Pull Focus Quotes

“The lifelong narcissism of being someone’s child; my hurt, your bad. Reduced from personhood to parenthood, held forever to account.”
― Helen Walsh, Pull Focus

“There are the grace moments in life when you’re able to ride the wave just ahead of the piper, and there are others still when debts must be paid.”
― Helen Walsh, Pull Focus

“Divorce decrees should come with a warning sticker: opportunity cost higher than you think, hook back up as soon as you can.”
― Helen Walsh, Pull Focus

“I sometimes think life is a reality show, and we’re all just one step away from making the loser edit.”
― Helen Walsh, Pull Focus

“I had no concrete details, no proof, only dark suggestions whispered between women in the industry over drinks, quietly, the fear of a libel suit or vendetta ever present.”
― Helen Walsh, Pull Focus

“Every little thing was not going to be all right but sometimes in life, you just needed to pretend. Otherwise, you’d swallow the whole bottle of Ativan and be done with it.”
― Helen Walsh, Pull Focus

“Like Alice, I kept sliding further down the rabbit hole, but life had proven to be one rabbit hole after another, so ordinary was a difficult concept to judge.”
― Helen Walsh, Pull Focus

“The FOOFs [Fine Old Ontario Families] didn’t move quickly, though; the lifetime of china cups accumulated up their asses made sudden maneuvering difficult.”
― Helen Walsh, Pull Focus

“Mind the gap. The woman’s voice from the Tube echoed inside me. There’s reality, and then there’s celebrity.”
― Helen Walsh, Pull Focus

“Men’s insatiable desire for female flesh; was there no acceptable limit?”
― Helen Walsh, Pull Focus

“What I failed to recognize, at least until it became impossible not to, is how the kind of intense anger that burned inside Clare justified its own set of rules. Or just how much it would come to mirror my own.”
― Helen Walsh, Pull Focus

“Death is not revenge. It’s the only choice left to you, a preventative measure, in a game whose rules were rigged before it began.”
― Helen Walsh, Pull Focus

“Give a foolish, weak man with a Mussolini self-image enough rope and he’ll hang himself, or so my hope in retributive justice went.”
― Helen Walsh, Pull Focus

“The baddies would quake, the babies would live, and if there was collateral damage of the slow-moving who couldn’t get out of the way, whoever said life was fair was a loser anyway.”
― Helen Walsh, Pull Focus