The best Quotes by Maxine Baker

Marcus: "My bike. It's gone. She took it."
Max: "So that's like Grand Theft Auto. Or Grand Theft Bike."

Ellen: "Ten minutes, or I'm taking away your phone."
Marcus: "Good. We're wasting our lives chained to these screens for our dopamine hits. Does it actually make us more fulfilled? No."
Max: "If I could have my phone surgically embedded into my hand, I would."

It's the worst betrayal since Jordyn and Kylie!

Abby: "I didn't want you to get hurt."
Max: "That's funny. That's what everyone who keeps hurting me keeps saying!"

Halloween is, like, the sexiest holiday. We can't stay in and watch movies like losers.

We celebrate a holiday that praises our success at genocide. It's a white celebration of colonization. That's not sadistic enough. We package it up with the image of a happy, smiling turkey. The emblem of the holiday is the animal that we slaughter en masse.

Max: "Welcome back, b*tches!"
Ellen: "Maxine, don't call Nanna and Pappy b*tches."

Georgia: "I'm worried about you, Peach."
Ginny: "Is that why your wrinkles are so pronounced?"

What do you care? You go through men faster than Taylor Swift.

You just called Britney Spears retro, so I have to go cryogenically freeze myself.

Ellen: "I quit being a mom. The hours are long, and the pay sucks."
Georgia: "No kidding! Austin still hasn't said a single word to me."
Ellen: "Oh, not mine. Mine talk. They won't shut up."

Max: "Fall in a ditch!"
Marcus: "Well, I already did that."

I'd do anything to protect my kids like no one ever protected me. Anything.

We're like the penguins. We can't fly, but maybe we can learn to swim.

Because you can't choose who you love. Your person is your person, and that is undeniable.

Through the lens is how the world makes sense to me.

Love. It's up. It's down. It's easy. It's hard. It's a motherf-...

Love. Everyone thinks love is so beautiful. Such a fairytale.

Of course I hurt myself. When you don't have a voice, you have to scream somehow.

Cool people don't say they're cool.

Life won't throw you parties. You gotta make your own!

The things you really need to fear don't go bump in the night. The things you really need to fear exist in us already. We're the monsters.

You can't fall in love if you always have your guard up.

Men are visual creatures, so give them something to look at.

What if all your dreams come true, and it's still not enough?

Love is a lot of things, Maxine. Safe isn't one of them.

For a woman, life is a battle. And beauty is a goddamn machine gun.

If I could skin you and wear your prepubescent face, I would.

It's about the fact that aging is a horrible, inevitable death sentence where your body betrays you slowly 'til you die.

I don't have a phone. I refuse to be a slave to technology.

We live in a world where losing your iPhone is more dramatic than losing your virginity.

No man or woman alive, magical or not, has ever escaped some form of injury, whether physical, mental, or emotional. To hurt is as human as to breathe.

When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed.

Halloween. The one day of the year it's socially acceptable to play dress-up. The only question is, who do you want to be? There are costumes to make men feel like boys again. Or turn little girls into queens.

Like all good things the witching hour must come to an end. True natures are revealed. Tricks are turned into treats. And taking off costumes is as much fun as putting them on. Except for little girls who forget that Halloween is only one night. They wear their costumes for so long pretty soon they can’t even remember who they were before they put them on. XOXO - Gossip Girl.

Ginny: "Don't flirt with the students or other parents. And, please, don't hotbox a classroom."
Georgia: "I only did that once."

Momma's dating life is like that desert - nothing in sight as far as the eye can see.

Max: "Halloween is, like, my favorite holiday other than my birthday."
Ginny: "Unless your name is Jesus, I don't think your birthday counts as a holiday."

I know about masks. Mine never comes off. Moving around all the time. I'm too white for the black kids and not white enough for the white kids.

Halloween is a chance for everybody to one-up themselves.

Lip: "Hey, whoa. You really think they deserve your hard-earned money for that service?"
Frank: "Dine and dash?"
Lip: "Bite and bolt."
Frank: "Eat it and beat it?"