Brittany Sutich > Brittany's Quotes

“Vicodin, oxy, fentanyl, tramadol. I think I once took diet pills I found in my assistant’s desk drawer.” Patrick was half horrified, half intrigued. “Did they work?” “Did what work.” “The diet pills.” “You mean, did I get high?” “No, did you get thin.”
― Steven Rowley, The Guncle

“You love too much, my king.”
― Sabaa Tahir, A Reaper at the Gates

“The skeleton is not large. A child, a wooden horse clutched in his shriveled hands. Injured in the attack and left here, perhaps. Or maybe separated from family and abandoned to fend for himself.”
― Sabaa Tahir, A ​Sky Beyond the Storm

“Yeah, I’m all about world peace and whatever the fuck.”
― Chelsie Hart, Golden Hour: A Porch Bitches Novel

“Told me he wasn’t interested in this anymore. That he wouldn’t do this anymore.”
― Diana Elliot Graham, When We Were

“I can hear birds judging my life choices,”
― Diana Elliot Graham, Six Morning Kisses

“I hear it creak with memories I wasn’t prepared to think about now. Thanks for that, gate. Really helpful.”
― Diana Elliot Graham, Six Morning Kisses

“They say the grass is always greener, and from where I’m standing, it certainly looks like it.”
― Diana Elliot Graham, Six Morning Kisses

“I’m staring down the path at the brightly painted front door like it will magically open on its own.”
― Diana Elliot Graham, Six Morning Kisses

“Not that I’m timing him.”
― Diana Elliot Graham, Six Morning Kisses

“as I slouch into the booth they’ve built against the wall near perfectly positioned in the window. Seriously, creatures of habit. Sitting here is different than it once was, but I’m not often haunted by the ghosts of my past, unless of course one walks through the door.”
― Diana Elliot Graham, Six Morning Kisses

“Which given the radius I am from where so much of my formative life has been lived, isn’t an impossibility.”
― Diana Elliot Graham, Six Morning Kisses

“and I now occupy the seat that he used to prefer.”
― Diana Elliot Graham, Six Morning Kisses

“Last week, a young girl in light-up sneakers sat here with her grandfather and asked the question we’ve all wanted to know since the dawn of portraiture, ‘Why do they look so serious?’ she asked. ‘Because sitting still that long makes anyone grumpy.”
― Diana Elliot Graham, Six Morning Kisses

“Then there's the businessman who started showing up a few times a week during his lunch breaks after his divorce. For a while, he just sat in silence, staring at the walls like they might hold answers. I pretend not to notice when he wipes his eyes.”
― Diana Elliot Graham, Six Morning Kisses

“You know what kills me?" I say to the ceiling, to Mack, to the girls in the painting who've been listening to my problems for years. "When I applied for this job, I didn’t tell them, I wanted this, on my own, and when I got the offer I was overjoyed with a sense of accomplishment. I was sure it was the gallerist pun I made that solidified it. It wasn’t until I was leaving that I was told to ‘thank my parents’ for their latest contribution.”
― Diana Elliot Graham, Six Morning Kisses

“True, but I find coffee leads to fewer tragic endings," I say instead, wondering if she can hear the hope in my voice. "That's what you think.”
― Diana Elliot Graham, Six Morning Kisses

“Arden, objectively speaking, people don’t stay friends with their exes like you do. And they definitely don’t ‘casually text’ them about what is arguably the greatest romantic fumble in history asking for details about a sexual encounter that happened more than a decade ago… And now he's saying he didn't break up with you?”
― Diana Elliot Graham, Six Morning Kisses

“that feels fast.”
― Diana Elliot Graham, Six Morning Kisses

“Do you ever feel like you stumbled into the end of a novel? Just tripped into someone else's perfect life." "Not someone else's," he corrects gently. "Ours. Every bit of it.”
― Diana Elliot Graham, Six Morning Kisses

“When it was fresh, it was hard for me, but I wasn’t ready to let him go. So I pretended I was fine. He was maybe the only person who ever really meant it when he said, ‘We can be friends.”
― Diana Elliot Graham, When We Were

“We had never directly discussed it. We had never indirectly discussed it.”
― Diana Elliot Graham, When We Were

“My suitemate, Stella, should already be here, somewhere, but I can’t spot her. So instead of trying to find my friend,”
― Diana Elliot Graham, When We Were

“The Urban Outfitters graphic tee with an illustration”
― Diana Elliot Graham, When We Were

“I laugh far more than I ever actually mean to. Nothing is ever as funny as the frequency of giggles, chuckles, or faked hysterics truly implies.”
― Diana Elliot Graham, When We Were

“Paired with a shrug, I’ve offered up this stranger a taste of validation and indifference in one interaction.”
― Diana Elliot Graham, When We Were

“Now, to seal the deal, deliver the wit and tease that keeps people wanting more.”
― Diana Elliot Graham, When We Were

“I think it’s more likely you’ll be screaming for me...” His sentence hangs there,”
― Diana Elliot Graham, When We Were

“A test, I think–one I’m not only used to, but take pleasure in. The challenge of people being one of my most favorite games.”
― Diana Elliot Graham, When We Were

“Something I was able to make note of the second I saw him as it filled his glare, looking to me to feed it.”
― Diana Elliot Graham, When We Were