Pretty Is Quotes

“it is possible to be desperately unhappy in surroundings that other people might admire on a postcard.”
― Maggie Mitchell, Pretty Is

“Sean is permanently damaged; something is awry in that boy.”
― Maggie Mitchell, Pretty Is

“Most people’s lives aren’t stories. This should have been obvious to me before now, but in my current state of mind it hits me pretty hard.”
― Maggie Mitchell, Pretty Is

“He’s a writer, which for all I know might be worse, but at least it’ll be different. I’ve sworn off actors. They’re always looking at themselves through your eyes.”
― Maggie Mitchell, Pretty Is

“Putting the past behind you isn't like stuffing something in the back of a drawer or trimming a loose thread. The past has a life of its own.”
― Maggie Mitchell, Pretty Is

“She has one foot in the world of small towns like this one and another in Albany, an anxious, self-important city midway between New York City and the rural wilderness called the North Country.”
― Maggie Mitchell, Pretty Is

“Essential to the plot? Um, no. Essential to the development of the character? Only if it was essential that the character be a dimwit exhibitionist floozy. Which apparently it was. (The actress who did take the part has played pretty much nothing but dimwit-exhibitionist-floozy roles since then. Sure, she’s a household name, but so is Velveeta.)”
― Maggie Mitchell, Pretty Is