Georgia Clark > Quotes

“The most intimate moments in the world don't happen in nightclubs or backstage or even on the movie screen. They were moments like this: sitting silently, comfortably, holding hands on a darkened bedroom floor.”
― Georgia Clark, She's with the Band

“I take a swig of booze. "I didn't do it. The surgery." "I heard," he says. "Can I ask why not?" I shrug, not because I don't know but because I don't feel like rehashing his role in my decision. "You know when you're hanging out with people and you have to leave early? Everyone tells you to stay, but you have to go, so you do a round of goodbyes and hugs and everything. Then, you're at the door, and you glance back, and you want everyone to still be staring after you, waving. But they've all already gone back to their conversation. You're not missed at all." I gaze out at the ocean, the endless shifting expanse. "That's what makes me feel sad about dying. That after I'm gone and everyone has said goodbye, life just goes on without me." "You're worried about leaving a legacy?" Cooper asks. "What you'll be remembered for?" "More like, I'll just miss life. Life. I'll miss being a part of it. I'll miss weddings and the ocean and music and champagne. I'll miss the drama and the gossip and the news and New York. I'll just miss it.”
― Georgia Clark, The Bucket List

“You are a goddess. You are a catch. You are, like, the outcome of every self-help book ever written.”
― Georgia Clark, The Regulars

“I take a swig of booze. "I didn't do it. The surgery." "I heard," he says. "Can I ask why not?" I shrug, not because I don't know but because I don't feel like rehashing his role in my decision. "You know when you're hanging out with people and you have to leave early? Everyone tells you to stay, but you have to co, so you do a round of goodbyes and hugs and everything. Then, you're at the door, and you glance back, and you want everyone to still be staring after you, waving. But they've all already gone back to their conversation. You're not missed at all." I gaze out at the ocean, the endless shifting expanse. "That's what makes me feel sad about dying. That after I'm gone and everyone has said goodbye, life just goes on without me." "You're worried about leaving a legacy?" Cooper asks. "What you'll be remembered for?" "More like, I'll just miss life. Life. I'll miss being a part of it. I'll miss weddings and the ocean and music and champagne. I'll miss the drama and the gossip and the news and New York. I'll just miss it.”
― Georgia Clark, The Bucket List

“I focus all my energy into become a faster, stronger, and better version of myself.”
― Georgia Clark

“My fingers find his. They are warm, pulsing with genetically altered blue blood, powered by mirror matter.”
― Georgia Clark, Parched

“We’re a nonviolent collective working to undermine the Trust and free the Badlands. Once the Trust is exposed as lying and corrupt, we believe Edenites will do the right thing. Open the borders. Save the Badlands.” Ling lowers her voice with deliberate control. “Kudzu is going to destroy something called Aevum.”
― Georgia Clark, Parched

“I like this... Let's always believe in the best in each other. That's how we'll make it work.”
― Georgia Clark, It Had to Be You

“Technology won’t protect you from being attacked for fresh water. A badass blade will. Back in Eden where I grew up, the closest thing to knifework I’d experienced was cutting up a loaf of warm bread. Last night, I’d gutted a wild prairie chicken after scaling a rock face to find its nest and slit its throat.
What a difference a year makes.”
― Georgia Clark, Parched

“I smile broadly, feeling as warm and full as the sun.”
― Georgia Clark, Parched

“Love lifts you up where we belong, but it can also break you into teeny, tiny pieces, and then you need your best friend and a bunch of wine to put you back together again.”
― Georgia Clark, The Regulars

“Men were always hungry. And they expected to be fed.”
― Georgia Clark, The Regulars

“There’s no such thing as ugly.”
― Georgia Clark, The Regulars

“A mix of revenge, sadness and anger funnels into a decision that’s so simple and neat, it could fit in my pocket. I will help Kudzu destroy Aevum. Just like Magnus destroyed my mother.”
― Georgia Clark, Parched

“Love,' she began, 'isn't out there waiting to hit you like a bolt of lightning. It's not something you capture or keep or make follow your rules. It's something you create, with another person. It's an act of will, and imagination, fueled by trust and perserverance. It's a practice. And it's possible for anyone.”
― Georgia Clark, Most Wonderful

“I didn’t know she was a lady of the labia.”
― Georgia Clark, Most Wonderful: A Christmas Novel

“Her mouth connected with his. Everything inside her collapsed and was constructed, simultaneously.”
― Georgia Clark, The Regulars

“What do you think Amy Poehler is doing right now?”
― Georgia Clark, The Regulars

“I catch movement from the corner of my eye. A tell slender boy stands near us, just a few feet away. Adrenaline bangs through my system. I shove Abel behind me and whip my knife from where I’d hidden it in my boot. “Who the hell are you?”
― Georgia Clark

“She was a professional. A professional who didn’t need five inches of makeup and f*ck-me cleavage to do her job.”
― Georgia Clark, The Regulars

“For those who create, seek, or champion queer joy”
― Georgia Clark, Most Wonderful

“We. Had. Sex. So the least you can do is acknowledge my existence. Because that’s what grown-ups do. Common. F*cking. Courtesy.”
― Georgia Clark, The Regulars

“Sometimes it's good to do things that scare you.”
― Georgia Clark, Most Wonderful

“I’m using beauty to subvert the system.”
― Georgia Clark, The Regulars

“We need role models who look like real girls.”
― Georgia Clark, The Regulars

“In New York, everything was permissible. No one cared what you wore, how you looked. Only you cared about those things. And if they didn’t worry you, then they didn’t matter.”
― Georgia Clark

“She was a road trip without a map.”
― Georgia Clark, The Regulars

“Despite what those on the happily coupled sidelines might think, 99 percent of online dates weren't exciting enough to be fun or nerve-racking enough to be adventurous. They were just...awkward. Boring. An hour of small talk with someone you'd think twice about saving from a burning building. Online dating was like Russian roulette. Mostly misses. But sometimes, people Evie knew had met that all-too-rare bullet: a smart, aesthetically pleasing New Yorker who was still single. Maybe tonight, Evie thought, is the night I blow my brains out.”
― Georgia Clark, The Regulars

“I can almost see the processes whirrling clunkily in his singularix, as his excited nervous system battled with his logic circuits.”
― Georgia Clark, Parched

“Out here we speak Malspeak, a mangle of English and old languages like Spanish, Mandarin, and Russian. Dialects from a time when the land was defined by many borders. Now there’s only one that matters. And I am on the wrong side of it.”
― Georgia Clark, Parched