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Lauren Groff QUOTES

81 " She always wanted to be the kind of person who could play the "Moonlight" Sonata.

She buries her failure in this, as she buries all her failures, in reading. "

― Lauren Groff , Florida

82 " Men can do that, become more handsome as they grow older. Women just age. "

― Lauren Groff , Fates and Furies

83 " My eyes were closed and I was almost asleep when I said, Tell me. You think there are still good people in the world?

Oh ,yes, he said. Billions. It’s just that the bad ones make so much more noise. "

― Lauren Groff , Florida

84 " She is exhausting to everyone.

She would take a break from herself, too, but she doesn't have that option. "

― Lauren Groff , Florida

85 " Ah," he said. "I didn't say it wasn't complicated. Everything is complicated. The older you get, the more complicated life gets. It's one of those joyful things we have to look forward to, I guess. "

― Lauren Groff , The Monsters of Templeton

86 " I'm fine. I'm fine, he says, and fine, fine repeats in his head as he escapes back into the chill. Around him, a spin of bodies in dark coats, tapping thumbs on pads, pressing phones to heads, settling buds into ear canals, projecting an invisible shield of music as they move through the crowd, digital companionship warmer than the bodies around them. Every soul on the street is sunk within its body. Sometimes Bit imagines that he, alone, bears witness to the world. "

― Lauren Groff , Arcadia

87 " My friends, one last word: I will be scrutinizing the election like a hawk. If I weren't, if the newspapers weren't being vigilant against the corrupt men of the world, we would be lost. Ours wouldn't be a democracy. And let us only hope for the peace of our beloved village that propriety in this election, and all future elections, will be observed. "

― Lauren Groff , The Monsters of Templeton

88 " All things nauseating and deadly are American, apparently.

Well, okay, she can't disagree. "

― Lauren Groff , Florida

89 " There was the other thing, the far worse thing. During the same time she began to write, she left him. He was wrapped up in his work. She came back and he never knew she was gone. "

― Lauren Groff , Fates and Furies

90 " Please. Marriage is made of lies. Kind ones, mostly. Omissions. If you give voice to the things you think every day about your spouse, you'd crush them to paste. She never lied. Just never said. "

― Lauren Groff , Fates and Furies

91 " He longed for something wordless and potent: what? To wear her. He imagined living in her warmth forever. People in his life had fallen away from him one by one like dominoes; every movement pinned her further so that she could not abandon him. [...] They were pressed so close that when they laughed, his laugh rose from her belly, hers from his throat. He kissed her cheekbones, her clavicle, the pale of her wrist with its rootlike blue veins. His terrible hunger he'd thought would be sated was not. The end apparent in the beginning.
'My wife,' he sais. 'Mine.' Perhaps instead of wearing her, he could swallow her whole.
'Oh?' she said. 'Right. Because I'm chattel. Because my royal family traded me for three mules and a bucket of butter.'
[...]
'Nobody belongs to anybody. We've done something bigger. It's new. "

― Lauren Groff , Fates and Furies

92 " Women in this world are vulnerable; only reputation can keep them from being crushed. "

― Lauren Groff , Matrix

93 " Mathilde had always been a fist, in truth. Only with Lotto had she been an open hand. "

― Lauren Groff , Fates and Furies

94 " The only thing I wanted, she says, was not to be a burden. Quick and painless, how I wanted to go.

But the Universe called you back, Astrid says.

For no reason, Hannah says.

You find the reason, Astrid snaps. Finish with the self-pity, and move on. "

― Lauren Groff , Arcadia

95 " Now, don't sigh for envy at my week-end; I am sure it is to be dull, my dear, and you know my horrible shyness and how I loathe such things. If only I had your vivacity and beauty! Alas, what we love in others does not always suit ourselves. I shall get through the weekend by wishing you in my place. "

― Lauren Groff , The Monsters of Templeton

96 " I'd been sent to Girl Scout Camp... I believed for years afterward that tongues should taste like the clovers we'd sucked for the honey at their roots. "

― Lauren Groff , Florida

97 " But it's not just me, you know. The whole world's sad," I said. "It's like a virus. It's going to end badly. Glaciers melting, ozone depleted. Terrorists blowing up buildings, nuclear rods infecting the aqueducts. Influenza hopping from the pigeons to the humans, killing millions. Billions. People rotting in the street. The sun bursting open, shattering us eight minutes later. If not that, starvation. Cannibalism. Freakish mutated babies with eyeballs in their navels. It's a terrible place to bring a child into," I said. "This world. It is terrible. Just terrible. "

― Lauren Groff , The Monsters of Templeton

98 " Great swaths of her life were white space to her husband. What she did not tell him balanced neatly with what she did. Still, there are untruths made of words and untruths made of silences, and Mathilde had only ever lied to Lotto in what she never said. "

― Lauren Groff , Fates and Furies

99 " Paradox of marriage: you can never know someone entirely; you do know someone entirely. "

― Lauren Groff , Fates and Furies

100 " Please. Marriage is made of lies. Kind ones, mostly. Omissions. If you give voice to the things you think every day about your spouse, you’d crush them to paste. She never lied. Just never said. "

― Lauren Groff , Fates and Furies