Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls Quotes

“I was like a turd inside someone who'd accidentally swallowed an engagement ring: I was nothing, yet I carried something uniquely special.”
― Alissa Nutting, Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls

“A lot of people who know about the view from the tip-top of a bridge or tall building are dead, because they climbed up in order to jump off. But sometimes I wonder if they truly planned on jumping or if the view was just so beautiful that they realized what a wide big net beauty is, and then wanted so badly to be caught by it.”
― Alissa Nutting, Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls

“When you’re a ghost, not haunting is like trying not to laugh. It tickles and pushes until it hurts. Of course there are a lot of boring ghosts who find it easy not to haunt. In the afterlife, so much is boring.”
― Alissa Nutting, Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls: Breathtakingly Surreal Feminist Short Stories – Dark Comedy

“Aliens struck me as being rather goth. Luckily, in the daylight, there could be no more effective goth repellent than our home’s hideous furnishings. We had 1970s green and yellow linoleum floors. Neon orange and brown, scratchy, wool plaid furniture. And on the living room wall, a huge, earnest painting of two raccoons someone had made while serving a prison sentence.”
― Alissa Nutting, Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls: Breathtakingly Surreal Feminist Short Stories – Dark Comedy

“Aliens struck me as being rather goth.”
― Alissa Nutting, Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls: Breathtakingly Surreal Feminist Short Stories – Dark Comedy

“How can I wear a leather suit that does not carry the stains of wine and blood?" asks CT, and Gustav does not answer; of course it was rhetorical”
― Alissa Nutting, Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls

“Her breasts have a soft expanding look about them, like rising bread.”
― Alissa Nutting, Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls

“Why am I always the nerd at the party? I am in my thirties and by now I should at least know how to pretend.”
― Alissa Nutting, Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls

“I take my old seat by the window and start rapidly boozing. The lights change colors in ways that suggest I'm going too fast, and that is the speed I want to go.”
― Alissa Nutting, Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls

“He resembles a postapocalyptic hummingbird who has to fly around with its own personal glass vase of nectar attached to its face since all the flowers are dead.”
― Alissa Nutting, Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls: Breathtakingly Surreal Feminist Short Stories – Dark Comedy

“If James Earl Jones yodeled into the universe’s vagina, Guff’s voice is the noise that would echo back.”
― Alissa Nutting, Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls: Breathtakingly Surreal Feminist Short Stories – Dark Comedy