Quotes from book

Sharp Objects

“Sometimes I think I won't ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand. Three more days to get through until I don't have to worry about life anymore.”

“This is the unforgiving light of the morning, time to drop the illusion.”

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

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

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

“I've always been partial to the image of liquor as lubrication, a layer of protection from all the sharp thoughts in your head.”

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

“Safer to be feared than loved.”

“Daydreams can be dangerous.”

“A town so suffocating and small, you tripped over people you hated every day. People who knew things about you. It's the kind of place that leaves a mark.”

“I always feel sad for the girl that I was, because it never occurred to me that my mother might comfort me. She has never told me she loved me, and I never assumed she did. She tended to me. She administrated me.”