Disappoint Me Quotes

“This is also the world where people, often women, are doomed to spend much of their lives forgiving the errors of others and suffering for the sake of other people’s growth. Sometimes there’s nothing to do but leave, and sometimes there’s nothing to do but forgive.”
― Nicola Dinan, Disappoint Me

“No person is fewer than two things.”
― Nicola Dinan, Disappoint Me

“I suppose intellectualizing our experiences is just another way to depersonalize them. Strip them of pain we would otherwise feel, and replace it with pain we can merely think about.”
― Nicola Dinan, Disappoint Me

“I’m taken by how little I feel at what I’ve said, how something once anguishing and hurtful has smoothed into a pebble, a small anecdote to skip into the lake of conversation.”
― Nicola Dinan, Disappoint Me

“After a certain age, if people don't become their families or partners, then they become their jobs.”
― Nicola Dinan, Disappoint Me

“Nostalgia demands an admission that the present is not so good.”
― Nicola Dinan, Disappoint Me

“But maybe that’s a tall order, and maybe sometimes life demands spelling things out for people, and that’s nobody’s fault.”
― Nicola Dinan, Disappoint Me

“They're all white-they don't understand that I'll be asking for permission for the rest of my life”
― Nicola Dinan, Disappoint Me

“You can fall in love with an outline, you can even make a home with one, but there will come a time when you can’t deny the bones their flesh. No person is fewer than two things.”
― Nicola Dinan, Disappoint Me

“But here he is, walking her down the aisle, all in the name of tradition, all in the name of seeing men as who we want them to be and not as who they are.”
― Nicola Dinan, Disappoint Me

“He gives me the look. That weird, dumb glare that men give you before they kiss you, a moment of vacancy before leaning in, a twisting of the head as if it were a star-shaped block to push into a baby’s shape sorter.”
― Nicola Dinan, Disappoint Me