Sad Janet Quotes

“As a woman, I'm hard-wired to be always thinking about babies even if what I'm thinking is that I definitely don't want any. Mostly I want to forget I'm a woman and just be a person, but it's almost impossible.”
― Lucie Britsch, Sad Janet

“Life is all about how you fill the holes. I am all hole, most of the time, a cave of a person.”
― Lucie Britsch, Sad Janet

“All the tiny sadnesses will build up until they make you into whatever monster you are that keeps you up at night.”
― Lucie Britsch, Sad Janet

“What do you mean I can't get a job? I'm an expert on nineteenth-century homoerotic literature.”
― Lucie Britsch, Sad Janet

“I always want the families to adopt me too. I’m secretly jealous of all these dogs who are getting their second, or even third or fourth, chance at life. I’m so exhausted of taking care of myself that I’d happily curl up wherever anyone would have me. I’d be no trouble, really. I just want to be taken care of.”
― Lucie Britsch, Sad Janet

“I think about that little pill for a long time. I think about how all I have to do is swallow it and I'll suddenly be a happy carefree person, someone who doesn't see the sadness. I shed a little tear for the sadness. Someone needs to see it, I think, why not me?”
― Lucie Britsch, Sad Janet

“It’s so quiet in the room that you can hear people in the street getting on with their lives while we’re in here, stalled out entirely. Usually it takes twenty minutes or so for the awkwardness to start suffocating us all, like a scratchy sweater you’re being made to wear because your grandma knitted it, even though she’ll be dead soon judging by how many she still smokes and how she only eats Oreos, or at least nibbles off one cookie, licks out the middle, and leaves the other cookie by the side of the bath. The sweater she knit you is the size you were when you were twelve, but you must try to wear it even if it kills you, which it probably will. We’re all dying in this sweater together. That’s how these meetings feel.”
― Lucie Britsch, Sad Janet: A Novel

“Sometimes when people look at me with pity I want to shout, I was a teenager girl once! so they know i can survive anything.”
― Lucie Britsch, Sad Janet

“I'm not out to make anyone else sad.
I can still smile when it's required, laugh when something is funny. I will still accept a hug and sometimes even give one. I'm not turning up to weddings crowing that most marriages end in divorce, lurking in maternity wards to tell new parents that they're certain to fuck up their child in some way. I've never interrupted a sporting event by shouting, "There are no winners because we all die!" I'm not totally dead inside. I can still get it up when I want to. I just don't want to, most of the time.”
― Lucie Britsch, Sad Janet

“So maybe I willed it to me, the sadness. And since then I've been storing it all up when I should have been throwing it out. Hoarding sadness like I think there'll be a TV show about it one day and someone is about to come and help me sort my life out.
No one is coming.”
― Lucie Britsch, Sad Janet

“Who needs drugs when there are potatoes?”
― Lucie Britsch, Sad Janet

“It breaks my heart how excited dogs are at the mere idea of being taken for a walk.”
― Lucie Britsch, Sad Janet

“In an age when most people Instagram their vaginas, I like people who keep a little something back.”
― Lucie Britsch, Sad Janet

“rummaging around her giant bag to”
― Lucie Britsch, Sad Janet: A Novel

“Debs said I could crash if I had nowhere to be. I've got many places to be, I told her, but nowhere for me.”
― Lucie Britsch, Sad Janet

“The lights are pretty, but they always are, it’s not their fault. I’d love someone to switch me on like that and watch me be just what I was meant to be.”
― Lucie Britsch, Sad Janet: A Novel

“want to ask her all the obvious questions: Didn’t anyone call in and say maybe pills aren’t the answer? Is it possible that we just shouldn’t care as much—not just about the holidays, but about whether everyone we know is happy? Everyone’s sad now, it’s a fact, so why keep pushing us all to be something else? I”
― Lucie Britsch, Sad Janet: A Novel

“The problem was, the movies made me cry, even ones that weren’t supposed to, and I couldn’t explain it to him. They all took me back to when I first saw them, when I was someone else, all those feelings I had back then about how I thought the world might be and who I might be in it.”
― Lucie Britsch, Sad Janet: A Novel

“This is why women should always wear Doc Martens. You never know when you’re going to have to defeat the Jaws of Death or kick a man in the nuts.”
― Lucie Britsch, Sad Janet: A Novel

“I kept saying, It comes when it comes, which is my motto for everything: shitting, sex, your period, all of life, really. The only thing it doesn’t work for is Christmas, because that comes whether you want it to or not, like most men.”
― Lucie Britsch, Sad Janet: A Novel

“Happiness is not on my radar. I want other things. Like control over my life, my body. Like being able to get through a day without feeling like I’m doing it wrong. I want to feel all my feelings, not swallow them, and if they swallow me, so be it.”
― Lucie Britsch, Sad Janet: A Novel

“They know what people say - about these women, who live out in the woods with dogs. I heard they're lesbians, they say, but really we can't be bothered with either sex. I heard they're witches, others say. We might be if we ever got our shit together. All women are witches if they can be bothered.”
― Lucie Britsch, Sad Janet

“I'd come to see him about not sleeping and he said I should try to reduce my stress, and I asked him how exactly, and I told him about my job and the state of the world and my mother and my boyfriend and I think I might have mentioned nuclear weapons.”
― Lucie Britsch, Sad Janet

“I half expected him to say, Your boyfriend says you've lost interest in sex. I would have answered, Only with him. I'm just not that into live men anymore. Have you seen the news? They're awful.”
― Lucie Britsch, Sad Janet

“I half expected him to say, Your boyfriend says you've lost interest in sex. I would have answered, Only with him. I'm just not that into live men anymore. Have you seen the news? They're awful.

Have you seen the news”
― Lucie Britsch, Sad Janet

“It’s a problem. Me wanting people to adopt me when I pretend I don’t even like people.”
― Lucie Britsch, Sad Janet

“We're all so tired.”
― Lucie Britsch, Sad Janet

“In the ad, this better version of me is sitting in her apartment watching TV, just like I am now, only her apartment is obviously much nicer than mine. For authenticity they even have a pizza box open on the table, even though this girl only eats seven almonds a week. Her world is black and white, which seems intended as a signal for depression but actually makes her look like she's in a cool French movie...”
― Lucie Britsch, Sad Janet