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1 " ...like my own granddad used to say, if you get down to the nub of it, people don't change.That's not true, Katie thought. Not at all. Everyone changed, all the time. That was what was so hard. "
― Megan Abbott , You Will Know Me
2 " ...there's a hundred ways sex can ruin you but there's no end to the ways love can. "
3 " This sensible, sensible girl. A girl who knew how to protect herself. Never a daredevil, never stunting without a safety mat, without spotters. A girl for whom instability was the ultimate enemy. Who’d never known divorce or slamming doors or slamming fists. A girl whose home was a peaceful sanctum, even the basement padded. A life that had to be made safe because of the risks she put her body through. She was the most dangerous thing in her own life. Her body, the only dangerous thing. "
4 " That’s what parenthood was about, wasn’t it? Slowly understanding your child less and less until she wasn’t yours anymore but herself. "
5 " She hadn't learned, no one had taught her ... that 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. "
6 " Because there's a hundred ways sex can ruin you but there's no end to the ways love can. "
7 " I was so mad when I was younger," she said. "And then you grow up and think you're not that girl anymore. The girl you were at fifteen, sixteen. Angry and nasty. Hungry for love—""—I guess some girls are like that," Katie said, cooly."But the thing is, you're always that girl," Hailey said, stepping out of the car. "She never goes away. She's inside you all the time. That girl is forever. "
8 " They knew each other most deeply through body-warmed sheets and the tangle of half dreams. "
9 " Never make eye contact with a wolf. The wolf will take it as a challenge. "
10 " Being a girl is so hard, Katie thought. And it only gets harder. The "
11 " We never know, none of us, what love'll do to us. "
12 " that 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. "
13 " The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. "
14 " That was what gymnastics did, though. It aged girls and kept them young forever at the same time. And "
15 " The pause that followed felt very important. It was one of those moments in a marriage when you have to make a critical decision with alarming speed and the consequences could last a long time, even forever. "
16 " About Devon, about the lonesomeness of her daughter’s life, about— "
17 " When you realize, you have no idea what's going on in your kid's head? One morning, you wake up and there's this alien in your house. They look like your kid, sound a little like them, but they are not your kid. They're something else that you don't know. "
18 " So many things you never think you'll do until you do them. "
19 " Whenever I doubted myself, my dad would say, ‘Grab that dream by the hands, Gwennie. Clutch until the knuckles go white.’” “Whose dream?” “It doesn’t matter whose dream it is,” she said. “Just that it’s a dream. "
20 " When she returned, there was Coach T. spinning "
