If You Love It, Let It Kill You Quotes

“One day, I think to myself, but do not say aloud to the cat, one day those young women will become middle-aged women—they’ll have jobs, marriages, affairs, children, bills, houses, pets … One day, they will understand the subtleties of the world, the absurdity and sadness and isolation of what it means not just to be alive but to be alive and a middle-aged woman on the brink of invisibility.”
― Hannah Pittard, If You Love It, Let It Kill You: A Novel

“My boyfriend-husband—I’ll borrow the name Bruce—has been part of my family for only five years. He is still learning our rope tricks. When my mother calls, for instance, I ask her immediately, “Have you fallen off a horse? Are you feeling sick? Have you gotten a diagnosis? Are you trapped in the attic again? Do you have intentions of climbing a tree while tied to a chain saw?” In this family, if you don’t ask the right questions, you don’t get all the information.”
― Hannah Pittard, If You Love It, Let It Kill You: A Novel

“Instead, there is the bald man, and there is his daughter, who is getting too old too fast, even as she isn’t getting old fast enough.
Here is a scene: it is morning, and he is driving away from me in the dark, and she is somewhere already awake, brushing her teeth, doing her funny forward lunges, feeling nervous for the bouts to come. And I am here, in the in-between, in a bed on the second floor of a home in Kentucky. I am in the lost hour, the skipped hour. I am alone, without a child, and it’s all happening too quickly, and it couldn’t be over too soon.”
― Hannah Pittard, If You Love It, Let It Kill You