Magicath > Magicath's Quotes

“But you still haven't said you love me."
"That's not true."
"You haven't."
"I say it all the time, I just say it very, very quietly. I tell you when you're in another room, or right after we hang up the phone. I tell you when you've got headphones on. I say it after you shut the door behind you. I say it in my head every time you look at me.”
― Sarah Hogle, You Deserve Each Other

“I’m a miserable cynic (a newer development) and a dreamy romantic (always have been), and it’s such a terrible combination that I don’t know how to tolerate myself.”
― Sarah Hogle, You Deserve Each Other

“You wanna give me some space?” “Well, you’re not saying anything.” “I’m talking to myself right now. Give us a minute.”
― Sarah Hogle, You Deserve Each Other

“But I've got news for Nicholas Benjamin Rose: if he thinks I'm not the biggest waste of time that's ever happened to him, he's got another think coming.”
― Sarah Hogle, You Deserve Each Other

“We already know each other’s worst. We’ve battled right through it and come out the other side unbreakable. There will inevitably be arguments, concessions, and peace treaties drawn up in spilled blood, sweat, and tears. We’re going to have to choose each other, over and over, and be each other’s champion, never letting ourselves forget the good whenever we’re stuck in a patch of bad. It’s going to be work. But let me tell you something about Nicholas Benjamin Rosefield:

He’s worth it.”
― Sarah Hogle, You Deserve Each Other

“He heaves a deep breath. Wipes a tear away with his thumb. "I'm here, okay?" He grasps my shoulder and squeezes gently. "These aren't platitudes. I'm right here. And I want to listen. Whenever you're sad, I want to hear why. I want to know what you're feeling, all the time, so I can share those feelings with you.”
― Sarah Hogle, You Deserve Each Other

“Relearning you has been the best thing that's ever happened to me.”
― Sarah Hogle, You Deserve Each Other

“Being in love is frantic. Fluttery. Falling. It’s nervous sweats and pounding heartbeats and a feeling of tremendous rightness”
― Sarah Hogle, You Deserve Each Other

“Stacy can choke on store-bought sugar cookies like the rest of us. Why's he even bringing them? They're dentists. They should be eating celery.”
― Sarah Hogle, You Deserve Each Other

“Has Nicholas ever looked this happy? No. What a shame, to know I've been accepting anything less than this smile he's giving me right now.”
― Sarah Hogle, You Deserve Each Other

“He calls it his office or his study and in my head I still call it the drawing room, because in a past life I was a duchess and I've never quite gotten over being reborn as a commoner in this age.”
― Sarah Hogle, You Deserve Each Other

“You’re allowed to defend yourself when people hurt your feelings. You deserve to be around people who are good to you.”
― Sarah Hogle, You Deserve Each Other

“Give yourself permission to put yourself first.”
― Sarah Hogle, You Deserve Each Other

“He needs me to give voice to my feelings, because he's not a mind reader and it's not okay that I soak up what he gives without offering myself in return. I can't let him think he's alone, not for one moment.”
― Sarah Hogle, You Deserve Each Other

“There are hurts. I feel them all over, like stab wounds: the distance that we both allowed to settle in, ruining what should have been the happiest year of our lives. The ring that makes me feel like a fraud because it’s so huge. As ridiculous as it might sound, in my mind he gave me such a big diamond as a way of saying I love you THIS much!; but how could he have loved me THAT much when we still didn’t completely know each other? When we’d never argued before and didn’t live together and it was such smooth sailing. Way too good to be true.”
― Sarah Hogle, You Deserve Each Other

“You give me an apartment full of morning smells- toasted bagel and black coffee and the freckled lilies in the vase on the windowsill. You give me 24-across.”
― Rebecca Lindenberg, Love, an Index

“FRAGMENT, I am a fragment of us. I am a fragment composed
of fragments. Mosaic, pastiche, ruin. Everyday
consciousness proposes lightbulb, ropeswing, teapot,
David Bowie, your sweater on, your sweater off, tomatillo,
all associated. Parts suggesting the whole
they long to be gathered into.”
― Rebecca Lindenberg, Love, an Index

“I think there is a general misconception that you write poems because you “have something to say.” I think, actually, that you write poems because you have something echoing around in the bone-dome of your skull that you cannot say. Poetry allows us to hold many related tangential notions in very close orbit around each other at the same time. The “unsayable” thing at the center of the poem becomes visible to the poet and reader in the same way that dark matter becomes visible to the astrophysicist. You can’t see it, but by measure of its effect on the visible, it can become so precise a silhouette you can almost know it.”
― Rebecca Lindenberg

“I don’t know where old girl found a bikini that big, but she’s got maximum Don’t Give A Fuck mode engaged, and I’m surfing on her bitch wave.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became

“People who say change is impossible are usually pretty happy with things just as they are.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became

“This is the lesson: Great cities are like any other living things, being born and maturing and wearying and dying in their turn.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became

“And just to add insult to injury? I backhand its ass with Hoboken, raining the drunk rage of ten thousand dudebros down on it like the hammer of God. Port Authority makes it honorary New York, motherfucker; you just got Jerseyed.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became

“He pretends to be less special than he is, because the world has punished him for loving himself.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became

“Only the bodegas stand open, sentinels of The City That Never Sleeps And Occasionally Needs Milk At Two A.M.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became

“He’s been here one hour, but already he feels like he has never lived anywhere else. And even if he doesn’t know who he was… he knows who he is.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became

“Do you mean proactive like when you fucked my swim coach and knocked her up? Is that the kind of proactive I should be shooting for?”
― Karen M. McManus, The Cousins

“Everybody has secrets,' she says, taking a sip of her drink. 'That's nondebatable. The only question is whether you're keeping your own, or someone else's.”
― Karen M. McManus, The Cousins

“You have a very interesting look. Where are you from?'
Ugh. That's marginally better than the What are you? question I get sometimes, but still gross. 'New York,' I say pointedly. 'You?'
'I mean originally,' he clarifies, and that's it. I'm done.
'New York,' I repeat, and stand up from my stool.”
― Karen M. McManus, The Cousins

“Chloe likes the happy hour game because, she says, high school boys are immature. Which is true. But sometimes I think we might be better off not knowing how much worse they can get.”
― Karen M. McManus, The Cousins

“I think he might be an ex now,' I say as she zips up the back. 'My boyfriend, I mean.'
'You think?'
'Well, for awhile he wasn't returning any of my texts. Now I'm not returning his, so...'
I trail off, and she finishes, 'That's how it's done nowadays, huh? Goodness, I feel for you kids. Life is so complicated in the digital age. But he doesn't sound like the catch you deserve. And--there!' She smooths her hands over my hips and beams. 'Look at you! Perfect!”
― Karen M. McManus, The Cousins