How to Start a Fire Quotes

“Have you heard about the demotion of the planet Pluto? I, for one, am incensed. How do you go your whole life being a planet and then, suddenly, you’re not a planet anymore. Correction: dwarf planet. What does that even mean? I see an idiom taking shape. Five, ten years from now, when someone gets dissed or demoted or loses his or her job, people will say, “He was plutoed.” “Are you plutoing me?” someone will say when witnessing a snub. “That was some pluto, wasn’t it?” Hmm, I’m not sure about the syntax of the last one, but I think you get the gist.”
― Lisa Lutz, How to Start a Fire

“The problem isn’t reading Ayn Rand, it’s liking her.”
― Lisa Lutz, How to Start a Fire

“Sometimes it’s not the truth itself but the surprise that feels like a blow.”
― Lisa Lutz, How to Start a Fire

“Mitch had a particular way with women—a formula of giving and withholding that almost always managed to hook them. Getting them to talk about themselves was the first step; remaining enigmatic was the second. There were other steps, but he used only the first two during that encounter.”
― Lisa Lutz, How to Start a Fire

“Kate ranked the sunset against a few others and it came up short, but sunsets were like pizza, she though; they were all pretty good.”
― Lisa Lutz, How to Start a Fire

“Anna had always lived like a convict, even as a child, perpetually preparing for her next breakout.”
― Lisa Lutz, How to Start a Fire

“But she understood from watching her mother that there was a cost to beauty—you were chained to it for years, and when it finally released you, you didn’t know who you were anymore.”
― Lisa Lutz, How to Start a Fire

“There are two kinds of womanizers. Those who love women too much and those who hate them.”
― Lisa Lutz, How to Start a Fire

“boundary blindness”
― Lisa Lutz, How to Start a Fire