Michelle

“We’re very romantic, aren’t we?”

“Very,” he said, and kissed her again. “Let’s go home and be alone together.”
― Abbi Waxman, The Bookish Life of Nina Hill

“I want to be with you the way you are, the way you’re going to be, and the way you end up. Every way you are is beautiful to me.”
― Abbi Waxman, The Bookish Life of Nina Hill

“On the way to work, Nina felt pretty chirpy, and put in her earbuds and pretended she was in a movie, smiling at all the people who passed her and saying hello to the dogs. She had this fantasy a lot, that her life was like The Truman Show, that audiences all over the world were enjoying her playlist and hairstyle as much as she was. She would angle her face to the sun to help the lighting guy, or look over her shoulder to give the camera back there something to do. In public Nina was a quiet, reserved person; in private she was an all-singing, all-dancing cavalcade of light and motion.”
― Abbi Waxman, The Bookish Life of Nina Hill

“She sometimes made lists of things she’d already done solely so she could cross them off, which she couldn’t help feeling was pretty pathetic but strangely satisfying.”
― Abbi Waxman, The Bookish Life of Nina Hill