74 Quotes About Nicole-flattery

She should try to be gentler, less agitated, learn to make small talk in another language, or even her own language. Become someone a boy might want to touch. It seemed as if her whole life, from the age of thirteen onwards, had been geared towards that rotten desire and now the world had come up with a genius way of punishing her.

It was fun, he explained, it was good, but to be the best you had to keep practicing and what was the point?

My phone was more real to me than the people I encountered.

My main trouble, my sister declared, was that I always lived my life like I was immediately planning on leaving it.

Stuff tied them to the world in a way I had no inclination for. I guess because I never expected to be here too long.

Over us, like a threat, hung a painted, shimmering sky.

The problem was people asked boring questions and when they asked boring questions, I gave boring answers. But if someone had asked, even once, the right question, I would have told the truth.

I couldn't hold down furniture and I couldn't hold down people. It all just peeled away from me.

Despite everything we had done to each other, we remained close.