Katie Crouch Quotes

#1. Don't you see?" she says. "I want your life to be better than mine. That's all any parent wants.

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#2. Well, we see what we want to see.

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#3. I watched, hoping she wouldn't come out too broke. It's all you can do for people sometimes, no matter how much you love them.

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#4. There won't always be a why.

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#5. We are all somewhere else, during.

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#6. We were all alive, and we loved and hated and lived brilliant, messy existences. The air is thick with our wanting.

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#7. You're going to have to go beyond yourself to keep him. That's a tiring thing.

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#8. Alex," Madison says through clenched teeth, "if you keep talking in bumper stickers, I am going to stab you in the face.

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#9. Without a bellyful of liquor, all I am is a woman who cracks stupid jokes to make up for being shy.

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#10. Intelligence, one hoped, could override jealousy.

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#11. It's important to love someone."
"Even if you can't have that person?"
"I think caring for someone is never a bad thing, even if the situation you idealize doesn't happen for you ... I think that anything that gets people through the day is a good thing."
"Like God?"
"Like God.

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#12. He doesn't bother to talk, and I don't either, but we look. We stare. And for a moment, I am sure of everything. For a second, with my bare feet on the fresh thick grass, there has not been, for any of us, even one mistake.

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#13. I wish I were the graceful sort. I was trained to be. "Never chase men or buses," my mother told me. "Another one will always come along." Still, I always run after the subway, and when men go, I follow.

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#14. If you weren't the prettiest, it paid to be the smartest, because you could train your mind to understand these things.

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#15. So yes, I knew how to dance. I just wasn't able to look at the person I was dancing with. A sort of glass cage fell over me, in the form of a distant, distracted smile.

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#16. I suppose there's a time in life when a garden of roses and lavender fails to blind a girl to the true shabbiness of a place. I myself had not reached that moment of clarity.

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