Show Them A Good Time Quotes

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Nicole Flattery
“On the Metro she thought about how easy it would be to step off somewhere else, disappear. It occurred to her that, for the whole of her life, she might never stop having that thought.”
Nicole Flattery, Show Them a Good Time

Nicole Flattery
“Afterwards, she felt stupid, like she had revealed more than she intended.”
Nicole Flattery, Show Them a Good Time

Nicole Flattery
“I was scared."

"Scared of death? That's natural."

"No . . . scared of everything else.”
Nicole Flattery, Show Them a Good Time

Nicole Flattery
“At that moment, I have to say this – my chest grew extraordinarily tight and I felt it was very likely that I was going to die.”
Nicole Flattery, Show Them a Good Time

Nicole Flattery
“He had several versions of his own past; all that remained consistent was how he had overcome.”
Nicole Flattery, Show Them a Good Time

Nicole Flattery
“It felt like intimacy, or as close to intimacy as we could get.”
Nicole Flattery, Show Them a Good Time

Nicole Flattery
“I'd been feeling the sharp deterioration of our love for some time.”
Nicole Flattery, Show Them a Good Time

Nicole Flattery
“How was your childhood?" "Not good," I scrawled and handed the questionnaire back to him.”
Nicole Flattery, Show Them a Good Time

Nicole Flattery
“It wasn't terrible but it was empty. It was one long flash of emptiness.”
Nicole Flattery, Show Them a Good Time

Nicole Flattery
“She would barely be recovered from one of these conversations when another would happen.”
Nicole Flattery, Show Them a Good Time

Nicole Flattery
“She wanted to prove something, prove that she was still complicated and interesting without a degree.”
Nicole Flattery, Show Them a Good Time

Nicole Flattery
“All these relationships ended the exact same way, with circuitous conversations and dully rational arguments, as if both participants were politicians lobbying for their own happiness. Denied even heartbreak and animosity, the modern emphasis was on the demonstration of respect, however insincere.”
Nicole Flattery, Show Them a Good Time

Nicole Flattery
“She continued doing the scrambling necessary to staying alive; working two jobs in the city, her personality dissolving into small talk. The cost of travel, the cost of lunch, the cost of being young.”
Nicole Flattery, Show Them a Good Time

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.”
Nicole Flattery, Show Them a Good Time

Nicole Flattery
“It was fun, he explained, it was good, but to be the best you had to keep practicing and what was the point?”
Nicole Flattery, Show Them a Good Time

Nicole Flattery
“My phone was more real to me than the people I encountered.”
Nicole Flattery, Show Them a Good Time

Nicole Flattery
“My main trouble, my sister declared, was that I always lived my life like I was immediately planning on leaving it.”
Nicole Flattery, Show Them a Good Time

Nicole Flattery
“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.”
Nicole Flattery, Show Them a Good Time

Nicole Flattery
“Over us, like a threat, hung a painted, shimmering sky.”
Nicole Flattery, Show Them a Good Time

Nicole Flattery
“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.”
Nicole Flattery, Show Them a Good Time

Nicole Flattery
“I couldn't hold down furniture and I couldn't hold down people. It all just peeled away from me.”
Nicole Flattery, Show Them a Good Time

Nicole Flattery
“Despite everything we had done to each other, we remained close.”
Nicole Flattery, Show Them a Good Time

Nicole Flattery
“I prepared what I would say. I would say, 'Hello, I'm a woman who needs help,' although I had worked hard my whole life to appear as if I never needed any help.”
Nicole Flattery, Show Them a Good Time

Nicole Flattery
“Here was my great, insurmountable problem, the culmination of all the lists – not everybody was going to love me. I didn't need everybody. I needed one person.”
Nicole Flattery, Show Them a Good Time

Nicole Flattery
“I hadn't moved on. I don't know how anybody moves on from anything.”
Nicole Flattery, Show Them a Good Time

Nicole Flattery
“But I don't like this. I don't like superficial connections with people.”
Nicole Flattery, Show Them a Good Time

Nicole Flattery
“Where all her other friends had disappeared to was a mystery she had no interest in solving.”
Nicole Flattery, Show Them a Good Time

Nicole Flattery
“He was in the early stages of grief for someone he had never known.”
Nicole Flattery, Show Them a Good Time

Nicole Flattery
“No matter how many times Angela thought That's not happening again, it happened. It happened and it happened. It was all over quickly, but it happened.”
Nicole Flattery, Show Them a Good Time

Nicole Flattery
“It's terrible when you get old enough to dislike your old friends.”
Nicole Flattery, Show Them a Good Time

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