Home / Books / Give Me Your Hand

Give Me Your Hand

Book by Megan Abbott · 5 quotes · Blood, Childhood Friendships, Girlhood

Browse quotes from Give Me Your Hand.

Book detail: Give Me Your Hand is presented as a focused source page for quotations connected with this book, collection, transcript, or source record.

Browse quotes from Give Me Your Hand.

The quotes below use the same card format as the rest of the site, including topics, source notes, copy actions, image creation, and sharing controls.

Filter quotes by topic

All Blood Childhood Friendships Girlhood Intimacy Self Sex Women Work

Give Me Your Hand Quotes

“I didn't grow up feeling smart and special, the world my oyster, born with a silver shucker in my hand. No one works harder than you, that's the way Zell and Juwon liked to put it. Everything I have is because I was the dutiful worker bee or because I have no other things to distract me, like girlfriends or wives, like mewling kids or family dogs or a love of weekend brunches and fantasy football, or a single, sad hobby, like solitaire or the Sunday jumble. I have this.”

Book:Give Me Your Hand

Source: Give Me Your Hand

“The raw, ugly, mottled things you fear about yourself in your most private moments--what happens when someone says them aloud to you? The feeling like your skin slipped from your body, showing everything, red and veined.”

Book:Give Me Your Hand

Source: Give Me Your Hand

“Reproductive hormones and serotonin, stress hormones and neurotransmitters. The whole rickety biological pathophysiology of our women. The PMDD women, maybe all women. She sees the dangerous relays in the suffering body. She understands the mad pulses of the blood.”

Book:Give Me Your Hand

Source: Give Me Your Hand

“I learned the scariest part about sex wasn’t the swell and heave of body parts, its comic grotesquerie, but the shattering intimacy of all of it.”

Book:Give Me Your Hand

Source: Give Me Your Hand

“We were just a quivering mess of hard shins and soft flannel, of Sour Patch-fueled girl misery.”

Girlhood Childhood Friendships

Book:Give Me Your Hand

Source: Give Me Your Hand