Lynn Weingarten > Quotes

“He delivered his hand to my ass, so I delivered my knee to his balls." -- Nina Wrigley”
― Lynn Weingarten, Wherever Nina Lies

“Finally! You're here!"
Uh....Do I know you?"
Well, no....But you're here, all the same...”
― Lynn Weingarten, Wherever Nina Lies

“Finding a best friend is like finding a true love: when you meet yours, you just know.”
― Lynn Weingarten, Suicide Notes from Beautiful Girls

“Sometimes the kindest thing you can do for a person is to shield them from that which will not help them. Make the decision and then carry the burden yourself, bear the weight so that they don't have to.”
― Lynn Weingarten, Suicide Notes from Beautiful Girls

“The messed-up thing is how so many people think your body is their business, especially if you're a girl.”
― Lynn Weingarten, Suicide Notes from Beautiful Girls

“Do broken hearts make you brave or do they just make you stupid?”
― Lynn Weingarten, The Secret Sisterhood of Heartbreakers

“The most important thing is believing your beautiful. The benefit of improving one's looks lies largely therein.”
― Lynn Weingarten, The Secret Sisterhood of Heartbreakers

“Life messes us up in so many ways, messes all of us right the hell up. And when we fumble and bumble around, crashing into one another, stepping on toes and hearts, it's not on purpose. Being a person is nearly impossible.”
― Lynn Weingarten, Bad Girls with Perfect Faces

“The world is only as fair as you make it.”
― Lynn Weingarten, Suicide Notes from Beautiful Girls

“I close my eyes and suddenly remember something Nina had told me the night before my first day of middle school: If you're going somewhere where you feel like you might not belong, the only person you need to work to convince is yourself. Everyone else is easy.”
― Lynn Weingarten, Wherever Nina Lies

“I know how quickly things can go away, how hard it can be to make them come back. You have to clench your jaw so tight you can barely stand it, grind sand between gritted teeth in a fire-hot mouth, then wait till it melts, spit out glass. Build it all again.”
― Lynn Weingarten, Suicide Notes from Beautiful Girls

“‎"The less random stuff you hear about, the more room in your ears for music, that's what I always say" -Paisley”
― Lynn Weingarten, The Secret Sisterhood of Heartbreakers

“Her eyes meet mine and she smiles. And I swear it's like the whole goddamn sun is beaming right out of it.”
― Lynn Weingarten, Suicide Notes from Beautiful Girls

“People act like being angry is a bad thing. Calm down, sit down, be quiet, be a good girl. Fuck. That. Anger is power. Anger is a weapon and a gift. Anger takes the pit in your stomach and makes it a black hole. And everybody watch the fuck out.”
― Lynn Weingarten, Bad Girls with Perfect Faces

“We like to say that love is what unites us; however it's fear that we all share.”
― Lynn Weingarten, The Secret Sisterhood of Heartbreakers

“Sometimes, when there’s danger, the answer is to curl into yourself and wait.”
― Lynn Weingarten, Suicide Notes from Beautiful Girls

“Iced coffee is my crack.”
― Lynn Weingarten, Wherever Nina Lies

“I realize yes, this is done. After all this time, after so much thinking and worrying, clinging so tightly. Just like that, there is nothing to hold on to.”
― Lynn Weingarten, Suicide Notes from Beautiful Girls

“I had wanted to tell him that loving someone should never be a problem, should never feel like one, but by then I already knew firsthand it wasn't really that simple.”
― Lynn Weingarten, Bad Girls with Perfect Faces

“I'm nothing if not completely inconsistent.”
― Lynn Weingarten, Suicide Notes from Beautiful Girls

“I cranked the radio and sang loud. I needed to hear a live human voice, and I was my own best hope.”
― Lynn Weingarten, Suicide Notes from Beautiful Girls

“It's natural. Nature is dark and light, birth and death. Everything and its opposite. And in nature there are predators and prey. The hunters and the hunted. The heartbreakers and the heartbroken. The beautiful thing is that Nature lets us choose which we want to be, most people never make the choice though because they don't even know they have it.”
― Lynn Weingarten, The Secret Sisterhood of Heartbreakers

“. Power you get from being beautiful is cheap.”
― Lynn Weingarten, Bad Girls with Perfect Faces

“The faraway monster always looks different than the monster in front of you, in your arms, in your heart. When someone you cherish does something incomprehensible, you will find reasons to decide they are the exception. You will cling to the details, tell yourself, but this is different. But it never is.”
― Lynn Weingarten, Bad Girls with Perfect Faces

“Be careful when your feelings are too strong, when you love someone too much. A heart too full is like a bomb. One day it will explode.”
― Lynn Weingarten, Bad Girls with Perfect Faces

“. But I also knew that when a story grabs ahold of you, it won’t let you go until it’s ready.”
― Lynn Weingarten, Bad Girls with Perfect Faces

“Because what is getting over someone if not a slow, excruciating forgetting?”
― Lynn Weingarten, Bad Girls with Perfect Faces

“Eventually I got to know him well enough to realize this: he delighted in the small things, but also knew that in the grand scheme of the world, nothing we did or felt mattered at all. And he got how that was unbelievably terrifying, but also was the thing that made us free.”
― Lynn Weingarten, Bad Girls with Perfect Faces

“The more secrets you have from someone, the harder it is to look them in the eye. Now I could barely look at him at all.”
― Lynn Weingarten, Bad Girls with Perfect Faces

“There was a pause then, texting dots appeared and disappeared and reappeared and disappeared again. My heart pounded. I wondered how many heart attacks each year are caused by those little hell dots.”
― Lynn Weingarten, Bad Girls with Perfect Faces