Marcy Dermansky > Quotes

“While I was not entirely satisfied with the circumstances of my existence, I felt like the possibility of improvement still existed. That I could make happiness happen.”
― Marcy Dermansky, The Red Car

“I was brand-new in San Francisco, right out of college, and I thought it was thrilling, a guy buying me a drink. I didn’t think, how tacky, this creep is buying me a drink. I thought, how amazing, I put on lipstick and a short skirt and look what can happen.”
― Marcy Dermansky, The Red Car

“And that is one of the problems of your generation. All sex. No romance. No love.”
― Marcy Dermansky, The Red Car

“Why was success required of a person? And once you were successful, life required you to do it again and again.”
― Marcy Dermansky, Bad Marie

“Judy shook her head when she saw me the next day, dressed in the same clothes I had worn to work the day before. “We used to call that the walk of shame,” she said.”
― Marcy Dermansky, The Red Car

“God, if she considered it, seemed awfully cruel and violent, blowing people’s houses down, washing out the coastline. Such a God, Allison was sure, would have to be a man, and not a particularly nice one.”
― Marcy Dermansky, Hurricane Girl

“His sister was a lesbian, but that didn’t make him decent.”
― Marcy Dermansky, Very Nice

“My husband’s girlfriend worked for an airline, but she was not a flight attendant, like I’d first assumed. She was an actual pilot. I supposed that made it better.”
― Marcy Dermansky, Very Nice

“She had never trusted police officers.”
― Marcy Dermansky, Hurricane Girl

“I was tall and biracial and sexy. But then there was Winnie. Her blond hair fell straight like a pane of glass. This was who my Jewish babysitter wanted?”
― Marcy Dermansky, Very Nice

“It made sense, that success would make you arrogant. I would like that for myself, a degree of arrogance.”
― Marcy Dermansky, The Red Car