Ten of My Favourite Alissa Nutting Quotes
Quotes, who doesn’t love a good quote? This series of articles we look at Top 10 Famous Quotes by Author Alissa Nutting, author quotes are always a challenge and fun to pick, with Alissa Nutting you will find my Ten favourites of Alissa Nutting’s quotes.
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“It was nice to hear someone familiar. ‘How have you been?’ Hazel cleared her throat. ‘So I need to start networking a little, as they say. Do you have the phone number of anyone who might be looking to hire some help?’
I don’t have a phone,’ Liver answered.
Hazel felt her pulse speed up.
No phone? Of any kind?’ Her voice was nearly cracking with excitement. ‘So how do people get ahold of you? Your family? Your friends?’
I’ve succumbed to neither affliction,’ he answered.
What about women?’ she asked, admittedly changing her voice to be a little flirtatious. Hazel decided she’d misjudged him. Anyone getting through life without a phone had skills she wanted to acquire. Rare capabilities that attracted the new Hazel.
I just meet women in this bar. Mainly they use me to help them reach bottom. I’m like a brick they grab onto midair. Sleeping with me helps them admit their lives have become unmanageable. They realize they want and deserve something more, and then their recovery process can begin. I get laid in the meantime. Win-win.”
― Alissa Nutting, Made for Love
“Like most pronounced flaws, it did not live in isolation.”
― Alissa Nutting, Tampa
“I found that sometimes it was a relief to do something unattractive in private, to confirm that I’m deeply flawed when so many others imagine me to be perfect. People are often startled by my handwriting; because I’m pretty, they assume everything I do is pretty. It’s odd to them that I write like I have a hook for an arm, just as Ford would be startled to learn I have a hook for a heart.”
― Alissa Nutting, Tampa
“Do you know how when people are really hungry they will be driven to eat the inedible? Grass and soil and the like? That also happens with love. If you want love badly enough, you will start gobbling harmful substitutes like attention and possessions.”
― Alissa Nutting, Made for Love
“His eyes took in the details of my body with a conflicted gaze that I knew well: even having seen all the facts of the case, he still wanted me. He wanted me despite knowing what that meant about him.”
― Alissa Nutting, Tampa
“The numbers could never be as favorable as they were right now, when his naiveté would be subtracted from my expertise to produce the largest sum of astonishment possible.”
― Alissa Nutting, Tampa
“There was something repulsive (and revealing) about talking on a cell phone while handling garbage. Why did anyone pretend human relationships had value?”
― Alissa Nutting, Tampa
“I was like a turd inside someone who’d accidentally swallowed an engagement ring: I was nothing, yet I carried something uniquely special.”
― Alissa Nutting, Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls
“Sex struck me as a seafood with the shortest imaginable shelf life needing to be peeled and eaten the moment the urge ripened.”
― Alissa Nutting, Tampa
“Why am I always the nerd at the party? I am in my thirties and by now I should at least know how to pretend.”
― Alissa Nutting, Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls
10 Famous Quotes by Author Alissa Nutting
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“The screams echoing through Janet’s class were hard to bear. She was attempting a lecture on the Treaty of Paris while Mrs. Pachenko walked between the rows of desks insisting upon calm, raising a finger to her lips and whispering to individual students to please sit all the way down in their desks. In the back of the of the room, several kids were cheering as one of them, a young man whose shirt bore a flaming skull, stood hunched atop his desk like a motocross biker, sliding it forward in small hops. Students appear enthusiastic and are communicating well together, I wrote on the evaluation form.”
― Alissa Nutting, Tampa
