Lauren Groff, Fates And Furies Quotes

He got drunk as usual, but instead of drifting to sleep, he stayed up, and at a white heat, wrote what had been sitting on his heart for decades.

The balls it took to proclaim a creative profession, the narcissism.

There is little that a puppy won't fix, even if the fix is for a short time.

Struggle forms character

Only when she smiled at him was he finally able to relax.

Up rose the ghosts of parties, of themselves when they were younger, too dumb to understand they were ecstatic.

We have all had stupid youths, ' said Mathilde. 'I find them delicious.

He had become, after all, her home.

Struggle forms character. No struggle, no character.

Ever since the other boy had arrived half way through the semester, he'd been so blue, he was practically iridescent.

All she had ahead of her was the cold water, the slow ballet.

Perhaps living in fear can drive all devils out of a person.

Don't they understand what fiction is?

When your family dismisses you, like Lotto's did, you create your own family

What she did not tell him balanced neatly with what she did.

Mathilde and Lotto held hands in the taxi going to brunch, communicating, not speaking.

It was mathematical, marriage. Not, as one might expect, additional. It was exponential.

Doomed people celebrate peace with sky bombs.

Also the fact that he's a guy. A girl screws around like Lotto and she's like diseased. Untouchable. But a guy can stick it to a million places and everyone just thinks he's doing what boys do.

she'd played mother and wives. Women in narratives were always defined by their relations.

I like a bit of spunk in a lady