Luckiest Girl Alive
Jessica Knoll
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Moving on doesn’t mean you don’t talk about it. Or hurt about it. It’s always going to hurt,”
“All my life, I’ve found it difficult to advocate for myself, to ask for what I want. I fear burdening people so much.”
“My favorite strategy is to feign inferiority and encourage my enemy’s arrogance.”
“Sometimes I feel like a windup doll, like I have to reach behind and turn my golden key to produce a greeting, a laugh, whatever the socially acceptable reaction should be.”
“But faith doesn’t mean that to me anymore. Now it means someone seeing something in you that you don’t, and not giving up until you see it too.”
“By the end of it all I just assumed no one ever told the truth, and that was when I started lying too.”
“It was one of those awful moments where you have no control over your reaction, when the pain is too exposed to hide.”
“This is Luke’s favorite thing to say about me, to remind me. I’m a survivor. It’s the finality of the word that bothers me, its assuming implication. Survivors should move on. Should wear white wedding dresses and carry peonies down the aisle and overcome, rather than dwell in a past that can’t be altered. The word dismisses something I cannot, will not, dismiss.”
“I thought that by twenty-eight I could stop trying to prove myself and relax already. But this fight just gets bloodier with age.”
“That would be the most surprising lesson I’d learn at Bradley: You only scream when you’re finally safe.”
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