Haley

“The air hangs thick with awkward static, like it usually does around the endless parade of therapists, social workers, and grief counselors. Does anyone feel comfortable in these tableaux of forced intimacy where you're meant to shine a light in your darkest corners for someone who is supposed to be nonjudgmental? As if there is such an animal”
― Jillian Lauren, Pretty

“Like people touch the feet of Jesus on the Pieta and hope for a blessing, I would touch the feet of the dancer and hope for grace.”
― Jillian Lauren, Some Girls: My Life in a Harem

“I know something about performing. I know that when it seems like the avalanche is about to roll over you, you face into it and keep both arms swimming as hard as you can. You smile and you sell it.”
― Jillian Lauren, Some Girls: My Life in a Harem

“Life is a constant series of cleaning up the last mess.”
― Jillian Lauren, Pretty