Molly Greene > Quotes

“had agreed to tail a husband who, according to his wife, was acting like a dedicated foodie at an all-you-can-eat buffet. Apparently his favorite entree was big-busted babes. And since”
― Molly Greene, Paint Me Gone

“I hadn’t quite figured out that no one can make you happy. You have to do it for yourself.”
― Molly Greene, Mark of the Loon

“It’s like having children. Your life experience might tell you that a choice they’ve made is going to bring them heartache, and you want to keep them from feeling any pain. But you can’t do that. Sometimes you have to stand back and let them walk their path. That’s how people grow. You can’t do the growing for them. Loyalty is allowing someone to make their own choices and loving them through that and the”
― Molly Greene, A Thousand Tombs

“Perfect, it was wine-thirty. She rose and popped the cork on a bottle of merlot, then carried a full glass back to the couch and resumed her prone position, only lifting her head now and again to take a sip. Life is good.”
― Molly Greene, Paint Me Gone

“Gen said. “But sometimes our past acts as a filter.” “What do you mean?” “Past experiences affect our interpretation of current events.”
― Molly Greene, The Last Fairytale

“a sign, anticipating when the other shoe would drop. It didn’t matter. Killing time had never been”
― Molly Greene, Paint Me Gone

“No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself.   ~ Plato”
― Molly Greene, Swindle Town

“in”
― Molly Greene, Swindle Town

“thoughtless pre-adult decision had been a catharsis, guiding him on to better things. Strange, the way a crisis so often changed the course of a life. She wondered if a silver lining existed in all of this.”
― Molly Greene, Lock the Cellar Door

“flat palm,”
― Molly Greene, Swindle Town

“Age had slithered in, feigning friendship, only to swathe her body in this clever disguise. Time was always the victor. She”
― Molly Greene, Mark of the Loon

“jell”
― Molly Greene, Swindle Town

“I read somewhere long ago that you can use your pain to grow bitter, or better. Every loss reveals what is truly important.” “And”
― Molly Greene, Mark of the Loon

“predicament. Gen chalked it”
― Molly Greene, A Thousand Tombs

“It was Mack.”
― Molly Greene, Swindle Town

“When had her body grown so stiff? It seemed only yesterday she could kneel in the beds and plant bulbs for hours. Today she was an old woman with gnarled fingers and a face that was a wrinkled caricature of the familiar.”
― Molly Greene, Mark of the Loon

“Standard exercise methods didn’t blow her skirt up. Swimming was a bore. Cycling was downright dangerous. Working out in a gym was a horror, and jogging was a pain.”
― Molly Greene, Paint Me Gone

“All the glory of your life as you wish it to be lies before you.”
― Molly Greene, Mark of the Loon

“We each encounter forks in the road, some of them critical. The path we choose can turn us toward the light or the dark.”
― Molly Greene, Mark of the Loon

“a waist so small Gen herself could circle it with two hands.”
― Molly Greene, A Thousand Tombs

“Amanda”
― Molly Greene, Swindle Town

“you know what forgiveness means?” “What?” Gen asked. “It’s acknowledging that people have hurt you, but that you had a part in creating the experience. Forgiveness is letting go of the wish that our pasts were different than they are.”
― Molly Greene, The Last Fairytale