25 Quotes by Alissa Nutting

My attorney rubbed his hand across his mustache and the corners of his lips several times, as though the allegation was a piece of cake he’d just eaten that had deposited crumbs all over his mouth.

Or perhaps he was skilled at foreshadowing. I’d imagine a pious avoidance of sin requires that.

A lot of people who know about the view from the tip-top of a bridge or tall building are dead, because they climbed up in order to jump off. But sometimes I wonder if they truly planned on jumping or if the view was just so beautiful that they realized what a wide big net beauty is, and then wanted so badly to be caught by it.

If she’d been smart enough to say, Your money is tempting but wow are you strange; I am too but let me just add that something does not feel right here. Something feels aggressively odd on a next-level realm I had not previously imagined, in terms of foreboding discomfort.

IV cart she had to wheel everywhere she went, its bag dripping a heavy fluid that was keeping her sick instead of making her better.

Like most pronounced flaws, it did not live in isolation.

Maybe lifelike mannequins were the way to go in terms of hospice. They could be tailor-made for this purpose – Diane’s full breasts could lactate morphine, for example.