On a Quiet Street Quotes

“I’m not dressed for the piano bar, but I won’t go upstairs to get clothes. He is expecting me to stay and to apologize and cook dinner and tiptoe around his mood, but instead I’m gonna go buy a new dress and shoes for tonight, then get to the restaurant by six and treat myself to a long, slow dinner with appetizers, pasta, and dessert. And wine. Then I’ll play vintage jazz in front of a nice group of folks who actually appreciate me. That’s what I’ll do instead.”
― Seraphina Nova Glass, On a Quiet Street

“Defensiveness inhabits the place where empathy used to live.”
― Seraphina Nova Glass, On a Quiet Street

“I’m not dressed for the piano bar, but I won’t go upstairs to get clothes. He is expecting me to stay and to apologize and cook dinner and tiptoe around his mood, but instead I’m gonna go buy a new dress and shoes for tonight, then get to the restaurant by six and treat myself to a long, slow dinner with appetizers, pasta, and dessert. And wine. Then I’ll play vintage jazz in front of a nice group of folks who actually appreciate me. That’s what I’ll do instead. Fuck him.”
― Seraphina Nova Glass, On a Quiet Street

“I think about all the ways I could kill him now that there is no chance some inmate named Face, with a soft spot for middle-aged corporate guys, will shank him in prison.”
― Seraphina Nova Glass, On a Quiet Street

“Oh, if he came for me, I’d blow his head off,”
― Seraphina Nova Glass, On a Quiet Street

“If you’re gonna cheat, trade up.”
― Seraphina Nova Glass, On a Quiet Street

“I think the sadness will hit me—that the loss of something that was never really mine will take its crushing toll on what’s left of me,”
― Seraphina Nova Glass, On a Quiet Street

“I think the sadness will hit me—that the loss of something that was never really mine”
― Seraphina Nova Glass, On a Quiet Street

“the high road feels like the best revenge.”
― Seraphina Nova Glass, On a Quiet Street

“I watched My 600-Lb Life, and they’d all had a trauma and then comforted themselves with cheese fries and beef brisket until they had to be forklifted out of their house and sent to Houston for gastric bypass surgery.”
― Seraphina Nova Glass, On a Quiet Street

“even though Caleb was”
― Seraphina Nova Glass, On a Quiet Street

“He’s mine now.”
― Seraphina Nova Glass, On a Quiet Street

“I’m sure he knows, and this mutual knowledge of the other’s secrets seems oddly intimate suddenly, and I feel like I should go.”
― Seraphina Nova Glass, On a Quiet Street

“adds.”
― Seraphina Nova Glass, On a Quiet Street

“I don’t know if I have found true friends or if they are both absolutely nuts.”
― Seraphina Nova Glass, On a Quiet Street

“Daymmn,”
― Seraphina Nova Glass, On a Quiet Street

“Grant thinks I need a hobby,” she says, and we both laugh at this.”
― Seraphina Nova Glass, On a Quiet Street

“You wanna call me crazy now? Am I still fucking delusional?”
― Seraphina Nova Glass, On a Quiet Street

“He’s always been the type of guy who will comment on the waitress’s backside or the nice rack on the blonde news anchor. It’s the kind of passive comment designed to make any other woman in his company feel lesser-than. Otherwise, why say anything? Why does anybody care what gives you a boner? Not his wife, she can promise him that. Nobody is interested in who you’d like to stick your dick in, she thinks. But that’s really what a comment like that implies, and it takes a certain kind of person—maybe a narcissistic one—to freely make these sorts of proclamations to make those around them feel uncomfortable.”
― Seraphina Nova Glass, On a Quiet Street

“It’s not pity. It’s maybe something mixed with a recognition of what could have been and an apology for the something that was between us.”
― Seraphina Nova Glass, On a Quiet Street

“It was you.”
― Seraphina Nova Glass, On a Quiet Street

“This is exactly how she feels—like a dead star
being held up by forces beyond her control. She wishes she could stay like this forever.”
― Seraphina Nova Glass, On a Quiet Street

“I should have known it was all a little too fairy-tale to be real and something would ruin it.”
― Seraphina Nova Glass, On a Quiet Street

“It’s an instinct every woman on earth has, I’m sure. It was nothing to do with him, just a knee-jerk reaction, but he picked up on it.”
― Seraphina Nova Glass, On a Quiet Street