H.A. Clarke > Quotes

“I guess my point is that teenage girls aren't supposed to be powerful, you know? Everybody hates teenage girls. They hate our bodies and hate us if we want to change them. They hate the things we're supposed to like but hate it when we like other things even more because that means we're ruining their things. Were somehow this great corrupting influence, even though we've barely got legal agency of our own. But the three of us the four of us, counting you were powerful.”
― Hannah Abigail Clarke, The Scapegracers

“I used to underline passages in my English books, because certain lines crawled off the page, because those lines were magic and they meant something on a cosmic scale.”
― Hannah Abigail Clarke, The Scapegracers

“Don't do that. Never do that. Don't ever say you're not beautiful, not ever, okay? Girls are just beautiful. That's just the way they are.”
― H.A. Clarke, The Scapegracers

“I just don’t know what I’m going to do now.” “Me neither. That’s life.”
― H.A. Clarke, The Feast Makers

“Don't keep cutting. You'll let the lovely chewy bits loose. It's much better with the lovely chewy bits, Sideways. It's so delicious. It's very good for me. I will feel so much better if I eat it with the chewy middle bits and all. Sideways, my darling dearest dear. My noble daughter. My courageous, goodly child. Please put this eye in your mouth.”
― H.A. Clarke, The Scratch Daughters

“Jing’s cherry convertible was an inappropriate pop of color; a spot of blood on clean black scales.”
― Hannah Abigail Clarke, The Scapegracers

“I could fuck with that.” I opened my jaws and felt myself almost say something awful and significantly gayer than I intended,”
― Hannah Abigail Clarke, The Scapegracers

“What the fuck are bleacher gods?” The door was in sight, thank the bleacher gods, and”
― Hannah Abigail Clarke, The Scapegracers

“Daisy could murder someone with a glance. Holy hell, I wanted that. I wanted to be gorgeous and reckless and legendary, or at least somebody people liked. I wanted the privilege of being mistaken for someone like her. I wanted to be her. No, I didn’t. I wanted to be the leather in her jacket. We could be despicable together.”
― Hannah Abigail Clarke, The Scapegracers

“IF TEENS DON’T HAVE SPIRIT, THEN WHAT’S THAT SMELL?”
― Hannah Abigail Clarke, The Scapegracers

“Coal is a non-renewable resource. Thanks Santa. Bring me lots. I'll sell it and make bank. Fuck the planet, I guess.”
― H.A. Clarke, The Scapegracers

“The katydids were dead by now, so the four of us sat in total silence out by the pool.”
― Hannah Abigail Clarke, The Scapegracers

“PEOPLE I’M IN LOVE WITH, and all the entries had been scratched out save three names: Daisy, Yates, and Rico Nasty.”
― Hannah Abigail Clarke, The Scapegracers

“I cracked my knuckles, click-click-click, but my left ring finger was stuck un-cracked, and it took a substantial amount of willpower not to snap it trying.”
― Hannah Abigail Clarke, The Scapegracers

“Nice candles. Going for girth, I see. Good girl.”
― Hannah Abigail Clarke, The Scapegracers

“feathered bobs,”
― Hannah Abigail Clarke, The Scapegracers