Maggie Thrash > Quotes

“Not every moment has to happen.”
― Maggie Thrash, Honor Girl: A Graphic Memoir

“Well that's exactly the magic of the Backstreet Boys.

They Transcend all that stuff.”
― Maggie Thrash, Honor Girl: A Graphic Memoir

“Fear is natural, I was sure she would say. Fear is good. Fear is the universe whispering in your ear: I want you to survive.”
― Maggie Thrash, Rainbow Black

“Because what’s ironic is that being in love doesn’t actually make you happy. It makes it impossible to be happy. You’re carrying this desire now. Maybe if you knew where it came from, you could put it back. But you don’t.”
― Maggie Thrash, Honor Girl: A Graphic Memoir

“Everything was the same. That shouldn’t have surprised me - wasn’t it always the same? But it seemed unbelievable this time that things could just go on, oblivious of me, with no sympathy for the fact that I was a different person now.”
― Maggie Thrash

“Why was everyone so willing to be boring?”
― Maggie Thrash, We Know It Was You

“What no one realized about life was that every second you weren't free, you were dying. Every breath you breathed was a criminal waste of air if you weren't free.”
― Maggie Thrash, Strange Lies

“Of all the recreational activities of man, golf had to be the stupidest. The massive effort to beat nature into submission--daily moving, watering, and dousing of chemicals--so a man could pay ninety thousand dollars to push a ball into a hole. It was like they'd deliberately dreamed up the most expensive and ecologically damaging way to enjoy a day in the sun.”
― Maggie Thrash, Strange Lies

“It was the kind of regret that gave lobotomies a certain appeal. Better to have it all wiped clean than to spend the rest of your life defined by one impulsive, destructive, decision. One lie. One pull of a trigger. (page 387)”
― Maggie Thrash, Rainbow Black

“I’ve always attached myself to beauty, as if its dazzling beams offered concealment, forcing anyone who might be looking for me to squint into its blinding glare.”
― Maggie Thrash, Rainbow Black

“Of the many doors I’d assumed were shut to me forever, some oversight had left beauty ajar.”
― Maggie Thrash, Rainbow Black

“You might assume my father is a Republican because he's so old-fashioned. But actually he's a Democrat. In the South, the difference is that Democrats go bird hunting while Republicans go deer hunting.”
― Maggie Thrash, Lost Soul, Be at Peace

“My mother had always made it seem like losing my virginity would feel like becoming a luminous fruit on the tree of knowledge. The reality was I felt a lumpy apple someone had taken a bite out of and left on the ground to rot.”
― Maggie Thrash, Rainbow Black

“Malice begets evil and more malice. It spreads like a disease. It make's people's souls rot off, like syphilis.”
― Maggie Thrash, Rainbow Black

“But I knew. He was punishing me. Just like his wife, I'd failed to be the woman he needed me to be to make his life meaningful. (Page 296)”
― Maggie Thrash, Rainbow Black

“Why are you afraid to be beautiful?”
― Maggie Thrash, Rainbow Black

“In the forest, life resumed– real life. Natural creatures in a theater of symbiosis honed over thousands of years. Tree, spider, bird, deer. I’d always envied animals, their souls’ sense of purpose, of destiny. A fox is born knowing what it’s meant to do. Its life is meaningful because it plays the role it was born to play. Unlike people, who flail cluelessly from cradle to grave, fucking everything up.”
― Maggie Thrash, Rainbow Black

“…nothing to my name but the rugged will to live, which is beautiful and horrible– a lone, gnarled tree jutting from the cliffside, exposed, hanging on.”
― Maggie Thrash, Rainbow Black

“And if such a thing as true love exists, then its absence is true loneliness– not the boredom of having no friends or no one to call in a strange new place, but the crushing, irreversibly retarding isolation of being a child whom no one cares about.”
― Maggie Thrash, Rainbow Black

“Would I not have loved her if your positioned were reversed, making me the benign one and her the one with a heart deformed by violence? Of course I would have. (400)”
― Maggie Thrash, Rainbow Black

“I thought of my mom, who was so strict about never feeding the wild animals in the forest: “If you spoil them with handouts, they’ll forget how to survive. They'll die.” Was that what would happen to me now?”
― Maggie Thrash, Rainbow Black

“So I weighed my options, going back and forth about whether I should cut her off completely before I got too attached or try to get as much love from her as possible while she lasted.”
― Maggie Thrash, Rainbow Black

“Everyone wants to talk about MY BODY. No one understands MY MIND.”
― Maggie Thrash, Rainbow Black

“Ugh, Lacey, you always do this.”
“Do what?”
“Romanticize people after they’re gone.”
― Maggie Thrash, Rainbow Black

“All I can say is that freedom’s a feeling I’ll never know: to be so beautiful you terrify the world, daring it to annihilate you. Unlike me, whose only hope is to survive.”
― Maggie Thrash, Rainbow Black

“Still, I can’t bring myself to regret our choice, because how sick would it have been to part ways with beauty when it was so miraculous that it had returned to me at all?”
― Maggie Thrash, Rainbow Black

“Meanwhile my father had remained godlike in my eyes, the sum of man’s potential to be noble and good. The reality that he was just a man was too much to bear.”
― Maggie Thrash, Rainbow Black

“I've grown up I guess. Which isn't about your age or your body. It's about the moment you stop kidding yourself that the things you've lost can ever be found.”
― Maggie Thrash, Lost Soul, Be at Peace

“I had just learned a fundamental lesson about sex: sex makes people vulnerable, and for that they will punish you.”
― Maggie Thrash, Rainbow Black

“I wouldn’t lie for them. I would tell the truth even if it hurt them.”
― Maggie Thrash, Rainbow Black