Girls
Quotes - Girls can cry very easily
“She
dressed every morning with a greater sense of purpose than she had felt in some
time, a cotton skirt, a jersey, sandals she could kick off when she wanted the
touch of the accelerator, and she dressed very fast, running a brush through
her hair once or twice and tying it back with a ribbon...”
―
Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays
“An
aside on the question of pleasure. The subject didn't really get much pleasure
from all this fornicating she was doing. The compulsion wasn't to feel good, it
was to enjoy the feeling of making someone want her, of making someone else
feel good. Frequency of condition was high, in fact constant.”
―
Claire Dederer, Love and Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning
“Oh,”
he said with resigned defeat. “Would you rather…have someone else? Please don’t
say Blake. He’ll be impossible—”
“No,
it’s—”
Ayden
slapped his forehead. “Matthias.”
I
choked. He raked his fingers through his hair and nodded. “Girls always go for
the dark brooding one with the tortured past. Should’ve seen that coming”
― A.
Kirk
“Oh,”
he said with resigned defeat. “Would you rather…have someone else? Please don’t
say Blake. He’ll be impossible—”
“No,
it’s—”
Ayden
slapped his forehead. “Matthias.”
I
choked. He raked his fingers through his hair and nodded. “Girls always go for
the dark brooding one with the tortured past. Should’ve seen that coming”
― A.
Kirk, Dark Demon Knights
“Girls
can cry very easily, it is very difficult to understand which is real and which
is dramatic.”
―
Saju
“Some
girls minds change like nature.”
―
Saju
“Boys
need to talk more. Boys need to say things and not assume things. You and my pa
and Steffan and everyone, you’re going to make us girls insane!”
―
Shannon Hale, Palace of Stone
“They
looked at us girls with contempt in their eyes, ready to accept a power given
to them unfairly. They had no idea what to do with it. And we felt the
injustice as if someone else had been given a complicated toy we would have
been able to put together in two seconds.”
―
Lana Bastašić, Catch the Rabbit
“Never
understood why there weren’t Day Girls.’
‘Same
as why there aren’t woman Masters.’
‘Mistresses,’
Anne corrects. I wince, feel heat in my face, hotter than the day.
‘The
women come out all crooked; it breaks them, burns ’em up. Girls is a bit
different, Dain says.’
(...)
‘You
know what I think?’ she says.
‘I
guess I will in a moment.’
‘I
think they’re frightened of us. And…’ I look in her eyes, dark as the sky in
the middle of the night. ‘They should be.”
―
Trent Jamieson, Day Boy
“Don't
let her fill your head. She's the destroying type.”
―
Brooke Lea Foster, Summer Darlings
“I
was supposed to have an edge. But sharp-edged girls had feelings, too.”
―
Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games
“People
love to ogle pretty girls, but they love to hate them even more. There's no one
the masses are more obsessed with railing at than the women who dare to stray
from the docile ideal of wives and mothers.”
―
Xiran Jay Zhao, Iron Widow
“Pretty
much the strongest, most badass, and rebellious thing that you can do is to
love your body in this world that screams at you that you shouldn't.”
―
Laura Bates, Girl Up
“Some
girl's hearts do not possess a flame, or the flame got blown out too many times
ever to catch fire again.”
―
Rolf van der Wind
“Sometimes
little girls must become their own heroes.”
―
Asha Bromfield, Hurricane Summer
“We
were from different circles; would pass in corridors without so much as a
glance, as though this conversation had never taken place. I see it now, among
the girls I teach: the oil-and-water separation of types, hard to define and
yet instinctively known. It's a power one learns as a girl and never forgets:
the ability to place one's peers in their hierarchy with little more than a
glance. Impressive, I suppose, in its own, cruel way.”
―
Katie Lowe, The Furies
“I've
become just like the white boys at middle-school dances: the boys by the wall,
earthbound boys, wing-severed boys with stiff bodies. There is nothing behind
the door in my chest that should uncage the kind of feminine softness I should
have, the kind you told me would settle into my chest and my hips. It never
did.”
―
Zeyn Joukhadar, The Thirty Names of Night
“Do
you ever wonder if the girls who come in here realize they're gonna grow up
exactly as fucked as we are?”
―
Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
“Girls
born into a patriarchal society become either shrewd or sick. It’s one or the
other.”
―
Glennon Doyle, Untamed
“If
you want to shave your legs, a nurse or orderly has to be present, but no one
wants that, and so our legs are like hairy-boy legs.”
―
Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces
