Playing House Quotes

“I never talk to my friends anymore.” “You hate your friends,” Nat said. “Yes, but I’ve known them all so long.”
― Ruby Lang, Playing House

“Everyone says you are my kindest child. But you are quiet but stubborn. It is a slow strength. Sometimes I don’t recognize your qualities because they’re so different from what I know.”
― Ruby Lang, Playing House

“The neighbors are fine. They are very nice.” She spat that word out.”
― Ruby Lang, Playing House

“Fuck you, Nat.” “Love you, too. And in my humble opinion as a risk analyst, you really do have nothing to lose.”
― Ruby Lang, Playing House

“This from a person who falls in love with a new guy every couple of weeks and dumps him when he turns up with the wrong color shoes.”
― Ruby Lang, Playing House

“My parents don’t know how to tell people what my job is so they switch to English. Our Fay is a PARTNER in a FIRM in NEW YORK MANHATTAN. And then everyone assumes I’m a lawyer. I don’t even bother to try to correct them anymore.”
― Ruby Lang, Playing House

“if ol’ Stanford was going to be loathsome, he might have redeemed himself by also being useful.”
― Ruby Lang, Playing House

“If he recalled correctly—and in his determined state, he couldn’t quite be sure he would—Stanford White had been a horrendous perv.”
― Ruby Lang, Playing House

“Well, he’d laid out his arguments long ago, but his informed opinion about a healthy neighborhood for his non-driving mother to live in hadn’t counted for much.”
― Ruby Lang, Playing House

“The apartment was like an old Gothic cathedral that had changed styles midway through building because the construction had outlasted the lives of the people putting it together.”
― Ruby Lang, Playing House

“She’s read everything by Toni Morrison twice already. Although I suppose it doesn’t sound so bad when you put it that way.”
― Ruby Lang, Playing House

“Oliver tried not to look like a rich asshole or a person with too much curiosity about other people’s meds.”
― Ruby Lang, Playing House

“But why did he suddenly feel so—not happy, not relieved, but...alert? Interested. He hadn’t felt interested in anything for a long time.”
― Ruby Lang, Playing House