Lonely Crowds Quotes

“Could a girl ever recover from seeing her father’s imprudence? I didn’t think so.”
― Stephanie Wambugu, Lonely Crowds: A Novel

“The other day I read in a magazine at my doctor’s office about something called trauma. Horrible things happen to you as a child and you never forget them. And they make you act the way you do, make you become an alcoholic or get divorced. I thought, That’s a lot of hog. That can’t be right.” I told him I didn’t know. I had never heard of it. “And I wondered, When Ruth is gone and she looks back, will she see this as a good time or bad time? Was this trauma? Right now, tonight, is it a trauma?”
― Stephanie Wambugu, Lonely Crowds: A Novel

“when you were the one being celebrated. There was this extreme pressure to feign happiness while at the same time you were forced to confront the passing of your life and what you had done or had not done up until that point. It was hard not to take the outcome of these short”
― Stephanie Wambugu, Lonely Crowds: A Novel

“At nine, I wanted love as a kind of corroboration of my own existence.”
― Stephanie Wambugu, Lonely Crowds