Cara Hoffman > Cara's Quotes

“This is shitty to say, but there's not much pathos involved in a case like that. Think about it: Little So-and-so the Fourth drowns himself Tuesday night after receiving his midterm grades in the school of civil engineering. The body goes back to Westchester, and a lounge in the library or a nature path gets named after him, and a bunch of blue-blood kids remember him fondly. Sorry. There's about one story a year like that. Poor Billy Fuckup, Jr., in his Gap khakis, the pressure of going to classes all day really got to him. If I were a better person, I would have felt badly having seen things like that.”
― Cara Hoffman, So Much Pretty

“'A man can only take so much pretty walking back and forth in front of him.' He said pretty like he meant something else.”
― Cara Hoffman, So Much Pretty

“How disposable is a woman's life? How expected. How unsurprising. How normal. How many times a week, a month, a year does that happen?”
― Cara Hoffman, So Much Pretty

“Sometimes she felt she had fallen asleep inside herself while she was wide awake working.”
― Cara Hoffman, So Much Pretty