Quotes from Kelly Braffet

Logic is what the devil likes most.

Nature has a pretty sick sense of humor.

To kill was to be doomed. To kill was to die, yourself.

It wasn't so much that I thought there was nowhere to go, in this huge city; but with so many places to go, where were you supposed to begin?

It all began to seem unreal, the chairs and the waiting and the dead girl at home in the closet.

Human beings suck the life out of everything that's beautiful.

The store was filled with hollow-eyed people standing in line: at the sandwich counter, at the soda fountain, at the register. All of them waiting, waiting, their hands full of candy, chips, cups of coffee, money. It was like purgatory, with snacks. Not just the customers; the employees, too. They worked the registers, squirted ketchup on hot dogs, piled limp lettuce onto flaccid lunch meat and waited for it to be over, waited until they could go home.

When you love somebody, you don't just give up on them when they do bad things. You fight for them.

Caro, you're a pretty girl, but I'd no sooner fuck a good waitress than I'd key my own car

Hate can be just as intimate as love.

Miranda rolls her eyes. "Passing over," she says. "That's nice. Is that anything like kicking the bucket? Keeling over, taking a dirt nap, biting the big one?

The only way to keep something pure is to keep it to yourself.

All he would say was that sometimes you have to burn it down and start over.

Did you ever, think when the hearse passes by, that someday in it you will lie?

You couldn't talk about the way things should be in somebody else's family. Families were like oceans. You never knew what was under the surface, in the parts you hadn't seen. Caro

It's not about danger, it's about control. Keep people scared and stupid and you can make them do anything you want.

Sex is just sex. It's everything wrapped around it that's the problem.

That was my brother: it was like he was his own species, one that had sneaked a couple thousand extra years in while evolution was looking the other way.

Anything that humanity does from here on out is a wave at the band as we leave the dance floor.

but my stomach rebelled anew at the sight of the separated chicken leg on my plate, the white knob of bone glistening through the cooked tendons. It didn't look like food. It looked like a piece of a dismembered corpse. Eating it, I knew, was a practical impossibility.

You think you're paying your dollar for a chance at the $6.2 million jackpot on Saturday, but really you're paying for the pleasure of the car ride home, deciding which credit card to pay off first and where your kid will suddenly be able to go to college.

The problem with hope, Anne finds through the years, is that it gets your hopes up. But hopelessness is worse.

Lately, she found herself thinking about Brent a lot, and for the first time, feeling angry. Because she had been twelve years old and all she'd wanted was a safe place, and now she was twenty-five and she wanted the same thing, and life shouldn't be so fucking hard, you shouldn't have to give so fucking much.

Families were like oceans. You never knew what was under the surface, in the parts you hadn't seen.