Megan Abbott Quotes

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• The more I did it-the more it owned me. It made things matter. It put a spine into my spineless life and that spine spread,…
• Thrilling, illuminating, heart-pounding. Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy reads like a crackling espionage novel and resonates as only the most compelling history can. Abbott brings to…
• Because they do burn leaves here, the older folks do, and I remember now that I love it and always have. The way fall feels…
• I don't really consider any of my novels 'crime' novels.
• I think it was Freud who said that we're all arrested at a certain age. For me, it was always 13.
• 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,…
• 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…
• There's something dangerous about the boredom of teenage girls.
• No, this is throwing up like coming off the tilt-a-whirl at age seven, like discovering that dead rat under the porch, like finding out someone…
• If it hadn't been what it was, it would've been beautiful.

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