Hot Dog Girl Quotes

“I flick my eyes to the spot on her shoulder where her freckles match the constellations in the sky, and I smile. I get lost in her skin, sipping my drink and mapping the stars on her arm while everyone else talks and eats and laughs around me.”
― Jennifer Dugan, Hot Dog Girl

“I’m not too big for this town, Dad. I never will be.”
― Jennifer Dugan, Hot Dog Girl

“You are more than the sum total of your bullshit background and your scheming. You’re everything I could possibly want.”
― Jennifer Dugan, Hot Dog Girl

“I hold my breath, waiting, because I want something like that to exist, for something, anything, to be the Band-Aid over this gaping wound. And I get it now, I know that's all he could ever be, that's all anyone else could ever be: a Band-Aid, a butterfly strip, a temporary measure, because this is the after, and all the good stuff got left behind in the before.”
― Jennifer Dugan, Hot Dog Girl

“I know I don’t have the face of a woman who walks into an office and demands answers - I have the faces of a girl trying to be too many things at once.”
― Jennifer Dugan, Hot Dog Girl

“And I get it now, I that’s all he could ever be, that’s all anyone else could ever be: a Band-Aid, a butterfly strip, a temporary measure, because this is the after, and all of the good stuff got left behind in the before.”
― Jennifer Dugan, Hot Dog Girl

“If there’s one thing I learned from watching my dad pine over my mom, it’s that there are some people you don’t get over, ever. Some people get in so deep, they just stay with you, holding part of your heart hostage long after they’re gone. You can move on, sure, I’d love it if my dad did, but they’ll still have that little piece of you, and there’s nothing you can do about it. I think Seeley is that for me.”
― Jennifer Dugan, Hot Dog Girl

“What are you working on, sweetie?" I still love it when he calls me that. It's like a concentrated dose of love shot straight into my brain.”
― Jennifer Dugan, Hot Dog Girl