Megan Abbott
Quotes by Megan Abbott
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I still feel like teenage girls are not taken seriously by the culture at large, especially not their darker or more complicated feelings— of aggression, desire, ambition. To me, these feelings and drives are so fundamental to girlhood and to womanhood, and I love exploring them. And trying to give voice to them as best I can. I think women are always trying to figure out their own adolescence. We never stop.
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She wasn't just a B-girl, she was carrying the whole ugly world in her eyes.
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This girl, this girl, and he a man with a business and a secretary and a house with a furnace and bills and a son and a roof with three shingles and a pretty birdpath made of stone that I sometimes see Mrs.Shaw, her tied back with a scarf, cleaning with a dainty skimmer.How does this man, a man like this, like any of them, come to walk at night and stand in a girl's backyard, and then, smoking and looking up, suddenly feel himself helpless to bher bright magic?
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...there's a hundred ways sex can ruin you but there's no end to the ways love can.
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...like my own granddad used to say, if you get down to the nub of it, people don't change.That's not true, Katie thought. Not at all. Everyone changed, all the time. That was what was so hard.
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Things can get pretty rough out there, he says. Can't they? For you girls? You're all a bunch of warriors, aren't you? Lionhearted.
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It is simple as this: she has a complicated life and her clothes can't help but show it. It is all part of her unique disheveled glamour.
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It is not aloofness, superiority. It's a protection. Who in this ravaged battlefield doesn't want to gather close her comrades?
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...there's a hundred ways sex can ruin you but there's no end to the ways love can.
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It is not aloofness, superiority. It's a protection. Who in this ravaged battlefield doesn't want to gather close her comrades?
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This girl, this girl, and he a man with a business and a secretary and a house with a furnace and bills and a son and a roof with three shingles and a pretty birdpath made of stone that I sometimes see Mrs.Shaw, her tied back with a scarf, cleaning with a dainty skimmer.How does this man, a man like this, like any of them, come to walk at night and stand in a girl's backyard, and then, smoking and looking up, suddenly feel himself helpless to bher bright magic?
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I still feel like teenage girls are not taken seriously by the culture at large, especially not their darker or more complicated feelings— of aggression, desire, ambition. To me, these feelings and drives are so fundamental to girlhood and to womanhood, and I love exploring them. And trying to give voice to them as best I can. I think women are always trying to figure out their own adolescence. We never stop.
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...like my own granddad used to say, if you get down to the nub of it, people don't change.That's not true, Katie thought. Not at all. Everyone changed, all the time. That was what was so hard.
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She wasn't just a B-girl, she was carrying the whole ugly world in her eyes.
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Things can get pretty rough out there, he says. Can't they? For you girls? You're all a bunch of warriors, aren't you? Lionhearted.
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It is simple as this: she has a complicated life and her clothes can't help but show it. It is all part of her unique disheveled glamour.
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I thought labs were such cinematic, spooky spaces.
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I think there are two prevailing views of the suburbs in the States: either they're this sort of tedious place, where everyone is the same, buys the same food and drives around in their little minivans, or the view is that the suburbs are extremely perverse in a humorous way.
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When 'Dare Me' was first in development, it was hard to make the case for why it'd be interesting to anybody other than teenage girls. It'd often be treated, like, on first glance, 'What is this? 'Pretty Little Liars?' 'Mean Girls?'' It never was that.
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I wrote my graduate thesis at New York University on hard-boiled fiction from the 1930s and 1940s, so, for about two years, I read nothing but Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, James Cain and Chester Himes. I developed such a love for this kind of writing.
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