Lauren Groff Quotes
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.
a feminist is just someone who recognizes power structures that keep people from having the fullest life they can.
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.
Ever since the other boy had arrived half way through the semester, he'd been so blue, he was practically iridescent.
Best to distrust this retrospective radiance: gold dust settles over memory and makes it shine.
We have all had stupid youths, ' said Mathilde. 'I find them delicious.
Up rose the ghosts of parties, of themselves when they were younger, too dumb to understand they were ecstatic.
There is little that a puppy won't fix, even if the fix is for a short time.
We watched each other in the candlelight and suave music, and because laughter was the only weapon we had, we laughed until the chill of his story faded, and was gone.
He wanted terribly, to say, Stop, to say Bern’s name, to stroke her soft cheek where it was bitten by the light. But, in the end, he didn’t do anything at all.
