Kelly Braffet > Quotes

“Logic is what the devil likes most.”
― Kelly Braffet, Josie and Jack

“Nature has a pretty sick sense of humor.”
― Kelly Braffet, Josie and Jack

“To kill was to be doomed. To kill was to die, yourself.”
― Kelly Braffet, Save Yourself

“It wasn’t so much that I thought there was nowhere to go, in this huge city; but with so many places to go, where were you supposed to begin?”
― Kelly Braffet, Fabulous Things: A Slightly Twisted Love Story

“When you love somebody, you don't just give up on them when they do bad things. You fight for them.”
― Kelly Braffet, Save Yourself

“It all began to seem unreal, the chairs and the waiting and the dead girl at home in the closet.”
― Kelly Braffet, Josie and Jack

“The store was filled with hollow-eyed people standing in line: at the sandwich counter, at the soda fountain, at the register. All of them waiting, waiting, their hands full of candy, chips, cups of coffee, money. It was like purgatory, with snacks. Not just the customers; the employees, too. They worked the registers, squirted ketchup on hot dogs, piled limp lettuce onto flaccid lunch meat and waited for it to be over, waited until they could go home.”
― Kelly Braffet, Save Yourself

“Human beings suck the life out of everything that's beautiful.”
― Kelly Braffet, Josie and Jack

“Caro, you're a pretty girl, but I'd no sooner fuck a good waitress than I'd key my own car”
― Kelly Braffet, Save Yourself

“Hate can be just as intimate as love.”
― Kelly Braffet, Save Yourself

“Miranda rolls her eyes. "Passing over," she says. "That's nice. Is that anything like kicking the bucket? Keeling over, taking a dirt nap, biting the big one?”
― Kelly Braffet, Last Seen Leaving

“You couldn’t talk about the way things should be in somebody else’s family. Families were like oceans. You never knew what was under the surface, in the parts you hadn’t seen. Caro”
― Kelly Braffet, Save Yourself

“Did you blame the men who fired the guns, the men who built the guns, or the men who invented the guys? Did you blame the men who had put those particular guns in the hands attached to those particular trigger fingers? When Nick's plane crashed into the ocean off Honduras at a speed which turned the ocean to unyielding stone, was it Western Mountain's fault, for sending him out?Nick's, for going? Anne's, for letting him? Did you blame the human beings who had made such a world possible, or the world that had made such human beings possible?
The answer, she thought, lying now in her missing daughter's bed (Was it Miranda, for pushing a limit any time she saw one? Anne again, for uprooting her so callously, for failing in some way to adequately console her after her father's death?), was that you had two choices: you could blame everybody, or you could blame nobody.”
― Kelly Braffet, Last Seen Leaving

“All he would say was that sometimes you have to burn it down and start over.”
― Kelly Braffet, Last Seen Leaving

“Did you ever, think when the hearse passes by, that someday in it you will lie?”
― Kelly Braffet

“Sex is just sex. It's everything wrapped around it that's the problem.”
― Kelly Braffet, Save Yourself

“The only way to keep something pure is to keep it to yourself.”
― Kelly Braffet, Josie and Jack

“That was my brother: it was like he was his own species, one that had sneaked a couple thousand extra years in while evolution was looking the other way.”
― Kelly Braffet, Josie and Jack

“but my stomach rebelled anew at the sight of the separated chicken leg on my plate, the white knob of bone glistening through the cooked tendons. It didn’t look like food. It looked like a piece of a dismembered corpse. Eating it, I knew, was a practical impossibility.”
― Kelly Braffet, Josie and Jack

“It's not about danger, it's about control. Keep people scared and stupid and you can make them do anything you want.”
― Kelly Braffet, Save Yourself

“Anything that humanity does from here on out is a wave at the band as we leave the dance floor.”
― Kelly Braffet, Josie and Jack

“Lately, she found herself thinking about Brent a lot, and for the first time, feeling angry. Because she had been twelve years old and all she'd wanted was a safe place, and now she was twenty-five and she wanted the same thing, and life shouldn't be so fucking hard, you shouldn't have to give so fucking much.”
― Kelly Braffet, Save Yourself

“The problem with hope, Anne finds through the years, is that it gets your hopes up. But hopelessness is worse.”
― Kelly Braffet, Last Seen Leaving

“You think you're paying your dollar for a chance at the $6.2 million jackpot on Saturday, but really you're paying for the pleasure of the car ride home, deciding which credit card to pay off first and where your kid will suddenly be able to go to college.”
― Kelly Braffet

“Families were like oceans. You never knew what was under the surface, in the parts you hadn’t seen.”
― Kelly Braffet, Save Yourself

“He did not understand her. They were not the same. The garage, the trial, the old man with his head in his hands--his mother, struggling to breathe--those things were horrors. The mess under Layla's clothes was a game and he hated her for making a part of it, for ever coming near him.”
― Kelly Braffet, Save Yourself

“We have to make our own opportunities. The world does not deliver kindnesses.”
― Kelly Braffet, Josie and Jack

“Death, Randa thought, elevated people.”
― Kelly Braffet, Last Seen Leaving

“Caro needed to be important. It was boring and typical and transparent as hell, even to her, but she couldn’t turn it off any more than she could quit having arms.”
― Kelly Braffet, Save Yourself

“There are people who live their entire lives and never know this kind of love.”
― Kelly Braffet, Josie and Jack