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Last Night at the Telegraph Club QUOTES

Last Night at the Telegraph Club QUOTES

1 " The hurt felt real - much more real than the entire afternoon of staying silent. So she lay on the hard wooden floor between her brothers' beds and let that ache fill her. "

― Malinda Lo , Last Night at the Telegraph Club

2 " As if summer had bloomed inside the club and wrapped her in its lazy heat "

― Malinda Lo , Last Night at the Telegraph Club

3 " She wondered if Kath could sense her, sitting on this train as it took her away. Perhaps it was possible, if she closed her eyes and sent out her thoughts along the steel track like a message along a telephone wire. I love you. I love you. The train swayed gently beneath her, and she leaned against the window to feel the cool glass against her cheek, and she was sure that Kath had heard her, she was sure. "

― Malinda Lo , Last Night at the Telegraph Club

4 " They had hugged each other quickly, and Lily realized then and there that they'd never be able to kiss goodbye in public. (A tightening in her chest as she reluctantly turned away.) "

― Malinda Lo , Last Night at the Telegraph Club

5 " Haven’t you ever wondered what it would be like to have nothing keeping you attached to the ground? "

― Malinda Lo , Last Night at the Telegraph Club

6 " She’s having a hard time right now because you’re not what she expected. But we’re never what our parents expected. They have to learn that lesson. "

― Malinda Lo , Last Night at the Telegraph Club

7 " Perhaps that was the most perverse part of this: the inside-outness of everything, as if denial would make it go away, when it only made the pain in her chest tighten, when it only made her emotions clearer. "

― Malinda Lo , Last Night at the Telegraph Club

8 " Are you like the girls in the book too? Because I think I am. "

― Malinda Lo , Last Night at the Telegraph Club

9 " She wondered where Kath was. She wondered if Kath could sense her, sitting here on this train as it took her away. Perhaps it was possible, if she closed her eyes and sent out her thoughts along the steel track like a message along a telegraph wire.

I love you. I love you.

The train swayed gently beneath her, and she leaned against the window to feel the cool glass against her cheek, and she was sure that Kath had heard her, she was sure. "

― Malinda Lo , Last Night at the Telegraph Club

10 " Here was her mother sitting down across from her, reaching for her hands and chafing them as if she were frozen. She felt the rub of her mother’s wedding ring against her skin, and her mother’s face swam into focus, her brown eyes full of the sharp worry of love, and Lily thought, You will never look at me like this again. "

― Malinda Lo , Last Night at the Telegraph Club

11 " How am I supposed to know?” she asked instead. “What’s it supposed to be like?”

Lana and Claire traded tiny smiles, and Claire asked gently, “What’s what supposed to be like?”

Lily slumped back against the sofa, feeling boneless and muddled. “Falling in love, I guess.”

“You’ll know,” Claire said. “It’s unmistakable.”

(How she could recognize Kath at the other end of a crowded Galileo hallway by the way she walked.)

“It’s like . . . well, it’s like falling,” Lana said. “Falling, or floating, or sinking.”

(Every time they kissed.)

“You won’t know which way is up.”

“It’s like having a fever.”

(The way the world seemed to narrow down to the tips of Kath’s fingers.)

“It’s like being drunk—drunk for days. "

― Malinda Lo , Last Night at the Telegraph Club

12 " It wasn’t like chocolate, Lily thought. It was like finding water after a drought. She couldn’t drink enough, and her thirst made her ashamed, and the shame made her angry. "

― Malinda Lo , Last Night at the Telegraph Club

13 " Now she was confused, as if she’d been reading a book that had several pages removed, but hadn’t realized the pages were gone until this moment. "

― Malinda Lo , Last Night at the Telegraph Club

14 " The word felt dangerous, and also powerful, as if uttering it would summon someone or something "

― Malinda Lo , Last Night at the Telegraph Club

15 " An unfamiliar emotion swelled inside her at this image. A strangely sharp pang for a place she had never visited. For a people she resembled but did not know. "

― Malinda Lo , Last Night at the Telegraph Club

16 " She knew that what she had read in Strange Season was not only scandalous, it was perverse. She should feel dirtied by reading it; she should feel guilty for being thrilled by it. The problem was, she didn’t. She felt as if she had finally cracked the last part of a code she had been puzzling over for so long that she couldn’t remember when she had started deciphering it. She felt exhilarated. "

― Malinda Lo , Last Night at the Telegraph Club

17 " Haven’t you ever wondered what it would be like to have nothing keeping you attached to the ground? When we were taking off, the plane was rolling along the runway on its wheels, right? You could feel every bump and every jolt. And it went faster and faster and then all of a sudden—nothing.” Kath snapped her fingers, the excitement of the memory suffusing her face in a rosy glow. “The wheels lift off the ground, and you don’t feel it anymore. There are no more bumps. Everything is miraculously smooth. You feel like—well, like a bird! Nothing’s holding you down. You’re floating. You’re flying. And the ground just falls away below you, and you look out the window and everything becomes more and more distant, and none of it matters anymore. You’re up in the air. "

― Malinda Lo , Last Night at the Telegraph Club

18 " Perhaps one day she’d get used to the way it made her feel: dislocated and dazed, never quite certain if the other half of her would stay offstage as directed. But tonight she felt as if she were constantly on the edge of saying or doing something wrong, and the effort of keeping that unwelcome half silent was making her sick. "

― Malinda Lo , Last Night at the Telegraph Club

19 " At each intersection she cast skittish glances at the women waiting for the light to change, wondering if she was one of them too, or her, or her. "

― Malinda Lo , Last Night at the Telegraph Club

20 " It also revealed the naked expanse of her back, the bones of her spine like a map for someone’s fingers. "

― Malinda Lo , Last Night at the Telegraph Club