“She was faster than a secret spreading through a church picnic.”
―
Sarah Gailey,
Worth Her Weight in Gold
“The way I see it, you mostly stop loving a person the same way you stop respecting them. It can happen all at once if something enormous and terrible falls over the two of you. But for the most part, it happens in inches. In a thousand tiny moments of contempt that unravel the image you had of the person you thought you knew.” ― Sarah Gailey, The Echo Wife
“This time was going to be different. This time was going to be better. This time, I was going to be enough.” ― Sarah Gailey, Magic for Liars
“He was relieved to have told me. He transmuted his guilt into my anger and now I was the one who had to carry it and he had the audacity to be relieved.” ― Sarah Gailey, The Echo Wife
“People didn't stick because I was made of fucking Teflon. I'd always told myself that it was better that way, that being alone was easier. That I wasn't a coward for easing my way out of friendships before they could really start.” ― Sarah Gailey, Magic for Liars
“When there's people around that we don't trust, we let them think we're the kinds of people who are allowed to exist. And the only kind of Librarian that's allowed to exist is one who answers to she.” ― Sarah Gailey, Upright Women Wanted
“Why would you ever cut the blooms off the rosebush?It was one of the only truly useful things she ever taught me: Stress stimulates growth. Sometimes, in order to make something develop in the right direction, you have to hurt it.” ― Sarah Gailey, The Echo Wife
“Sometimes I don’t know what to say, and it never feels like it’s okay to not know.” ― Sarah Gailey, When We Were Magic
“Sometimes it feels like I’m in a staring contest with failure, and if I blink, I’ll die.” ― Sarah Gailey, Magic for Liars
“No one would look at the seams that held me together and guess that they were scars.” ― Sarah Gailey, The Echo Wife
“Affirmation and illusion, bound up tighter than two snakes in the same egg.” ― Sarah Gailey, Magic for Liars
“In my mind, I took what had just happened to my shoulder, and I put it into a box. A box with a tight lid. I dropped the box into a deep brick-lined oubliette. It landed somewhere next to my mother's last words and my searing loneliness and everything else I needed to forget, and just like that, I was fine again.” ― Sarah Gailey, Magic for Liars
“There’s no winning. Either I’m a bitch who needs to control everything, or I’m an easy mark.” ― Sarah Gailey, The Echo Wife
“I tried not to feel temporary. Just for a few seconds.” ― Sarah Gailey, Magic for Liars
“Even after everything--even with everything that was still between us, that would probably always be between us--she was my sister. I was born reaching for her.” ― Sarah Gailey, Magic for Liars
“I regret nothing: it was worth it for the hats alone.” ― Sarah Gailey, River of Teeth
“In the early twentieth century, the Congress of our great nation debated a glorious plan to resolve a meat shortage in America. The idea was this: import hippos and raise them in Louisiana’s bayous. The hippos would eat the ruinously invasive water hyacinth; the American people would eat the hippos; everyone would go home happy. Well, except the hippos. They’d go home eaten. Much to everyone’s disappointment, Congress didn’t follow through on the plan, and today America lives a cursed life—a beef life, with nary a free-range hippo within the borders of our country.” ― Sarah Gailey, River of Teeth
“I didn’t mean to kill Josh Harper. Really, I didn’t. It’s just that I was nervous and condoms are more complicated than I was expecting, and one thing led to another and— well.Now there’s blood everywhere and he’s dead.” ― Sarah Gailey, When We Were Magic
“Fucking Mages.” ― Sarah Gailey, Magic for Liars
“The way I see it, you mostly stop loving a person the same way you stop respecting them. It can happen all at once if something enormous and terrible falls over the two of you. But for the most part, it happens in inches. In a thousand tiny moments of contempt that unravel the image you had of the person you thought you knew.” ― Sarah Gailey, The Echo Wife
“This time was going to be different. This time was going to be better. This time, I was going to be enough.” ― Sarah Gailey, Magic for Liars
“He was relieved to have told me. He transmuted his guilt into my anger and now I was the one who had to carry it and he had the audacity to be relieved.” ― Sarah Gailey, The Echo Wife
“People didn't stick because I was made of fucking Teflon. I'd always told myself that it was better that way, that being alone was easier. That I wasn't a coward for easing my way out of friendships before they could really start.” ― Sarah Gailey, Magic for Liars
“When there's people around that we don't trust, we let them think we're the kinds of people who are allowed to exist. And the only kind of Librarian that's allowed to exist is one who answers to she.” ― Sarah Gailey, Upright Women Wanted
“Why would you ever cut the blooms off the rosebush?It was one of the only truly useful things she ever taught me: Stress stimulates growth. Sometimes, in order to make something develop in the right direction, you have to hurt it.” ― Sarah Gailey, The Echo Wife
“Sometimes I don’t know what to say, and it never feels like it’s okay to not know.” ― Sarah Gailey, When We Were Magic
“Sometimes it feels like I’m in a staring contest with failure, and if I blink, I’ll die.” ― Sarah Gailey, Magic for Liars
“No one would look at the seams that held me together and guess that they were scars.” ― Sarah Gailey, The Echo Wife
“Affirmation and illusion, bound up tighter than two snakes in the same egg.” ― Sarah Gailey, Magic for Liars
“In my mind, I took what had just happened to my shoulder, and I put it into a box. A box with a tight lid. I dropped the box into a deep brick-lined oubliette. It landed somewhere next to my mother's last words and my searing loneliness and everything else I needed to forget, and just like that, I was fine again.” ― Sarah Gailey, Magic for Liars
“There’s no winning. Either I’m a bitch who needs to control everything, or I’m an easy mark.” ― Sarah Gailey, The Echo Wife
“I tried not to feel temporary. Just for a few seconds.” ― Sarah Gailey, Magic for Liars
“Even after everything--even with everything that was still between us, that would probably always be between us--she was my sister. I was born reaching for her.” ― Sarah Gailey, Magic for Liars
“I regret nothing: it was worth it for the hats alone.” ― Sarah Gailey, River of Teeth
“In the early twentieth century, the Congress of our great nation debated a glorious plan to resolve a meat shortage in America. The idea was this: import hippos and raise them in Louisiana’s bayous. The hippos would eat the ruinously invasive water hyacinth; the American people would eat the hippos; everyone would go home happy. Well, except the hippos. They’d go home eaten. Much to everyone’s disappointment, Congress didn’t follow through on the plan, and today America lives a cursed life—a beef life, with nary a free-range hippo within the borders of our country.” ― Sarah Gailey, River of Teeth
“I didn’t mean to kill Josh Harper. Really, I didn’t. It’s just that I was nervous and condoms are more complicated than I was expecting, and one thing led to another and— well.Now there’s blood everywhere and he’s dead.” ― Sarah Gailey, When We Were Magic
“Fucking Mages.” ― Sarah Gailey, Magic for Liars
