Deborah Willis > Quotes

“We were talking about The Bell Jar, because we were sixteen, and we wanted to be depressed in New York.”
― Deborah Willis, Vanishing and Other Stories: A Governor General's Awards Finalist Short Story Collection About Absence and Moving On

“He knows solitude. He knows its pleasure and its power. He knows it is a home you can occupy.”
― Deborah Willis, Vanishing and Other Stories: A Governor General's Awards Finalist Short Story Collection About Absence and Moving On

“She wasn't the kind of girl who would come when called.”
― Deborah Willis, Vanishing and Other Stories: A Governor General's Awards Finalist Short Story Collection About Absence and Moving On

“We were raised on lentils, brown rice, Neil Young, and solstice celebrations.”
― Deborah Willis, Vanishing and Other Stories: A Governor General's Awards Finalist Short Story Collection About Absence and Moving On

“She was cruel and lovely and totally awesome.”
― Deborah Willis, Vanishing and Other Stories: A Governor General's Awards Finalist Short Story Collection About Absence and Moving On

“But his lack of artfulness is charming.”
― Deborah Willis, Vanishing and Other Stories: A Governor General's Awards Finalist Short Story Collection About Absence and Moving On

“This boy who made her feel like she was twenty again. Made her feel ridiculous, yes, idiotic. Made her feel crazy and awkward and wild.”
― Deborah Willis, Vanishing and Other Stories: A Governor General's Awards Finalist Short Story Collection About Absence and Moving On

“There is nothing like Betty Ford sex.”
― Deborah Willis, Vanishing and Other Stories: A Governor General's Awards Finalist Short Story Collection About Absence and Moving On

“If I were still a writer, I'd want to create something like Gatsby: a story ostensibly about love but really about soul-crushing decadence. Ostensibly about decadence, but really about love.”
― Deborah Willis, Girlfriend on Mars: A Novel