Gabrielle Hamilton Quotes

I’m not afraid of the real truth. There is nothing you can tell me about yourself that is going to make me clutch my pearls.

How can it be, after all this concentrated effort and separation, how can it be that I still resemble, so very closely, my own detestable mother?

Be careful what you get good at doin', cuz you'll be doin' it for the rest of your life.

You are always going to face forces that can bring you to your knees.

I was purely content to sit in the car and wander around my own mind. Watching the world itself, the people in it, and my whole internal life was more than enough to keep me entertained.

My father has said a hundred times, and I have paid attention, that it's stupid to let money be the reason you don't do something.

Badass is a juvenile aspiration.

My parents seemed incredibly special and outrageously handsome to me then.

This is the crepe. This is the cider. This is how we live and eat.

I knew that I did not want to go to that juvenile diversion program because I had an intuitive sense that it would turn me irrevocably into the kind of character that I was now only rehearsing to be.

[I] like to be anchored by routine, not shackled by it.

Alone on the terrace looking up at the stars I would not feel lonely. With him glued to the screen, I feel gutted...