Hello Girls Quotes

“Her train of thought broke off into a bunch of little toy trains and then raced off in different directions.”
― Brittany Cavallaro, Hello Girls

“You looked like My Little Ponies auditioning at a glue factory.”
― Brittany Cavallaro, Hello Girls

“Lucille had never seen mountains before, and it was increasingly hard for her not to gape over the steering wheel. There was a weird poetry to it, how the usual nail salons and Dress Barns and Save-A-Lots still existed despite the evidence of actual smashed tectonic plates behind them. There was a bite in the air she didn't associate with summer; summer meant mosquitos by the lake and trying to breathe through the pea-soup humidity.

Not purple mountain majesty with a side of CHECK CASHING DELUX.”
― Emily Henry, Hello Girls

“Why did people lie? With their words, with their voices, with their bodies, with their beautiful houses and beautiful clothes and sometimes even their faces? Why couldn’t everyone just be what they were?”
― Brittany Cavallaro, Hello Girls

“And I’m not a sweet-tasting, soluble carbohydrate, I’m a human person, but you don’t see me throwing a fucking fit.”
― Brittany Cavallaro, Hello Girls

“Sometimes she and Winona dressed like old ladies and pretended that the world had no use for their bodies anymore, that Winona and Lucille finally belonged to Winona and Lucille.”
― Brittany Cavallaro, Hello Girls

“I just want to have a small place in the world that truly belongs to me. To not feel, for just one fucking second, like I’m wandering through someone else’s world with someone else’s permission to be there.”
― Brittany Cavallaro, Hello Girls

“Lucille couldn’t have wants. She couldn’t have needs. What she had was a hole that she shoveled her love into, a hole she couldn’t see the bottom of until she met Winona.”
― Brittany Cavallaro, Hello Girls

“What she and Lucille did—shit-shooting, as Lucille called it—was a lifeline. It was friendship, as a verb.”
― Brittany Cavallaro, Hello Girls

“It was probably just as well, she told herself. If her dad had died, she would have starved to death. She didn’t have the key to the locks he kept on the pantry.”
― Brittany Cavallaro, Hello Girls

“A sack of shit painted gold would only fool people for so long.”
― Brittany Cavallaro, Hello Girls

“A giver who lived in the moral gray zone. Someone who did bad things for good reasons, who could only hurt one person if it meant saving another.”
― Brittany Cavallaro, Hello Girls

“Lucille liked her body, her hips and her neck and her belly button, she liked her Baywatch hair and her blue eyes, but she hated the narrative that floated around it. That this body, the body she was born into, meant that she was perpetually Open for Business. Not just sexy business, but power business—dudes looking to put her in her place, to make her shut up so they could appreciate her better as the toy she should know herself to be.”
― Brittany Cavallaro, Hello Girls

“I hate it when they do that. Hello, girls! Like we’re children. Like we’re the littlest of little girls in our prettiest princess costumes, and simultaneously hot and sexy ladies. We just robbed a clerk who couldn’t stop staring at your Child Boobs.”
― Brittany Cavallaro, Hello Girls

“That’s what we do for our kids, isn’t it? We hoist the sun up into the sky for them every day until they’re old enough to do it for themselves.”
― Brittany Cavallaro, Hello Girls

“They'd done something impossible and it had turned out to be quite easy. Winona had the startling realization that perhaps nothing was impossible.”
― Emily Henry, Hello Girls