Neon in Daylight Quotes

“Speaking anything out loud ... seemed like an audacity. Lately, she could think the words fine, could sense their calm gray delineations in her mind, neutral and precise, but when she began to say them, to actually shape them into sounds to propel out of her mouth, the whole project seemed to fail.”
― Hermione Hoby, Neon in Daylight

“He didn’t tell her about the waking fucking hell that was the deterioration of a marriage, the bottomless black hole that was the love of your life turning into a stranger, the heartbreak, mind-break, body-break, everything-break of a breakup of that kind, that all that agony was far more intense, dense, and crushingly huge an experience than was the love that had preceded it. Unrequited love, that was a walk in the park. Or, rather, a delicious itch to scratch. Who cares if the itch worsens the more you scratch? Keep on scratching, deliciously.”
― Hermione Hoby, Neon in Daylight

“The tapping of her foot seemed less like agitation and more like an expression of optimism and energy, a hunger for things. Its regularity seemed almost practical, as though this foot pedaled the engine that powered the girl’s world and she was simply keeping it going, pushing it forward, an impatient maintenance.”
― Hermione Hoby, Neon in Daylight

“It's never love, as soon as you feel the next love. Because isn't that a prerequisite of the condition? That you tell yourself everything that came before wasn't really it.”
― Hermione Hoby, Neon in Daylight

“A tart shiver of pleasure ran through her at the memory. The dare, the doing it, the mark it made.”
― Hermione Hoby, Neon in Daylight

“Being told what you were was irresistible, albeit in a slightly sickening way. She was feeling, yes, a little sick.”
― Hermione Hoby, Neon in Daylight

“So much you could forget — the sequence of your own life. Maybe humans weren't meant to live this long, maybe brains couldn't retain this much life, maybe the natural way of things was to die at thirty, when you could still remember it all, or most of it.”
― Hermione Hoby, Neon in Daylight