Katie Crouch Quotes

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

Katie Crouch

#2. A sword so fine must bear a name. It would please me if you would call this one Oathkeeper.

George R R Martin

#3. 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.

Katie Crouch

#4. Young men preen. Old men scheme.

Mason Cooley

#5. 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.

Katie Crouch

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

Katie Crouch

#7. 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.

Katie Crouch

#8. 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.

Katie Crouch

#9. 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.

Katie Crouch

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

Katie Crouch

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

Katie Crouch

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

Katie Crouch

#13. Suddenly I had a contract and I was earning lots of money.

Diane Cilento

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

Katie Crouch

#15. We all have our weaknesses, dear friends; so we must strive to be considerate of one another.

L. Frank Baum

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

Katie Crouch

#17. What is called common sense is excellent in its department, and as invaluable as the virtue of conformity in the army and navy,
for there must be subordination,
but uncommon sense, that sense which is common only to the wisest, is as much more excellent as it is more rare.

Henry David Thoreau

#18. We are all somewhere else, during.

Katie Crouch

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

Katie Crouch

#20. 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.

Katie Crouch

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

Katie Crouch