we’ve done it before. My hands on her hair and up her dress."
"I laugh. We looked forever for that fucking necklace when she lost it in a club in Greece when she was seventeen. Not because it was expensive but because I gave it to her."
"Everything's old and all of it's new. Before we used to smother our silences with our bodies. Now we use them to speak all these fucking words we'll never say."
"I don't know how to unhurt her how I did, I don't know if I'll ever know."
"But it's quite hard when you don't trust each other."
"I love fighting with her. Love everything with her, actually. Sleeping, showering, reading, driving. But fighting? That's kind of our sweet spot these days."
"What if I get to the end and it turns out that actually, there was no such thing as good enough for Magnolia all along, so why try?"
"There’s no one in this world that’s worth Magnolia Parks sitting on the floor of a club bathroom."
"Everyone wants to be in her good books. Don’t know why or how she does it, but if you make her feel sad or shitty, even if she deserves it, somehow you always manage to feel like a fucking knob."
"You heard her. She’s going to be an expensive fuck, I can tell already—"
"We love a detour, me and Parks. And she just swerved us right off the fucking road."
"Never cared that he and Julian were close til thirty minutes ago. Now I’m fucking pissed."
"Leave her alone? Never. I won’t ever leave her alone."
"How do you imagine a gang lord’s bedroom? I can’t say I’d ever given it much thought til I found myself in one."
"There’s just this feeling you get from being by him that’s not like anything else in the world."
"Back then his room was more of a bachelor pad. Game consoles. I think there was a candy bar vending machine? Definitely a condom vending machine, I remember that."
"But do you know what Daisy doesn’t like? Me."
"She doesn’t like me. I don’t know whether that’s a Julian thing or a Christian thing, but her thinly-veiled distaste for me is now my raison d’être."
"There’s a huge gravity about him that pulls you in and you lose time."
"That’s what her eyes tell me as she sinks it in one go and then flags down the server. 'Another, please.'"
"I know what you’re thinking — Christian Grey’s Red Room. But you would be incorrect."
"But Tiges— About as subtle as a brick in the face, you are."
"You’re out here looking for drama. I’m just wondering why."
"Just when I think you’re about to swing left, you swing… left."
"Because you like it, and for some reason it makes you feel good when you order different breakfast meals."
"Because they’re not called ‘folded eggs’ — they’re called scrambled eggs."
"It’s important to remind myself that how Julian makes me feel — that it’s not real."
"Loving BJ as much as I do, it makes me feel weak and stupid."
"It’s quite a horrible feeling, like he used me how he wanted me, had his fill and threw me away."
"We used to do it in the little cupboard under the stairs at Varley."
"I need to call it with Jordan before I start it up with Parks."
"I’m always thinking about him and I want to know what he thinks, I want to know what he wants."
"In another life I reckon I could have loved you."
"I’m in love with a fucking emotional terrorist."
"I can’t think of anything I wouldn’t do to be alone with her for five minutes."
"All pants are to stay on all bodies at all times, thank you very much."
"He’s one of Jonah’s good friends. Does he abide by all rules all of the time? No. But—"
"I’d rather not be careful and not be alone than be careful and have to watch BJ with the girl he picked over me."
"You think I can’t see it on your face, how you’re looking at me?"
"People who love each other hurt each other all the time."
"Do you think I can’t love you and be angry at you in the same breath?"
"You’ve got that thing about you that makes you want to be different or better."
"Do you know how rare it is to learn something new about someone you’ve known for twenty years?"
"Like the way snow falls, quiet without you knowing, and then you look behind you and your entire backyard, everything you thought you knew, is blanketed all white."
"Can't tell whether it's big balls or a lack of awareness, but it makes me like him a bit either way."
"You… are the least ineffectual thing in my life."
"We could call it making up for lost time because we’ve lost a lot of it but I’ve never stopped looking at her."
"That face covers them all. His cool eyes are like a cold compress on my busy, curiously masochistic mind."
"You left because I couldn’t look at you when I found out the whole truth."
"You’re not the only one here whose trust has been broken, Magnolia."
"You’re the worst, Parks. And I love you — and I will always love you — but fuck you for that."
"I’ve never stopped loving him. I might be a runner but I have always loved him."
"Call me old fashioned, I’m just one of those girls who likes their boyfriends to trust them."