Top 100 Kathleen Glasgow Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Because when we talk about addiction, we have to talk about collateral damage: the mental health of the kids and adults surrounding the addict. How do you live when your life has been upended by someone else’s health crisis? When you feel guilty about wanting to go to a dance, or be kissed, or go away to college, because right next to you, someone else is suffering?”

— Kathleen Glasgow

52. “I kept walking, but inside, I felt myself pause, just for a second.”

— Kathleen Glasgow

53. “There are things happening inside me that I don’t even have words for, and I usually have words for everything, even if I don’t say them out loud. A shiver suddenly breaks us apart. A sharp chill rushes through me, when just a second ago, I was warmer than I’d ever been. My teeth start chattering.”

— Kathleen Glasgow

54. “They make me... they make me think of being stuck somewhere? I don’t know, like weighted down, but then these patches...”

— Kathleen Glasgow

55. “Lupe Hidalgo is an eclipse. She slides over everything like a glamorous shadow, and even though you know it’s going to hurt, you look anyway. And I accidentally do.”

— Kathleen Glasgow

56. “Riley’s sway as he disappeared down the alley, I recognized it. It wasn’t booze. It was the thing that happened when a little too much got a little too messed up. They sway, it’s what creeps over a person when they’ve begun to empty out and don’t care enough to put anything back, to replace what has been lost.”

— Kathleen Glasgow

57. “It’s all right if you can’t remember. Our subconscious is spectacularly agile. Sometimes it knows when to take us away, as a kind of protection.”

— Kathleen Glasgow

58. “Everyone here seems to know exactly what they need, but I leave without a thing.”

— Kathleen Glasgow

59. “Things get away from you sometimes, and you can’t get them back.”

— Kathleen Glasgow

60. “It is a though he is spreading a veil of protectiveness over me, and I am greedy for it.”

— Kathleen Glasgow

61. “There are so many people who are never coming back.”

— Kathleen Glasgow

62. “Sometimes you need to open yourself to the possibility of the miraculous, Tiger Tolliver. Sometimes you just do.”

— Kathleen Glasgow

63. “Mickey holds up the soggy paper. DIE. Don’t you die.”

— Kathleen Glasgow

64. “I think Temple is wrong. I don’t think I’d dig that kind of art party at all.”

— Kathleen Glasgow

65. “She said,“Don’t be scared, little one.”

— Kathleen Glasgow

66. “Evan always used to day that it wasn’t that you couldn’t see that you should be afraid of, but what was right in front of you, in plain sight.”

— Kathleen Glasgow

67. “Oh, Leonard, I think. I’m in a heap of trouble.”

— Kathleen Glasgow

68. “This whole place is a world of sobbing girls.”

— Kathleen Glasgow

69. “Casper didn’t give me direction for what to do if somebody I used to really like-like, somebody who would be somebody good to love, somebody right, somebody who understood about me, turned out to not have the same ideas about me.”

— Kathleen Glasgow

70. “My own body is my deepest enemy. It wants, it wants, it wants, and when it does not get it, it cries and cries and I punish it. How can you live in fear of your very self? What is going to happen to us, Blue?”

— Kathleen Glasgow

71. “We could all probably be a little more benevolent in life. We all live here, after all. We all share the same mighty good company of the stars at night, and everyone deserves kindness, and survival. Everyone deserves to be seen.”

— Kathleen Glasgow

72. “I love you... Please let me help you.”

— Kathleen Glasgow

73. “Invisibility does that to you. Strips away fancy layers, leaves just the bones and blood. Just enough to get around.”

— Kathleen Glasgow

74. “My body is on fire all the time, burning me away day and night. I have to cut the black heat out. -pg 27.”

— Kathleen Glasgow

75. “You have to make friends with the dark.”

— Kathleen Glasgow

76. “Because when you’re hurt, and someone loves you, they’re supposed to help you, right?”

— Kathleen Glasgow

77. “How glorious it is to drown.”

— Kathleen Glasgow

78. “I wish you’d stayed longer. I had so much to tell you. I just know you would have understood.”

— Kathleen Glasgow

79. “I think of those photographs taken inside waves, the ones with surfers in slick suits on boards coasting through the tunnel of water, eyes wide. I think they must feel protected inside that curl of water, inside the sudden silencing of the world, even if only for a few minutes.”

— Kathleen Glasgow

80. “You can spot the girls who will have it easy. I don’t even have to describe them for you. You can spot the girls who will get by on smarts. You can spot the girls who will get by because they’re tough, or athletic.”

— Kathleen Glasgow

81. “All we can do is love him.” It’s out of my mouth before I can stop it. “But we always loved him and still – ” “Emmy.” He takes my hand. “It’s all we can ever do. It’s the one thing we cannot stop doing.”

— Kathleen Glasgow

82. “All superheros were sad kids. The sadness made them strong and then they rose up and helped people.”

— Kathleen Glasgow

83. “It’s not that I liked it or didn’t like it, but I felt safe there. I felt like I was in a little cocoon, almost. No more Mom, no more Dad. No more disappointing them and you. I felt safe. Like all the noise was gone.”

— Kathleen Glasgow

84. “I love you, Emmy, but you have no idea what it’s like to be me.”

— Kathleen Glasgow

85. “The young should not die before the old,” she says. “How dare you waste a life you haven’t even lived yet.”

— Kathleen Glasgow

86. “I’m alone. Everyone here has someone but me.”

— Kathleen Glasgow

87. “I’m in a place filled with girls who are filled with longing and I want none of them. I want the one I can’t have, the one who is never coming back. -pg 46.”

— Kathleen Glasgow

88. “I guess you can’t really get rid of what you used to be. It kinda sticks to you.”

— Kathleen Glasgow

89. “We might as well make some trouble together.”

— Kathleen Glasgow

90. “What we’ve done, no one will love us. Not in a normal way.”

— Kathleen Glasgow

91. “The insides of things are so much different than the outsides. Most people don’t care to find that out.”

— Kathleen Glasgow

92. “You own all of yourself, Charlie. Every last bit.”

— Kathleen Glasgow

93. “Everyone seems to have a grip on life but me. When is anything going to get better?”

— Kathleen Glasgow

94. “I did some truly horrible things that still make me want to puke with shame when I think about them.”

— Kathleen Glasgow

95. “I’m not a cold fish. I just don’t think I matter.”

— Kathleen Glasgow

96. “If you want to shave your legs, a nurse or orderly has to be present, but no one wants that, and so our legs are like hairy-boy legs.”

— Kathleen Glasgow

97. “Roar of ocean, swirl of tornado. I’m being swallowed.”

— Kathleen Glasgow

98. “A smart person once told me that life is working against us all the time, inside and outside us, in a thousand different and silent ways that are invisible to us, and there is nothing we can do about it. You just have to do the best you can and go on, and hope for the best.”

— Kathleen Glasgow

99. “We want to destroy ourselves in order to create. To see if that’s beautiful, too.”

— Kathleen Glasgow

100. “Sometimes your life falls to ash and you sift through, waiting for the pain to pass, looking for the remnants in the debris, something to save, when really all you need is right there, inside you.”

— Kathleen Glasgow