66 Quotes by Lisa Taddeo

When someone suffocates you with what they believe is love, even as you feel your air supply being cut off, you at least feel embraced.

Women shouldn't judge each others lives, if we haven't been through one another's fires.

It's more than fandom when a story touches you so hard that you wish the characters were your family

Some people live their lives as if they are sure they are going to get another one. One more chance to be cool and popular or smart and rich and have a lot of sex. They act as if its ok to hang back on this one and merely watch it like a movie.

He's usually so quiet, but he's talking now, and when quiet people open their mouths the whole world listens.

The men noticed I'd stopped playing. Men are never okay when you stop. I had a fear of angering a man. Of not being amenable woman. I had the fear of being murdered. To assuage the guilt that I didn't follow up the flirtation by fucking them, I gave the movers each a tip of fifty dollars.

Some people, Maggie thinks, live their lives as if they are sure they're going to get another one.

The problem, she's starting to understand, is that a man will never let you fall completely into hell. He will scoop you up right before you drop the final inch so that you cannot blame him for sending you there. He keeps you in a dinerlike purgatory instead, waiting and hoping and taking orders.

Nobody died, so nobody cares