The Nothing Girl Quotes

“The only talents he possessed were delusions of adequacy.”
― Jodi Taylor, The Nothing Girl

“He'll stand up for you and protect you and kill dragons for you, but he won't always know that sometimes, he's the dragon”
― Jodi Taylor, The Nothing Girl

“Something writhed inside me and for a moment I was back in those long dark days when my world was so small I couldn’t even stand up in it.”
― Jodi Taylor, The Nothing Girl

“Get out. Get out of our house. Both of you. It makes me sick just to have you here. You called me a nothing girl. Well, this nothing girl despises you. I’d rather be nothing and loved by Russell Checkland than anything else on earth. You would have ruined his life and he’s so much better than you. He’s kind and generous and passionate and everything you’re not. He will be a great painter one day. And – and he goes like a train.”
― Jodi Taylor, The Nothing Girl

“We walked for a long time in silence. I wasn’t going to nag and I know from Aunt Julia that according to men, mentioning the same thing twice in one decade constitutes nagging, so I shut up.”
― Jodi Taylor, The Nothing Girl

“Well, you don’t snore like bathwater going down the plughole.’ We listened some more. ‘It’s very – loud.’ ‘He certainly sleeps with enthusiasm.”
― Jodi Taylor, The Nothing Girl

“If it’s any reassurance, after what he’s drunk today, I don’t think he could even raise a smile, let alone anything else.”
― Jodi Taylor, The Nothing Girl

“Jenny, I’m so sorry. I think I may have encouraged you to marry a madman.’ ‘Yes, we’re going to be discussing this later. Oh.”
― Jodi Taylor, The Nothing Girl

“Forget any of the rose-tinted idiots banging on about your wedding being the happiest day of your life. Weddings are a long, rain-drenched nightmare when the only sounds are your relatives venomously hissing in dark corners.”
― Jodi Taylor, The Nothing Girl

“seem to have the knack of annoying your aunt.”
― Jodi Taylor, The Nothing Girl