Megan Angelo > Quotes

“She wanted the answer to the question. She was living in the before of something, and she was getting tired of it. The dangerous thing about the way she felt . . . was that she didn't know exactly what she wanted to happen, and she didn't care that she didn't know. Almost any change would do.”
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“She loved her father with ease and loved her mother with effort.”
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“There aren’t actually heroes or victims or villains. Not in our story, and probably not in anyone else’s. I know you know this deep down: it’s all in the edit.”
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“Her aloneness was so random, so total and unprovoked . . .”
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“She wanted to be what she already was, even if nobody knew it yet: a celebrity. A person, exaggerated.”
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“The frustrating part of it, writing a book she wasn't really writing, was that she had been good at this once, when she was young.”
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“She was thinking that all that stretched in front of her was doing things she didn't want to do.”
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“It’s all about the edit.”
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“I’m going to tell you the same thing I’ve been telling you since you were ten years old, Orla,” she said quietly, like she was trying not to embarrass her. “It’s not good to be a follower.”
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“But it didn't really matter how much time she spent clicking around his life, how many times she entered his name into a search box or how many days she managed not to. She was always waiting, still.”
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“There was one main difference between writing now and writing when she was in second grade: back then, she didn’t own screens. Now, whenever a sentence of hers unfurled into something awkward or just never began at all, she gave up. She let her eyes jump from her drab Word document to the brighter planes of her phone and TV. Suddenly it would be 1:00 a.m., and she would be tapping out half-dream run-ons—into her manuscript if she was lucky, Facebook if she wasn’t.”
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“But every time she remembered her phone wasn't there, she felt relieved, and free all over again. Like she'd been given more life to live.”
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“The light is right on their girl.”
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“the device.”
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“The smile she gave back to him made her feel like she was someone else, someone used to being part of things.”
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“This was how it worked, Orla saw now: being a parent meant that, sometimes, you got to apologize without apologizing, and being a child meant that, sometimes, you got to not apologize at all”
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“I always said we’d have a beautiful wall,”
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“Having a baby is one of the best parts of life' she says. 'But still. It's only one of them.'" - Page 368”
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“She figured out, as she cleared the mess from her vision, why she didn't like the gown anymore. It wasn't just that she had seen the color wrong, that the yellow screamed more loudly now than it had when she chose it. It was that she didn't like yellow at all, she realized. She had always thought it was her favorite color, but that was a trick of the pills. It was just that, before she saw everything clearly, it was the brightest thing.”
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“The pages were full of Microsoft gibberish, lorem ipsum and so on.”
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“. . . though she couldn't admit it directly, not even to herself.”
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“That was the thing about being the mouse in the maze, Marlow thought as the flamingos finished trembling, went still. She was the only one surprised by where she ended up.”
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“Is that what you think you'll be like? You'll wake up one day and feel like a mother? You never will, just so you know. The baby will come, and you'll wait to feel different. You'll wait for years and years. You'll always think you'll change one day. That you'll wake up and feel... Capable. Capable of protecting this precious little thing. But it never happens. So you keep being scared that you'll fail. And then, one day, you do.”
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“Of course it had been easy to long for him then, when maintaining their personas was their full-time job, when the right quip or band tee or book in common was enough to make them fall for each other. She saw now that she had built her life around a flawed hypothesis.”
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“It came to Orla suddenly, the key that had eluded her all her life. There was only one trick to making a choice, and that was doing it fast”
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“Search Orla Cadden,” she demanded.”
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“How she would miss the sight of his face when he was finally done disappearing.”
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“She understood now, in a way that she hadn't in college, that waiting for him was just part of her life. That she would never really stop. When people bumped her on the street without seeming to see her at all, she brushed it off with the thought: Someone is waiting to brag that he knows about me.”
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“Floss’s attitude toward Danny, Orla sensed, was one of patient disdain,”
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“She understood now, in a way that she hadn't in college, that waiting for him was just part of her life. That she would never really stop.”
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