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“Alex saw very clearly how dangerous a book like Mary’s could become in the hands of such impressionable girls, such privileged girls: girls who kissed and fondled and laughed as they read each other passages out in the woods; girls whose parents’ social standing had taught them that there was nothing at all in the world they could not subjugate, purchase, or ignore; girls who set fires only to watch as others tried, and failed, to put them out.” (Plain Bad Heroines Quotes)
Emily M. Danforth
Plain Bad Heroines
“And so every day of my life I am playing a part;”
Emily M. Danforth
Plain Bad Heroines
“Answered Prayers Answered is a terrifically stupid title. So, so dumb. You don’t know how to write this book. You don’t even know if you should write this book. Certainly no one else is here for it. It might be wise to accept these as things that meaningfully indicate how unwise this idea is. Do better!”
Emily M. Danforth
Plain Bad Heroines
“As she lay there, she worried a thought. It was hard and unwelcome, like a popcorn kernel stuck in her gums, something she could run her tongue over”
Emily M. Danforth
Plain Bad Heroines
“But not properly dislodge. Not without assistance, anyway. Not without pointy instruments and blood and pulling it out into the light, leaving a wound behind.”
Emily M. Danforth
Plain Bad Heroines
“Death was certain, but it was not imminent.”
Emily M. Danforth
Plain Bad Heroines
“Don’t find yourself regretting this. You’re much too young to haunt your own life.”
Emily M. Danforth
Plain Bad Heroines
“Eleanor Faderman knew many books. But never before had she read a book that seemed to know her.”
Emily M. Danforth
Plain Bad Heroines
“Have lived my nineteen years buried in an environment at utter variance with my natural instincts, where my inner life is never touched, and my sympathies”
Emily M. Danforth
Plain Bad Heroines
“I like it so much better when nobody expects anything from me and then I surprise them by delivering anything at all.” “That bar’s so low you’re gonna stub your toe on it.”
Emily M. Danforth
Plain Bad Heroines
“I never disclose my real desires or the texture of my soul.”
Emily M. Danforth
Plain Bad Heroines
“I’d rather we didn´t speak anymore. Let’s just wait together in unhappy silence.”
Emily M. Danforth
Plain Bad Heroines
“Isn’t that what the swell of a crush is, after all? Recognizing the flush of truth in all the love clichés?”
Emily M. Danforth
Plain Bad Heroines
“She was not unhappy. But she was alone.Her parents had once seen so much of the world, they had lived in it. But when they’d taught her about what they’d seen and done, it had not made their child want to seek it out for herself. She was content in this cottage on her own land by the water.”
Emily M. Danforth
Plain Bad Heroines
“That version, as with so many of the stories we tell about our history, erased a woman- a plain, bad heroine- in favor of a less messy and more palatable yarn about two feuding brothers from New England.”
Emily M. Danforth
Plain Bad Heroines
“This felt a whole lot like phone flirting to Merritt, Readers, but judge as you will (because of course you will).”
Emily M. Danforth
Plain Bad Heroines
“Too much had happened that night, too much had happened before that night, and so too much climbed into bed with them, sat heavily upon them, and kept them up and thinking, even if they did not say the things they were thinking to each other.”
Emily M. Danforth
Plain Bad Heroines
“Troubling are the deaths of older people submerged in deep regret.”
Emily M. Danforth
Plain Bad Heroines
“Yes,” Harper said. “But tomorrow, when we’re done at Bo’s, come out with me.” When Merritt didn’t answer right away, she added, “I promise we’ll do something you can be all kinds of prickly about.” “I can be all kinds of prickly about anything,” Merritt said, glad to be back in the realm of sarcasm and deflection, sure footing for her. “In fact, I dare you to find an activity that challenges my ability to be prickly.” “Game on,” Harper said.”
Emily M. Danforth
Plain Bad Heroines
