The Lonely Quotes

“Lipstick was an easy answer to boredom. It was the most exciting thing you could do in the shortest amount of time because for a second, you got to convince yourself that you were the kind of gal who wears lipstick every day. You got to pout to yourself, and trick yourself that you were glamorous. Then in a second it was over, time to wipe it off and start again.”
― Ainslie Hogarth, The Lonely

“I wanted to twist the end of her nose off and chew on it like bubble gum. But I didn't.”
― Ainslie Hogarth, The Lonely

“the more she resembled a doormat, the more he seemed to treat her like one.”
― Ainslie Hogarth, The Lonely

“Sometimes I feel like I'm disappearing.”
― Ainslie Hogarth, The Lonely

“Just to warn you, I die at the end of all of this. So don't get too attached to me or anything.”
― Ainslie Hogarth, The Lonely

“A callous sliced from the soft tissue of a mollusk becomes a pearl. A parasite cut out of a woman becomes a person.”
― Ainslie Hogarth, The Lonely

“It was very strange waking up in the world behind your eyelids, pulled from the depths of your subconscious into the dark.”
― Ainslie Hogarth, The Lonely

“A squirrel tail without life is the saddest thing you could ever see.”
― Ainslie Hogarth, The Lonely

“pictures often failed her, incapable of telling a story in full, always missing the most important parts of a moment.”
― Ainslie Hogarth, The Lonely

“The lonely made her ugly and beautiful at once.”
― Ainslie Hogarth, The Lonely

“The clutter made her scared. Uncomfortable. Like it might not realize that she wasn't part of it and make her invisible too.”
― Ainslie Hogarth, The Lonely

“You don't want to be pitied."

"Why not?"

"I don't really know, but I know that you don't want it. No one ever wants anyone else's pity. In the movies anyway.”
― Ainslie Hogarth, The Lonely

“She wanted to be as still as they, wanted to be drawn into the dirt and reborn a million times, at the same time, like each little blade of smooth grass.”
― Ainslie Hogarth, The Lonely

“The bathroom was the place to do strange, socially unacceptable things.”
― Ainslie Hogarth, The Lonely

“The volcanic bubbling of everything in one pan made it very difficult to hear a crying child on the doorstep.”
― Ainslie Hogarth, The Lonely

“I wish that I really were all troubled and beautiful the way that some people are. Give myself the kind of beginning worthy of the Biography Channel.”
― Ainslie Hogarth, The Lonely

“Real smoker's fingers aren't scared of the burning embers; their fingers coexist with it.”
― Ainslie Hogarth, The Lonely

“Eyeglasses and teeth: both breakable, valuable things that you have to carry with you all the time. Hanging there precariously like earrings without backings, threatening to fall out, chip off, crack to the quick because of some innocent nut or seed or beer bottle.”
― Ainslie Hogarth, The Lonely

“From day one I was an inconvenience. But apparently I was a very cute baby so that helped my case a bit.”
― Ainslie Hogarth, The Lonely

“You're nothing but an intruder. A germ. A piece of sand agitating my oyster. But you're not a pearl; you're a tumor or a wart or a cyst.”
― Ainslie Hogarth, The Lonely

“She wanted to find a loose thread in the twilight. Pull it. See what shined so brightly behind it, through the snags.”
― Ainslie Hogarth, The Lonely

“Because I'm evil, that's why. I'm an evil monster, two at once all the time and both evil. That's why.”
― Ainslie Hogarth, The Lonely

“And she nodded and she nodded and she nodded until she was sobbing and she wasn't sure when the nodding turned into sobbing but it had and she'd buried her face into The Mother's neck and The Mother rubbed her back, her palm up and down and up and down.”
― Ainslie Hogarth, The Lonely

“Quivering eyelids closed over wild eyeballs. Paddleball heartbeat, awake beneath the costume of sleep.”
― Ainslie Hogarth, The Lonely

“And the more she wore this mask of talc and ground fish scales, the more invisible she became underneath. Every night when she wiped it all off, the face that stared back was more and more nothing.”
― Ainslie Hogarth, The Lonely

“Maybe she left The House one day and no one noticed her and she thought for a moment that she might have died in her sleep that night. That is, until she smashed a jar of spaghetti sauce in the international foods section at the grocery store or bumped into a surly old man on the bus, and then people noticed her. But not in a good way. She wanted to be noticed in a good way.”
― Ainslie Hogarth, The Lonely

“But everyone is just flesh, warmed by a heart pumping blood through organized veins and into and out of internal organs.”
― Ainslie Hogarth, The Lonely

“I'm the bad guy. The undead. The demon. The evil thing lurking in The Woods, making it unsafe for young girls to wander. And actually it was better this way because now I never had to worry about bad guys ever again. I'm the bad guy. And the odds of there being two bad guys in The Woods at one time were pretty slim, I think.”
― Ainslie Hogarth, The Lonely

“I could feel something horrific bubbling, some reaction worse than crying or screaming, even worse than vomiting.”
― Ainslie Hogarth, The Lonely

“Fuzzy things tend to clear out when it gets dark.”
― Ainslie Hogarth, The Lonely