Katie Crouch > Quotes

“Without a bellyful of liquor, all I am is a woman who cracks stupid jokes to make up for being shy.”
― Katie Crouch, Girls in Trucks

“I watched, hoping she wouldn't come out too broke. It's all you can do for people sometimes, no matter how much you love them.”
― Katie Crouch, Girls in Trucks

“He doesn't bother to talk, and I don't either, but we look. We stare. And for a moment, I am sure of everything. For a second, with my bare feet on the fresh thick grass, there has not been, for any of us, even one mistake.”
― Katie Crouch, Girls in Trucks

“You're going to have to go beyond yourself to keep him. That's a tiring thing.”
― Katie Crouch, Girls in Trucks

“Alex," Madison says through clenched teeth, "if you keep talking in bumper stickers, I am going to stab you in the face.”
― Katie Crouch, The Magnolia League

“We are all somewhere else, during.”
― Katie Crouch, Girls in Trucks

“And then there's the truth beyond that, sitting like an old rock under green creek water: none of these things matter. Right now, in this moment, we have love. We have it in the sound of my daughter's laugher, in Mom's and Georgia's locked fingers, in the warm pressure of J.T.'s hand. It will leave, and it will come again, and when it does I'll give up everything and take it. Just like an addict. Like dry grass in new rain. It's not something I'm proud of necessarily. Then again, maybe I am.”
― Katie Crouch, Girls in Trucks

“We were all alive, and we loved and hated and lived brilliant, messy existences. The air is thick with our wanting.”
― Katie Crouch, Abroad

“Don't you see?" she says. "I want your life to be better than mine. That's all any parent wants.”
― Katie Crouch, The White Glove War

“It's important to love someone."
"Even if you can't have that person?"
"I think caring for someone is never a bad thing, even if the situation you idealize doesn't happen for you...I think that anything that gets people through the day is a good thing."
"Like God?"
"Like God.”
― Katie Crouch, Men and Dogs

“Being unfaithful to yourself is not as hard as you'd think. I will never compromise myself for someone else, I always thought. I'll kill myself first. But it's so easy. It's like wearing earplugs. It's as if you've put your head under the pillow during a thunderstorm, so that all you can hear is the faint sound of muffled rain.”
― Katie Crouch, Girls in Trucks

“...while you've never heard of her, in my mind she's practically a celebrity.”
― Katie Crouch and Grady Hendrix, The White Glove War

“I wish I were the graceful sort. I was trained to be. "Never chase men or buses," my mother told me. "Another one will always come along." Still, I always run after the subway, and when men go, I follow.”
― Katie Crouch, Girls in Trucks

“These, of course, are not the preppy boys we go to school with; these are the dirt-in-the-cracks-of-the-hands kind of boys, farmhands and fishermen who, once school starts, we'll let drift away...But they're nice to us because they're country, and they're just glad to have any kind of girl along. They keep coolers for us full of beers and sodas and green boiled peanuts in Ziplock bags and tell us we're pretty as models. They're either blind or lying, but you know what? It's summer, and we don't care.”
― Katie Crouch

“She's as common as pig tracks. Just her being here lowers the tone of the entire city.”
― Katie Crouch and Grady Hendrix, The White Glove War

“[M]y grandmother and I sit across from each other at the Gryphon Tea Room, on the grandest section of Bull Street.”
― Katie Crouch and Grady Hendrix, The White Glove War

“[A]s if enjoying a last, drawn-out supper, he sips on Alexandria's shadows. He hovers nearby, preparing to devour her dreams.”
― Katie Crouch and Grady Hendrix

“Alex, if you keep talking in bumper stickers, I am going to stab you in the face.”
― Katie Crouch, The Magnolia League

“So yes, I knew how to dance. I just wasn't able to look at the person I was dancing with. A sort of glass cage fell over me, in the form of a distant, distracted smile.”
― Katie Crouch, Abroad

“There is life and there is death, but on the border, where one shades into the other, there is the In Between. "...[M]ost people go through life without even knowing that it's there.”
― Katie Crouch and Grady Hendrix, The White Glove War

“[D]ear...You just charmed the pants off her with that hunting trip!”
― Katie Crouch and Grady Hendrix, The White Glove War

“I suppose there's a time in life when a garden of roses and lavender fails to blind a girl to the true shabbiness of a place. I myself had not reached that moment of clarity.”
― Katie Crouch, Abroad

“There you are! Aren't you precious?”
― Katie Crouch and Grady Hendrix, The White Glove War

“I can't help frowning. "But Madison designed that cocktail dress herself...”
― Katie Crouch and Grady Hendrix, The White Glove War

“[W]ithout the League, you'd be nothing.”
― Katie Crouch and Grady Hendrix, The White Glove War

“Magnolia leadership isn't a given. Not forever. You have to earn your spot.”
― Katie Crouch and Grady Hendrix, The White Glove War

“[M]y grandmother...had always complained that our house didn't have a profile that was "significant enough.”
― Katie Crouch and Grady Hendrix, The White Glove War

“rooibos teas”
― Katie Crouch, Embassy Wife

“If not for her truly sparkling personality, she would have been doomed.”
― Katie Crouch and Grady Hendrix, The White Glove War

“I'm named after my great grand-mother...while you've never heard of her, in my mind she's practically a celebrity.”
― Katie Crouch and Grady Hendrix, The White Glove War