Mae Murray > Quotes

“He loves the parts of me he wants to love. He loves the parts of me that can live with the kind of father he is, the parts that forgive his drunk ass time and time again!”
― Mae Murray, I'm Sorry If I Scared You

“Less than two months ago, Odie thought she was going to finish college, graduate with honors, stay in the city, get a decent job somewhere and have a mundane life. Sure, she needed to kick her alcohol habit sometime on the way, but the point is that it was all possible. Possible in a way it had never been before. That was all gone now. The dream had been hollowed out, and the shell of it had been filled with rage. Rage and Baby. Maybe the only way to get through this was by the skin of their teeth.”
― Mae Murray, I'm Sorry If I Scared You

“And it got me thinkin’ about how easy it was to get rid of them cops for Odie, how they got what was coming to them, and I don’t feel one bit bad about it. One thing I reckoned, as I sat there watching Odie sleep, and watching Bubba dream the dreams of the almost-dead, was that the world would be a lot better place if Odette’s rapist wasn’t in it, like it was a better place now without them cops. And we’d gone far enough, what did one more dead bastard matter?”
― Mae Murray, I'm Sorry If I Scared You

“Kill the cop inside your mind,” Baby whispered from Odie’s lips, and they all nodded in agreement. Baby always knew just what to say, but chaos was more than a catch phrase. It was a calling.”
― Mae Murray, I'm Sorry If I Scared You

“Teeth spat in a bloody arc, clattering against the wall and floor like rain on a tin roof.”
― Mae Murray, I'm Sorry If I Scared You

“For just a moment, she forgot her reluctance to come home, because home was not a place as much as it was a feeling, and the feeling was love, love, love.”
― Mae Murray, I'm Sorry If I Scared You

“You were raped. You had an abortion. Your little brother was shot. Life’s never been easy for none of us, not a day in our lives. It’s been shit, and it’ll always be shit. All we’ve got is each other.”
― Mae Murray, I'm Sorry If I Scared You

“She didn’t think of her family, what they might think of all this if she were discovered, nor did her thoughts turn to death row, final meals, and fist fights in isolated cell blocks. Instead, she thought of everything she had worked to achieve; her academic scholarship, dorm life and a reliable bed and three cafeteria meals a day, honors classes and the hope she had hung on her degree ever since she could remember. Daddy always said that a good education was her ticket out of the life her family had lived for generations, a life of blood and sweat and soil. But it didn’t matter where in the world she went, this life followed, nipping at her heels like a wild dog.”
― Mae Murray, I'm Sorry If I Scared You