Two Nick Nowak Novellas Quotes

“Nice people always make me want to do bad things.”
― Marshall Thornton, Two Nick Nowak Novellas

“He'd already identified me as a heathen, and I hoped he wouldn't try to change that.”
― Marshall Thornton, Two Nick Nowak Novellas

“Everyone lies. They lie to the people they love; they lie to themselves. Once you admit it, it's not such a hard thing to live with. What is hard to live with is how far people will go to keep their lies alive.”
― Marshall Thornton, Two Nick Nowak Novellas

“Do you think I'm lying to you?" I asked.
"No, I think you're lying to you. I'm just in the way.”
― Marshall Thornton, Two Nick Nowak Novellas

“To be honest, it would be nice if love, and sex, and duty, and fidelity, all managed to happen at once, but for me they never seemed to line up.”
― Marshall Thornton, Two Nick Nowak Novellas

“I have to say,comparatively my life was dull - I'd never fallen in love with my own rapist or been kidnapped and held captive on a tropical island. Of course, there's always tomorrow.”
― Marshall Thornton, Two Nick Nowak Novellas

“This was excitement, and desire, and pleasure. Nothing mattered while you were with a man. Nothing but the man, or men in this case.
This was freedom. This was forgetting.”
― Marshall Thornton, Two Nick Nowak Novellas

“She laughed. That didn't mean what he'd said was funny. It just mean they were still in that early phase of a romance, the part where you laughed, funny or not.”
― Marshall Thornton, Two Nick Nowak Novellas

“I don't remember what I was saying, but I remember thinking I was incredibly smart and wishing I could always speak that clearly and cleverly.”
― Marshall Thornton, Two Nick Nowak Novellas

“Though to be fair, "I live with my mother" is not the sexiest thing a man in his mid-forties can say.”
― Marshall Thornton, Two Nick Nowak Novellas