Noley Reid > Quotes

“We turned red and clumsy with each other, shy for having believed we could be different, that we could be whatever it was we wanted.”
― Nicole Louise Reid, In the Breeze of Passing Things: A Novel

“We are in a permanent state of temporary.”
― Nicole Louise Reid, In the Breeze of Passing Things: A Novel

“Clint has this way of looking only at Vivvy when he talks, and I don’t know why but it makes my stomach feel homesick.”
― Noley Reid, Pretend We Are Lovely

“He was quiet. Like he was alone. And sometimes I wondered if he thought maybe he was.”
― Nicole Louise Reid, In the Breeze of Passing Things: A Novel

“I don’t know what to do for her, so I sing and whistle and make any kind of noise to distract her from what it feels like not to measure up.”
― Noley Reid, Pretend We Are Lovely

“I became optimistic in these moments of making another person so content; I began to believe love was possible.”
― Noley Reid, Pretend We Are Lovely

“Nighttime comes around me and I don’t quite own myself,” she whispered.”
― Noley Reid, Pretend We Are Lovely