The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll Quotes

“She was a pixie, a fairy, full of imagination and in another world.”
― Jean Nathan, The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll: The Search for Dare Wright

“He had held out a handkerchief brimming with jewels, but she wouldn’t take them.”
― Jean Nathan, The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll: The Search for Dare Wright

“… ‘chaise lounge’ days, when, too tired to lift even a paintbrush, she would lie about nibbling candied rose leaves.”
― Jean Nathan, The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll: The Search for Dare Wright

“… a choker they made with a star charm hung from a black grosgrain ribbon - admiring herself in a heart-shaped Venetian mirror, wielding a golden tube of lipstick in her right hand and holding a bottle of perfume in her left.”
― Jean Nathan, The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll: The Search for Dare Wright

“If there was reassurance in being looked at, it was not the same as being looked after—or being truly seen.”
― Jean Nathan, The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll: The Search for Dare Wright

“Children read their favorite books to death, she said. They are careless in their devotions. They rip the pages, scribble, and spill things on them. And they are demon book thieves.”
― Jean Nathan, The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll: The Search for Dare Wright

“She told a story of being so fixated on the beautiful features of a playmate that she collided with a tree and skinned her own face.”
― Jean Nathan, The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll: The Search for Dare Wright