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21 " 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. "
― Megan Abbott , You Will Know Me
22 " ...Devon wore the face of a stone Artemis. "
23 " You never think your life will be that big. Just "
24 " There is something bad here, growing. Day and night I watch it. Growing. —Sophocles, Electra "
25 " Because there’s a hundred ways sex can ruin you but there’s no end to the ways love can. Walking "
26 " You really only learn your place, her mother once said, when you're left in it. "
27 " As Katie moved through the rooms, everything reminded her of everything: "
28 " Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt. The "
29 " 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. "
30 " To be capable of shutting the world out, even death itself, and surrendering to the body, trusting in its powers, its secrets. No feeling but this. No feeling "
31 " It’s hard, he told her, when everyone wants it so much but you’re the one who has to do it. "
32 " You really only learn your place, her mother once said, when you’re left in it. "
33 " There's a hundred ways sex can ruin you, but there's no end to the ways love can. "
34 " Remember that kind of wanting? That kind that’s just for yourself? And you don’t even have to feel guilty about it? You wouldn’t know you should.” Katie "