Michelle Hart > Quotes

“Mallory realized this was how the woman was: she at once withheld and invited. The woman fulfilled so many of Mallory’s wants but left so many wants unfulfilled that the feeling of wanting in and of itself became desirable. There was an untouchable intensity, or an intense untouchability, to keeping a secret, to having a continuous crush, that Mallory wanted never to lose.”
― Michelle Hart, We Do What We Do in the Dark: 'A haunting study of solitude and connection' Meg Wolitzer

“You know,' Caroline said, 'there's this word in Japanese, boketto, which is when you stare off into the distance in such a way that you lose track of yourself. Sometimes I think we do that when we become too aware of ourselves, and it's our brain's way of saying, 'Let me be, let me rest!”
― Michelle Hart

“I’m afraid of being alone and afraid that is the only way I know how to be.”
― Michelle Hart

“I don't think I'm a very lovable person either.' She wanted the woman to tell her she was, to tell her she could be. But the woman said, 'No one is lovable at your age.”
― Michelle Hart

“She felt awful around other people; in a crowd, or even with just one other person, she would become convinced she was not capable of enjoying things to the same degree that everyone else seemed to enjoy them.”
― Michelle Hart

“She was someone else, and what was happening was not real. She’d thought that things like this did not happen to girls like her, though maybe they did. A teacher in grade school had told her that if she went looking for trouble, trouble would find her, and Mallory wondered now whether this was the point at which she and trouble met in the middle”
― Michelle Hart

“Many nights she had been kept awake by the thought that their relationship meant something different or held less weight for the woman than it did for her. This was almost certainly true, Mallory knew, yet it still stung.”
― Michelle Hart