"The more I did it-the more it owned……" — Megan Abbott
"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, into backbone, ribs, collarbone, neck held high. It was something. Don't say it wasn't."
—
Megan Abbott
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
10 Quotes by Megan Abbott
Megan Abbott has 10 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
Thrilling, illuminating, heart-pounding. Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy reads like a crackling espionage novel and resonates as only the most compelling…
-
Because they do burn leaves here, the older folks do, and I remember now that I love it and always…
-
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…
-
I think there are two prevailing views of the suburbs in the States: either they're this sort of tedious place,…
-
I wrote my graduate thesis at New York University on hard-boiled fiction from the 1930s and 1940s, so, for about…
-
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…
-
If it hadn't been what it was, it would've been beautiful.
See all 10 quotes by Megan Abbott »
More Backbone Quotes
This quote is filed under Backbone Quotes,
one of 174 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
Small business is the backbone of our economy. I'm for big business, too. But small business is where the jobs…
— Michele Bachmann
-
I know a lot of shows are like, 'Here's the pages,' right before they start filming. I'd have a heart…
— Alan Ball
-
So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone.
— John Perry Barlow
-
It is high time for some congressional oversight backbone.
— Bob Barr
-
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
— William J. H. Boetcker
-
My parents are my backbone. Still are. They're the only group that will support you if you score zero or…
— Kobe Bryant
-
Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities.
— Tom Allen
-
The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
— Carl von Clausewitz
-
Hardy, I do believe they have done it at last... my backbone is shot through.
— Horatio Nelson
-
No law can give Congress a backbone if it refuses to stand off as the coequal branch the Constitution made…
— Trey Gowdy
-
The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those…
— W G Sebald
-
To succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith.
— B. C. Forbes
See all 174 Backbone Quotes »