Girls
Quotes - You are beautiful
“They
didn't have very far to fall - I knew just being a girl in the world
handicapped your ability to believe yourself. Feelings seemed completely
unreliable, like faulty gibberish scraped from a Ouija board. My childhood
visits to the family doctor were stressful events for that reason. He'd ask me
gentle questions: How was I feeling? How would I describe the pain? Was it more
sharp or more spread out? I'd just look at him with desperation. I needed to be
told, that was the whole point of going to the doctor. To take a test, be put
through a machine that could comb my insides with radiated precision and tell
me what the truth was. Of course the girls didn't leave the ranch: there is a
lot that can be borne. When I was nine, I'd broken my wrist falling from a
swing. The shocking crack, the blackout pain. But even then, even with my wrist
swelling with a cuff of trapped blood, I insisted I was fine, that it was
nothing, and my parents believed me right up until the doctor showed them the
X-ray, the bones snapped clean.”
―
Emma Cline, The Girls
“I
don’t understand why you insist on calling yourselves Three Little Piglettes,”
Mum groans. “It’s a horrible name.”
“We’ll
make it beautiful, you’ll see. Or better, we’ll make it powerful.”
―
Clémentine Beauvais, Piglettes
“when
you hate a girl because she gets to kiss the boy you like, any little
imperfection can become a spiteful nickname”
―
Wendy Brant, Zenn Diagram
“They
were laughing and their hair was shining like leaves in moonlight, their limbs
long as saplings. I thought, Girls are magical at this phase, girls are
invincible, nothing can touch them. I didn’t think ‘us’ because I didn’t feel
that; I felt other, on the outside, watching them.”
―
Francesca Lia Block, Love in the Time of Global Warming
“When
had she stopped being a child? The first time a guy had whistled at her out of
a car window when she was walking to school? The moment she started wondering
how she looked when she ran, what jiggled or bounced, instead of the pace she
was setting? The first time she’d kept from raising her hand because she didn’t
want to seem too smart or too eager?”
―
Leigh Bardugo, Wonder Woman: Warbringer
“How
little it takes to make a young girl happy! A pretty dress, sunshine, and
somebody opposite, and they are blest.”
―
Louisa May Alcott, Kitty's Class Day and Other Stories
“Twisting
the nipple so I inhaled audibly, and he hesitated for a moment but kept going.
His dick smearing at my bare thighs. I would be shunted along whatever would
happen, I understood. However he piloted the night. And there wasn't fear, just
a feeling adjacent to excitement, a viewing from the wings. What would happen
to Evie?”
―
Emma Cline, The Girls
“When
I put on makeup, I'm not doing it to pander to antiquated patriarchal ideas of
feminine beauty. I'm doing it because it makes me feel good.”
―
Sophia Amoruso, #Girlboss
“The
girl whose table I occupied was reading a book but I couldn’t help but notice
that all this time, she was secretly watching me.
“You
are beautiful.”
I
took my eyes off my phone and I saw the girl talking to me. I was embarrassed
and didn’t know what to say or how to react.”
―
Nico J. Genes, Magnetic Reverie
“Girls
who are on top of things must have three hundred ways of responding to tired
thirty-five-year-old divorced men.”
―
Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
“A
dormitory was a hopeless idea. Whoever thought of encasing two hundred girls in
a concrete box?”
―
Nathan Hill, The Nix
“A
beautiful girl in the library whispered to herself, "I too peek from the
book shelves, but I can't stare longer.”
―
Bhavik Sarkhedi, Will You Walk A Mile?
“For
every girl I thought I was uncomplicated sex, it wasn't. Put it this way: if
you can't see the complication, you're probably it.”
―
Daniel Handler, All the Dirty Parts
“It
seems almost like America wants their boys hurt. That they need that. That guy
who writes books about the wolf and the boy: every book has a scene where the
kid gets caught in an avalanche or a freak blizzard. Invariably, the kid winds
up naked and alone and bleeding to death and it's only the effort of the wolf
that saves him. The boy can never do it himself. If they did that with a female
character in a long set of books like that, the feminists would be up in arms.
But does anyone mind it when it's a little boy?”
― J.
Warren, Stealing Ganymede
“Is
it because I'm a girl?"
Reluctantly,
Bill nodded his head.
She
looked at him for a moment, her lips trembling, and Richie thought she would
cry. Instead, she exploded.
"Well,
fuck you!" She whirled around to look at the others, and they flinched
from her gaze, so hot it was nearly radioactive. "Fuck all of you if you
think the same thing!" she turned back to Bill and began to talk fast,
rapping him with words. "This is something more than some diddly shit kids
game like tag, or guns, or hide and go seek, and you know it, Bill! We're
supposed to do this, that's part of it! And you're not going to cut me out just
because I'm a girl, do you understand? You better. Or I'm leaving right now!”
―
Stephen King
“The
Sunday school trip: While us girls were alone, a nasty piece of work called
Louise, aged about eleven, decided that it would be a ‘fun’ idea to hang
someone over the cliff ... me!”
―
Eskay Teel, Alice in Worcestershire
“It
is said that there is never a girl born who ever grew older than eighteen in
her heart. The shroud that covers this free spirit is woven by the complex
threads of society.”
―
Swati Kumar, The Great Indian Dilemma
“I
could tell he was becoming sulky, as boys and men do when they're caught
bluffing. And I ignored him, as girls and women do when they catch them out.”
―
Alan Bradley, Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd
