Third Wheel Quotes

Quotes tagged as "third-wheel" Showing 1-4 of 4
Sylvia Plath
“There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room. It's like watching Paris from an express caboose heading in the opposite direction--every second the city gets smaller and smaller, only you feel it's really you getting smaller and smaller and lonelier and lonelier, rushing away from all those lights and excitement at about a million miles an hour.”
Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

Soman Chainani
“Even fairy tales have limits," said Sophie. "Three people can't have an Ever After. Not without me being alone.”
Soman Chainani, The Last Ever After

Meg Wolitzer
“It wasn't easy to understand how the love between two other people could diminish you. If those two people were still accessible to you, if they called you all the time, if they asked you to come into the city for the weekend as you'd always done, then why should you feel, suddenly, intensely lonely?”
Meg Wolitzer, The Interestings

Talia Hibbert
“Jesus H. Christ. It's like drowning in a bath of hormones.”
Talia Hibbert, Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute