Marie Still > Quotes

“I laugh, and I laugh, and I laugh. A cackle, really. Yes, that’s what I’m doing. I’m cackling hysterically because I am hysteria. So appropriate. This is what men used to lock women away when the women no longer served their purpose. Difficult women who no longer followed the rules. Women brave enough to speak their mind and to no longer mind their speak.
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― Marie Still, Bad Things Happened in This Room

“It’s so fucking confusing. But hate and love are so closely related. You can’t hate someone you don’t care about. Not that kind of hate. And when you love someone and they do something so horrible and terrible, the hatred infects every cell of your body and melts into you. It becomes you.”
― Marie Still, We're All Lying

“I spent my entire life running from my genetics, but they’d always been faster than me.”
― Marie Still, We're All Lying

“But hate and love are so closely related. You can’t hate someone you don’t care about.”
― Marie Still, We're All Lying

“Emma has disappeared or run away. Or perhaps she’s floating beneath the glassy waters of the Everglades, slowly spinning in an eternal death waltz with the seagrass. Her willowy body bloated, porcelain skin grey and mottled, and her shiny black hair now ratted and knotted around the roots of the cypress trees.”
― Marie Still, We're All Lying

“One day I was living my mostly perfect life, in my mostly perfect marriage, with my mostly perfect family. And then I wasn’t.”
― Marie Still, We're All Lying