We Do What We Do in the Dark Quotes

“I’m afraid of being alone and afraid that is the only way I know how to be.”
― Michelle Hart, We Do What We Do in the Dark

“I think that when you’re miserable, you often do things that extend that misery. There is something pleasing about misery that makes it seem as though time has stopped.”
― Michelle Hart, We Do What We Do in the Dark

“What did it matter, Mallory wondered now, whether a woman was pretty or funny? She was fucked either way.”
― Michelle Hart, We Do What We Do in the Dark

“Mallory realized this was how the woman was: she at once withheld and invited. The woman fulfilled so many of Mallory’s wants but left so many wants unfulfilled that the feeling of wanting in and of itself became desirable. There was an untouchable intensity, or an intense untouchability, to keeping a secret, to having a continuous crush, that Mallory wanted never to lose.”
― Michelle Hart, We Do What We Do in the Dark: 'A haunting study of solitude and connection' Meg Wolitzer

“But it’s like hearing about a dream. No one wants to hear about that. That’s the best part of having dreams. They’re insane and they only make sense to you.”
― Michelle Hart, We Do What We Do in the Dark

“Sometimes she suspected she had given the best of herself to the woman, as if the fire of her life had burned most intensely when she was eighteen, and she no longer had enough energy to keep rekindling it.”
― Michelle Hart, We Do What We Do in the Dark

“What did it matter”
― Michelle Hart, We Do What We Do in the Dark

“art was something created in hiding that was meant to be found by others.”
― Michelle Hart, We Do What We Do in the Dark