#sharp objects quotes

“I'm tired of dying.“

“It infects you. It ruined me.“

“Sometimes it is all too loud.”

“Daydreams can be dangerous.”

“I’m just her little doll to dress up.“

“It’s safer to be feared than loved.“

“Isn’t a smile a girl’s best weapon?”

“What do you think? Is he gonna crack?”

“It's the kind of place that leaves a mark.“

“You were always so willful, never sweet.“

“Everyone has their own version of a memory.”

“I was never really on my side in any argument.“

“Sometimes my scars have a mind of their own.“

“How confusing to live in the shadow of a shadow.“

“There was a murder there. Another one’s missing.“

“To spend a life in dreams, that sounded too lovely.“

“I've waited for this for so long. For you to need me.“

“I was already tired of talking, and I’d said very little.“

“The body's a miraculous thing. Let them do its work.“

“It’s all too much for her, the cruelty of human beings.“

“Everyone has a moment where life goes off the rails.“

“A child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort.“

“I did feel sad, but articulating it seemed cheap to me.“

“Sometimes parents aren’t always… good for their kids.”

“It hurts me that you don’t trust me to do the best for you.“

“I gave you good stuff. You don’t want to burn this bridge.“

“The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you.”

“Your health is not a debt you just cancel. The body collects.”

“To refuse has so many more consequences than submitting.”

“Do you ever feel like bad things are going to happen to you?”

“Problems always start long before you really, really see them.”

“That's what I'm worried about. We're looking at the wrong half.“

“If you listen to all the talk around here, everyone's crazy or evil.“

“On some days, I find this thought calming; on others it chills me.“

“I would never steer a fellow sufferer from the relief of a blackout.”

“My demons are not remotely tackled, they're just mildly concussed.“

“I've always believed clear-eyed sobriety was for the harder hearted.”

“There was nothing I wanted to do more than be unconscious, again.”

“It's impossible to compete with the dead. I wished I could stop trying “

“I just want things to be nice with us, but maybe I just don’t know how.”

“Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them.“

“How do you keep safe when your whole day is as wide and empty as the sky?”

“Almost everyone cracks if you push them hard enough... even if they're innocent.”

“Sometimes I think I won't ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand.“

“Every time people said I was pretty, I thought of everything ugly swarming beneath my clothes.“

“Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom.“

“When a child knows that young that her mother doesn't care for her, bad things happen.“

“She’d always been one of those girls who wanted what anyone else had, even if she didn’t want it.“

“I just think some women aren't made to be mothers. And some women aren't made to be daughters.“

“What if, after you die, part of you goes to heaven, part of you stays here, just to see how things turn out?“

“Ah, well, being conflicted means you can live a shallow life without copping to be a shallow person.”

“My mama says all of history was written by men, so of course they’re gonna make themselves look good.”

“You know how people sometimes say they have to hurt because if they don't, they're so numb they won't feel anything?“

“Do you ever feel like bad things are going to happen, and you can’t stop them? You can’t do anything, you just have to wait?“

“I could picture a squabble of ghosts ripping through piles of newspapers. Pointing at a name on the page. See, there I am. I told you I lived. I told you I was.“