93 quotes found
Writer · American
American writer
“But isn't this a dance? Isn't all of this a dance? Isn't that what we do with words? Isn't that what we do when we talk, when we spar, when we make plans or leave them to chance? Some of it's chore...”
“Dumped doesn't even begin to describe it. If you're going to use a trash metaphor, incinerated is more like it.”
“My brother, Langston, said, Lily, you dont understand because youve never been in love. If you had a boyfriend, youd understand. Langston has a new boyfriend and all I understand from that is a sor...”
“Prayer or not, I want to believe that, despite all evidence to the contrary, it is possible for anyone to find that one special person. That person to spend Christmas with or grow old with or just ...”
“There's no such thing as ready, there's only willing.”
“Well, well, well, Santa said once the elf had retreated. Come and sit on my lap, little boy.This Santas beard was real, and so was his hair. He wasnt fucking around.Im not really a little boy, I po...”
“What's a slut?" I ask him."A girl who puts out too easily.""Puts out what?" I imagine Greer putting out dinner and don't understand what Iwan wouldn't like about that."Puts out, you know..." His fa...”
“Im looking for Fat Hoochie Prom Queen, I declared.He did not respond.Its a book, I said. Not a person.Nope. Nothing.At the very least, can you tell me the author?He looked at his computer, as if it...”
“I know its technically goodwill to all men, but in my mind, I drop the men because that feels segregationist/elitist/sexist/generally bad ist.Goodwill shouldnt be just for men. It should also apply...”
“I lost myself immediately in one of the books, only emerging when the phone rang.Dashiell? my father intoned. As if someone else with my voice might be answering the phone at my mothers apartment.Y...”
“Nick stands up and offers his hand to me. I have no idea what he wants, but what the hell, I take his hand anyway, and he pulls me up on my feet then presses against me for a slow dance and it's li...”
“These humansthey are cruel monsters. Liars. Deceitful. For the first time, I want to hurt them the way they hurt me. This is so unfair. My body feels numb, my energy spent, my mind deceived and angry.”
“When the time is right, when these feelings of rage and unfairness once again overcome me, I will not faint. I will fight.”
“I wanted to talk to someone. But who? Its moments like this, when you need someone the most, that your world seems smallest.”
“Somewhere between a friend and acquaintancea frequaintance, as it were.”
“We always see the worst in our selves. Our most volnerable selves. We need someone to get close enough to tell us that we're wrong. Someone we trust.”
“I mean, like most guys, you carry around this girl in your head, who is exactly who you want her to be. The person you think you will love the most. And every girl you are with gets measured agains...”
“I kind of hate Nick right now, too, but there's someone else higher on my list, someone I hate more than Saddam Hussein and any asshole named Bush combined, hate more than that fuckhead who cancele...”
“Beneath the water, I can know her. She was fierce, uncompromising. When she loved, she loved deeply, passionately. She loved the blue-eyed water god. She owned him. His heart.But then she felt betr...”
“Maybe your unspeakable defects give you power too?”
