Kelsey Cox > Quotes

“I’ve always hated flowers. The ratio of sentiments is all wrong, like an equation that doesn’t balance: Hey, I know you’re devastated right now, so here’s some pointless, pretty dead things.”
― Kelsey Cox, Pretty Dead Things

“parents get old so slowly”
― Kelsey Cox, Pretty Dead Things

“I wonder what it would be like to not constantly worry what others might be thinking. To be comfortable in my own skin, instead of falling over myself to make sure everyone else is comfortable in theirs. I wonder what I actually am underneath, without this skin—”
― Kelsey Cox, Pretty Dead Things

“We’ve been friends for nearly three decades”
― Kelsey Cox, Pretty Dead Things

“I didn’t care what she wore. I cared about the why. I didn’t like that she looked at her closet”
― Kelsey Cox, Pretty Dead Things

“The beauty is an illusion, and also a warning: there’s a dark side to beauty, as with poisonous butterflies. —Margaret Atwood, “Alphinland”
― Kelsey Cox, Pretty Dead Things