“Love was not something, I realized, that came to you from outside. I had always thought that love was supposed to come from other people, and somehow, I was failing to catch the crumbs of it, failing to eat them, and I went around belly empty and desperate. I didn’t know that love was supposed to come from within me, and that as long as I loved others, the strength and warmth of that love would fill me, make me strong.”
― Margo's Got Money Troubles
― Margo's Got Money Troubles
“Isabel wanted to not hear the words in the same way she could sometimes blur her eyes when looking at something - decide not to see it in full focus, decide to disengage.”
― The Safekeep
― The Safekeep
“I’m just saying,” Jinx said, seemingly more lucid now, “when you’re lost in the deep dark forest, the thing to do isn’t to get scared of the trees. You have to find your way out again.”
― Margo's Got Money Troubles
― Margo's Got Money Troubles
“And since she wanted to be good, she's always been careful not to care too much about money. Now she wondered if all those Disney movies were merely propaganda to keep poor people content with their lot. 'We may be poor, but we're the salt of the earth, we know what really matters. The rich are perverted by their hideous wealth - why, look at that Cruella de Vil!' But good or evil, even single dollar was power. Power to hire a lawyer, power to control how she spent her time, power to change her appearance, power to command respect. Power to be who she wanted to be.”
― Margo's Got Money Troubles
― Margo's Got Money Troubles
“When that grew boring, she scrolled Twitter, which was like being bathed in the dirty water of other people's thoughts. On Instagram, she was in a deep, deep ad loop.”
― Margo's Got Money Troubles
― Margo's Got Money Troubles
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