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Mindy McGinnis QUOTES

121 " Killing people was easier when the only face I ever saw was Mother’s back then, anyone else was the enemy and shooting at an outline in a scope wasn’t any different than taking down a deer, just in a different shape. "

― Mindy McGinnis , Not a Drop to Drink (Not a Drop to Drink, #1)

122 " It all went the wrong way, like a carefully scripted scene I imagined ahead of time falling apart because nobody else knew their lines. "

― Mindy McGinnis , The Female of the Species

123 " 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. "

― Mindy McGinnis , The Female of the Species

124 " She’s the one most likely to call bullshit on even perfunctory get-togethers, unhappy with the charade of being friends when we aren’t actually anymore. "

― Mindy McGinnis , The Female of the Species

125 " I don't like to come home. Other houses have warmth in them, the lines between the people who live there humming with unspent energy ready to unreel. Conversations from the past still hover in the air, waiting for the threads to be picked up again. The air here is cold, empty to the point of sterility. When I hear my name it's shocking, a word that isn't spoken. Taboo. "

― Mindy McGinnis , The Female of the Species

126 " Little things build up if you live with someone. "

― Mindy McGinnis , The Female of the Species

127 " All the stupid people I know are happy. "

― Mindy McGinnis , This Darkness Mine

128 " A tiny crack of kindness that makes him all the more hateful, because if there's a version of him that feeds birds as winter descends, then there's a decency that he chose to overlook when he did other things. "

― Mindy McGinnis , The Female of the Species

129 " You see it in all animals—the female of the species is more deadly than the male. "

― Mindy McGinnis , The Female of the Species

130 " 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. "

― Mindy McGinnis , The Female of the Species

131 " So what happened?” Mom asks; there’s a tone of resignation, the sound of a parent who has tried really hard for a long time and realizes that the end of the tunnel doesn’t have a light so much as a black hole. "

― Mindy McGinnis , The Female of the Species

132 " What happens next is you’re more likely to be a victim of sexual assault,” he says, and I feel Alex tense beside me. “Girls, one in three of you.” He points right at me, Alex, Sara, Branley, and Lila. “There are five right here, so let’s be generous and say it’s just one. Which one of you will it be?”
From the left a boy yells, “Please say it’s Branley,” followed by a chorus of laughter.
“Let me guess, she’s the hot one, right?” Nolan says, smiling along with them. “Guess what—one of you is the one who’s going to do it.”
That shuts it down, fast.
“It’s a small town,” he goes on. “Ninety percent of rapes are acquaintance rapes—that means you know your attacker, girls. And guys, that means you know the girl you damaged physically, emotionally, and mentally. One in six of you boys is going to be sexually assaulted too, by the way.” test "

― Mindy McGinnis , The Female of the Species

133 " Sometimes I forget for one second and it hurts.
It’s a different kind of pain than the constant, the weight that hangs from my heart. It swings from twine embedded so deeply that my aorta has grown around it. Blood pulses past rope in the chambers of my heart, dragging away tiny fibers until my whole body is suffused and pain is all I am and ever can be. But sometimes it swings just right and there's a moment of suspension when I can't feel it. The rope goes slack and the laws of physics give me one second of relief. I can laugh and smile and feel something else. But, those same laws undo me. And, when it swings back, there's a sharp tug on my heart to remind me that I forgot. "

― Mindy McGinnis , The Female of the Species

134 " They work their discreet types of madness on us, power and pain, and we hold to our truths in the darkness. "

― Mindy McGinnis , A Madness So Discreet

135 " Everyone thinks if you fix a male dog it will lower his aggression, but most of the biters are female. It’s basic instinct to protect their own womb. You see it in all animals—the female of the species is more deadly than the male.” “Except "

― Mindy McGinnis , The Female of the Species

136 " the Girl Who Lived, a hillbilly Harry Potter. "

― Mindy McGinnis , Be Not Far from Me

137 " I’m telling you, Claire. It doesn’t matter. What you were wearing. What you look like. Nothing. Watch the nature channel. Predators go for the easy prey.” I "

― Mindy McGinnis , The Female of the Species

138 " Grief is by nature the most violent of them all. The ancients tore their hair and rent their clothing to express it. Now we keep the dead body in our homes, shaking people’s hands as they pass by to view it and trying to stop ourselves from crying because it’s not socially acceptable. Tell me—which of these mourning practices is least sane? "

― Mindy McGinnis , A Madness So Discreet

139 " It’s easier to like animals than people, and there’s a reason for that. "

― Mindy McGinnis , The Female of the Species

140 " Define success," I say almost to myself.
"I didn't kill someone today," Alex says.
I laugh again. "A-plus babe. "

― Mindy McGinnis , The Female of the Species