Adele Griffin Quotes & Sayings

Sister Maria Martinez whom I believe I've mentioned before has been giving me cooking classes. Today I learned how to bake mean banana bread. The secret apparently is half a cup of dark rum. — Adele Griffin

And I didn't mean to shut her out, but sometimes I did it anyway. I liked having power. Power is its own kind of magic. — Adele Griffin

Not that I was morbidly obese or anything. But I guess I was hanging on the hope that one day I might accidentally whittle down to my inner toothpick. — Adele Griffin

She needs to make one phone call, and she wishes she could make it into her past. Into last year. Or two years ago. — Adele Griffin

Revenge is two wrongs that make a right. Julian did something wrong. What did you do wrong? — Adele Griffin

But he's got your way of making me lean into peace whenever I see red. — Adele Griffin

Aunt Clara doesn't take her eyes off her toast. Her delicate jet earrings tremble as her knife scratches at the toast like a cat's paw, buttering every inch. Strange how even the most mundane habits of dislikable people can strike such harsh chords. I even hate the way Aunt butters. — Adele Griffin

I love that I never know who I'm going to meet next in New York. Sometimes I imagine all these millions of kids who have come here like jeweled doorknobs marked "turn me." It's an Alice-in-Wonderland kind of city. — Adele Griffin

Peter and Jessie were like Romeo and Juliet. Have you ever seen that old movie? Starring Leonardo Dicaprio? — Adele Griffin

Fears are to be faced, not denied, and life is to be lived, not mourned. — Adele Griffin

This story in my head is too hot to touch. I grabbed it anyway. — Adele Griffin

Or maybe I was just in progress. Hatching another character for another extraordinary story, yet untold. — Adele Griffin

Never feel like you need to visit him, ever?"
"I see him every morning in the mirror. I think of him as the ghost version of me. And who needs to visit your own ghost? — Adele Griffin

The fastest journey is achieved on foot — Adele Griffin

What are you burning?" On a glance, just some papers.
"I write in a journal." He spoke below his breath, so that his words weren't quite for me. "Because I like to see everything written down. So that I know it really happened. That I wasn't just making it up. Then I read it and memorize it. And then I have to destroy the hard evidence."
I thought of my own journal, the muddle of every page. All those unfiltered, lunatic letters to Sean Ryan.
"What is it, exactly, that you need to destroy?"
"Everything that I don't want to be true. — Adele Griffin

It's strange how so much life can be lived without speaking — Adele Griffin