Kate Williams > Quotes

“One might even have said that I was a connoisseur of the bus, if one used words like “connoisseur” for a thing that had no air-conditioning or heat and often smelled like pee and Fritos.”
― Kate Williams, The Babysitters Coven

“Shutting monsters in the closet doesn’t make them disappear. The thing about monsters is that they’re patient. They can sit forever, just waiting for someone to open the door.”
― Kate Williams, Never Coming Home

“I have to go visit my mom,”
― Kate Williams, The Babysitters Coven

“Stephani wasn’t a dog, but she sure as hell was a bitch,”
― Kate Williams, The Babysitters Coven

“She wore a flannel that was at least three sizes too big over a baby tee that was short enough to reveal a strip of taut stomach.”
― Kate Williams, The Babysitters Coven

“Today’s browns”
― Kate Williams, The Babysitters Coven

“Denise gets a step-daughter” was right when Lisa Bonet was going boho but wasn’t yet full earth mama. Janis had on baggy shibori-dyed pants, leather slippers, a gauzy silver shirt, and an oversized men’s blazer.”
― Kate Williams, The Babysitters Coven

“And that she bit back.”
― Kate Williams, The Babysitters Coven

“leopard-print paper-bag pants, a black cropped turtleneck, and a lipstick-red blazer, with oversized tortoiseshell glasses that didn’t have lenses. It was her eighties art-gallerist look.”
― Kate Williams, The Babysitters Coven

“That was when the airbags deployed.”
― Kate Williams, The Babysitters Coven

“He was the Harvey Weinstein of the junior class, and if there was any justice in this world, the Humane Society would have neutered him a long time ago.”
― Kate Williams, The Babysitters Coven

“I’d gone for a lipstick that was matte pink, swapped my normal tortoiseshell glasses for rhinestone cat-eyes, and added the pièce de résistance of my themed outfit: pewter bell jar earrings I found at the antiques mall.”
― Kate Williams, The Babysitters Coven

“could swear that somehow I’d done that. Even though I hadn’t. Because I couldn’t. Because that would have been impossible.”
― Kate Williams, The Babysitters Coven

“Two years old, and already into graffiti and huffing.”
― Kate Williams, The Babysitters Coven