Top 34 Meg Howrey Quotes
#1. I made the sympathetic face, and the interested face, and even the impressed face. I did not say, 'In the name of all that is holy, cease this incessant drivel, you pretentious ass.
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#2. It was that you had to be so careful with grief. Grief sought connections: it stacked, or swarmed. It was only the first time you experienced sorrow that it stood alone, with nothing attached to it.
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#3. The overture began. God! Strings! Oboes! Timpani! Are you fucking kidding me? Why, when we know what human beings are capable of doing, do we not turn our collective heads in shame at the sight of rich housewives screaming at each other on television?
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#4. And I had forgotten to get more Sweet'N Low, so I had to drink coffee as bitter as I am.
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#5. I tucked this thought inside me like a fortune into a cookie.
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#6. Sentences are trenches you can take cover in. They are not wildly comfortable. They are not bulletproof. But they can give you the illusion of safety.
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#7. There are Russians, and then there are Russian ballerinas from the Kirov.
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#8. Sometimes it's just better to suck up the fact that you are an asshole and decide that tomorrow is the day you will start being the person you intend to be.
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#9. I cannot bear this love. Nor the loss of it.
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#10. When you are asleep you can't tell whether or not you are alone, or diminished, or whatever. I have nothing, I thought. But that's not true. I have her absence. You can see it clearly. Look for the edges of my existence that surround it.
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#11. I suppose I do have rivals in the company, but none of them is as challenging as the ever-present, alternate version of me: always one giant unreachable step ahead.
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#12. And oh, yes, since I asked, there was someone else, but that had nothing to do with his decision, which wasn't really his decision, but rather something that was forced upon him by my behavior.
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#13. The only thing worse than taking things personally is being told you take things personally. And how am I supposed to take things, if you please? Why bother talking to anyone at all if you are not supposed to consider anything that is said to be at all personal?
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#14. Abstention, self-control, self-inflicted pain: these are forms of power - about the only kind you can have when you're a fourteen-year-old girl, by the way.
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#15. I realized I still wanted to dream about the person I would become, not actually be her.
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#16. Was there a magical love-of-the-dance moment, when the muse Terpsichore called to us and we lifted our arms and spun at one with the divine music of the Universe? I think not. Although pride and obsession can feel like love, I guess.
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#17. But Gwen got better that year. She seemed fine. She seemed happy, or at least not unhappier than anybody else. Who's happy?
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#18. If only we could crawl inside our dreams and live there. Why can't I live inside my dream?
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#19. I kept it a secret, which is the only way to maintain ownership of something.
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#20. By the time a little girl has become a young woman she has learned how dangerous a thing it is to dream.
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#21. She feels a little sad. Is she sad? Helen considers an alternative: She is dehydrated.
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#22. It's a moment to learn. This was the thing about miscalculations, errors, and mistakes. You admitted them, you used them as teachable moments, and then you moved on. You didn't forget, but you didn't dwell.
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#23. I wanted to get away. I wanted something of my own. I wanted to be someone's star.
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#24. When you step from the wings onto the stage you go from total blackness to a blinding hot glare. After a moment you adjust, but there is that moment. like being inside lightning.
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#25. Beautiful gay men are God's gift to women. They're like a consolation prize for ... well, for everything else about being a woman.
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#26. Talent equaled desirability. Talent trumped good looks or a halfway decent personality. Talent was a personality.
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#27. You shouldn't ask for forgiveness.
Because if you ask someone to forgive you, and they do, then that's twice that you've taken something from them. First the betrayal, and then the absolution.
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#28. But if life is what can be called the time you spend preparing for the event, and then dealing with how the event went, then what would you call the event itself? Is that not life? Is that not the best part?
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#29. Promise is a word like any other. Words can go in any direction. It's only the body that is incapable of lying.
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#30. Right away we were very good at it, and you like what you are good at, and being better than other people at something is fun. Is that love?
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#31. The love we have is never as desirable as the love we want.
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#32. I should think people would be disappointed if they watched that kind of movie and then came to see us dance and none of us slit our wrists onstage or made ourselves vomit or got on the backs of motorcycles while wearing tutus and started fucking each other.
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#33. Needing people and caring about them were two very different things.
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#34. Keep making noise, I prayed, laughing. Bang drums. Clamor and ring bells for I cannot stand to hear the tired beating of this almost heart.
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