How the Hula Girl Sings Quotes

“Maybe that's why people have friends at all. Not because they like them so much but because they don't make them feel so much worse.”
― Joe Meno, How the Hula Girl Sings: A Novel

“Those days were like a crown of gold over her head. Her hair was a knotted nest of some tiny white and yellow flowers with little bluebells wrapped inside her curls. Maybe she’d bring him a sandwich or a bottle of Coca-Cola, all cold and full of beads of ice along the side. Wasn’t it all so pretty? Wasn’t it all so nice?”
― Joe Meno, How the Hula Girl Sings

“Slow as your own dubious grace.”
― Joe Meno, How the Hula Girl Sings: A Novel

“Go to a goddamn priest if you wanna be lied to. I've seen too many of your kind slip back inside to fool myself. If you wanna think you're a new man, hell, that's fine. But don't think you're looking any different in anyone else's mind.”
― Joe Meno, How the Hula Girl Sings: A Novel

“A place of a king of quiet villainy and secret lust. A place where the dirty dreams of every twelve-year-old man-child were visible on the bus station’s bathroom walls in hand-scrawled tattoos of ladies with oversized breasts and inappropriate female genitalia, inaccurately portrayed as a singularly dangerous triangle of doom. Those kinds of drawings set me up for a world of confusion.”
― Joe Meno, How the Hula Girl Sings

“A fragrance of cold rose petals and copper. Like flowers in your bloody throat.”
― Joe Meno, How the Hula Girl Sings