Adele Griffin > Quotes

“It's strange how so much life can be lived without speaking”
― Adele Griffin, Where I Want to Be

“Fears are to be faced, not denied, and life is to be lived, not mourned.”
― Adele Griffin, Where I Want to Be

“Aunt Clara doesn't take her eyes off her toast. Her delicate jet earrings tremble as her knife scratches at the toast like a cat's paw, buttering every inch. Strange how even the most mundane habits of dislikable people can strike such harsh chords. I even hate the way Aunt butters.”
― Adele Griffin, Picture the Dead

“But he's got your way of making me lean into peace whenever I see red.”
― Adele Griffin, The Unfinished Life of Addison Stone

“And I didn't mean to shut her out, but sometimes I did it anyway. I liked having power. Power is its own kind of magic.”
― Adele Griffin, Where I Want to Be

“This story in my head is too hot to touch. I grabbed it anyway.”
― Adele Griffin, All You Never Wanted

“What are you burning?" On a glance, just some papers.
"I write in a journal." He spoke below his breath, so that his words weren't quite for me. "Because I like to see everything written down. So that I know it really happened. That I wasn't just making it up. Then I read it and memorize it. And then I have to destroy the hard evidence."
I thought of my own journal, the muddle of every page. All those unfiltered, lunatic letters to Sean Ryan.
"What is it, exactly, that you need to destroy?"
"Everything that I don't want to be true.”
― Adele Griffin, Tighter

“Not that I was morbidly obese or anything. But I guess I was hanging on the hope that one day I might accidentally whittle down to my inner toothpick.”
― Adele Griffen

“Peter and Jessie were like Romeo and Juliet. Have you ever seen that old movie? Starring Leonardo Dicaprio?”
― Adele Griffin, Tighter

“I love that I never know who I'm going to meet next in New York. Sometimes I imagine all these millions of kids who have come here like jeweled doorknobs marked “turn me.” It's an Alice-in-Wonderland kind of city.”
― Adele Griffin, The Unfinished Life of Addison Stone

“She needs to make one phone call, and she wishes she could make it into her past. Into last year. Or two years ago.”
― Adele Griffen

“The fastest journey is achieved on foot”
― Adele Griffin, Where I Want to Be

“Revenge is two wrongs that make a right. Julian did something wrong. What did you do wrong?”
― Adele Griffin, The Julian Game

“Sister Maria Martinez whom I believe I've mentioned before has been giving me cooking classes. Today I learned how to bake mean banana bread. The secret apparently is half a cup of dark rum.”
― Adele Griffin

“Never feel like you need to visit him, ever?"
"I see him every morning in the mirror. I think of him as the ghost version of me. And who needs to visit your own ghost?”
― Adele Griffin, All You Never Wanted

“Or maybe I was just in progress. Hatching another character for another extraordinary story, yet untold.”
― Adele Griffin, All You Never Wanted

“Everyone knows your written story is a lie. But if you're going to get people to believe your lie out loud, then you have to muffle them in your breezy, shocking, junky, juicy, sexy, needless words. As for your darlings? That's the goo of anticipation. What sticks 'em to their seats. And the whole entire point of the project is that you're launching yourself into the void. Spitting in blood and crossing your heart to vouch for an experience you'd never known. That you couldn't feel, touch, or taste until the moment it was on your tongue and you realized — Everyone is buying this crap. Even me.

It pumped me up just to think about.”
― Adele Griffin, All You Never Wanted

“You just can't know the feeling of being mother to a girl who you thought might die every single day - right up until the day she did.”
― Adele Griffin, The Unfinished Life of Addison Stone

“The truth? I saw an artist locking herself in the same prison cell that had almost killed her. Boring is also dangerous. Idle hands, et cetera.”
― Adele Griffin, The Unfinished Life of Addison Stone