Tell Me Who You Are Quotes

“For a minute I feel like shit about it. But here's the thing about feeling like shit: It gets tiring. I'm fuck-all exhausted by it, every day, making the wrong decision and saying the wrong thing and not getting a job and not being able to cut that goddamn hedge straight. Maybe this is just who I am, and everyone else needs to just deal with it, or at least give me a little bit of a break.”
― Louisa Luna, Tell Me Who You Are

“I don't respond, not even with a thumbs-up. Also privately thankful we've never been a read-receipt sort of couple. I'd be hard-pressed to think of any method of communication more passive-aggressive than read receipts.”
― Louisa Luna, Tell Me Who You Are

“Also, not for nothing, I've always been able to bluff, since I was a kid. Now they train children to do it in games like Two Truths and a Lie, to say nothing of the anarchic free-for-all that is Apples to Apples.”
― Louisa Luna, Tell Me Who You Are

“I guess I never realized what a little bitch she was. So rude, such a know-it-all. Some kids you meet, you just can't wait for them to get out so you can watch the whole world crush them to bits.”
― Louisa Luna, Tell Me Who You Are

“I didn't have an answer for him. It was just a thing inside me I couldn't control. I wanted to be happy, but I was scared to death. I couldn't explain all this to him, about girls, how we spend our whole lives doing evasive maneuvers away from what happened to us in childhood just to make something. Write something. Make a career like you have.”
― Louisa Luna, Tell Me Who You Are

“The rich gossiping mom is a cliche for a reason; however, I think nine of ten rich gossiping moms are doing it not out of avarice but instead out of anxiety. It starts when the kids are little, with rashes and tantrums and weird poop rituals; then the kids get older and are they just sensitive or do they have sensory issues; ADHD or just impatient; and then just when they have that all figured out the kids hit puberty, and all bets are off; the the haunting refrain reaches a fever pitch: Is this normal? Is my kid normal? Will he be okay? Will I be okay?”
― Louisa Luna, Tell Me Who You Are

“He is a good artist, not a great one, but that hasn't stopped him from selling pieces, because he acts like he's great. Except to him he's not acting. In addition to some cultural entitlement and the whole man's-world thing, he also has a blind and unfailing self-confidence. He is the kind of man other men hate when they find they can't pull off the same thing.”
― Louisa Luna, Tell Me Who You Are

“But I knew this was part of it going in - the small talk, that's business, business is personal, that's what no one tells you when you're starting out, that all the parts of your life actually relate to each other.”
― Louisa Luna, Tell Me Who You Are