Wilder Girls Quotes

“We don't get to choose what hurts us”
― Rory Power, Wilder Girls

“I think I’d been looking for it all my life
a storm in my body to match the one in my head.”
― Rory Power, Wilder Girls

“She’s never liked us much, not since she complained that there were no boys on the island, and Reese gave her the blankest look I’ve ever seen and said, “Plenty of girls, though.”
― Rory Power, Wilder Girls

“Some days it’s fine. Others it nearly breaks me. The emptiness of the horizon, and the hunger in my body, and how will we ever survive this if we can’t survive each other? “We’re gonna make it. Tell me we’re gonna make it.”
― Rory Power, Wilder Girls

“There's no room to feel bad. If I feel that, I have to feel everything else.”
― Rory Power, Wilder Girls

“Byatt’s carved her initials over and over. BW. BW. BW. She does that everywhere. On the bunk, on her desk in every class we had, on the trees in the grove by the water. Marking Raxter as hers, and sometimes I think if she asked, I’d let her do the same to me.”
― Rory Power, Wilder Girls

“It’s like that, with all of us here. Sick, strange, and we don’t know why. Things bursting out of us, bits missing and pieces sloughing off, and then we harden and smooth over.”
― Rory Power, Wilder Girls

“It's not love, to give your wounds to someone else.”
― Rory Power, Wilder Girls

“Some things don’t belong to other people,” she says, tired and drifting. “Some things are just mine.”
― Rory Power, Wilder Girls

“I miss the north side cliff and the waves below, and I miss the way the wind steals your breath like it never belonged to you in the first place.”
― Rory Power, Wilder Girls

“Usually, it was an accident. A lie I never set out to tell. A trick I never meant to play. I’d open my mouth, and something strange would come out, new and not mine. Like there was someone else inside.”
― Rory Power, Wilder Girls

“See how a body will change, to give you the best chance it can.”
― Rory Power, Wilder Girls

“I’ve spent every day since I met her telling myself the wrong thing. Telling myself over and over that she was cold, when maybe she was burning the whole time.”
― Rory Power, Wilder Girls

“Some days it’s fine. Others it nearly breaks me. The emptiness of the horizon, and the hunger in my body, and how will we ever survive this if we can’t survive each other?”
― Rory Power, Wilder Girls

“And I’ve wanted boys, and I’ve wanted girls, but I’ve never wanted anyone enough to miss them,”
― Rory Power, Wilder Girls

“I thought something of my old life would still be here. I thought something of us would have survived.”
― Rory Power, Wilder Girls

“A sparking. I know this feeling. Just before a flare-up, there’s a moment. Hard to describe, hard to pin down, but for me it almost makes it worth it. The pain and the loss, all of it a fair price for this. This strength, this power, this eagerness to bare my teeth.”
― Rory Power, Wilder Girls

“Because I think I’d been looking for it all my life—a storm in my body to match the one in my head.”
― Rory Power, Wilder Girls

“I should have seen it. I should have seen how she loves as hard as I do. Only I think it pins her down where it picks me up.”
― Rory Power, Wilder Girls

“It all feels forgotten, like we’re the first people here in a hundred years. No tire tracks left on the road, no sign this was ever anything but what it is now. We shouldn’t be here. This place isn’t ours anymore.”
― Rory Power, Wilder Girls

“Reese says my name once, just once. Stern and strong, and she believes I can do this, so I have to.”
― Rory Power, Wilder Girls

“For a second I can see it all laid out across her. The longing and the resignation and the betrayal, the sting of watching the island she loves steal the people she pretends she doesn't.”
― Rory Power, Wilder Girls

“We don’t get to choose what hurts us.”
― Rory Power, Wilder Girls

“I just hope they do it quick, put the bullet between my eyes. I won’t fight it—I’ve earned it, I deserve it—but please, don’t make me wait.”
― Rory Power, Wilder Girls

“I couldn't take my eyes off her the whole night, It was like she made sense, finally, in her father's house, with mismatched furniture and the back door thrown open.”
― Rory Power, Wilder Girls

“I’m still bitter,” I say. “Nobody ever gave me anything for my first.” Byatt laughs, her hands moving quick to open the soup can, and she gives me the lid. “There. My gift to you.”
― Rory Power, Wilder Girls

“Reese is trying, but she can’t get it quite right, because nobody’s Byatt but Byatt, not even the girl in these memories. There’s this place in her, somewhere nobody can touch, not me or Reese or anyone. It’s just hers, and I don’t even know what it is, really, just that it’s there, and that she takes it with her when she goes.”
― Rory Power, Wilder Girls

“She knew who she was and who I should be, and she fit right into all the places in me I couldn’t fill. Reese was different.”
― Rory Power, Wilder Girls

“Even when there’s no bread, there’s always shampoo.”
― Rory Power, Wilder Girls

“...like she needed to make sure I was happy before she could be too.... That's not how you fall in love. But it's close.”
― Rory Power, Wilder Girls