Patricia Wants to Cuddle Quotes

“Imagine a world so small that your ego can fill all of it.”
― Samantha Allen, Patricia Wants to Cuddle

“And you understood what She meant to us. People once called us monsters and freaks, too, but I think we were beautiful freaks, weren’t we? Just like Her.”
― Samantha Allen, Patricia Wants to Cuddle

“Is this all there is waiting for Renee? Love, maybe, and then decay? Her body catching up with the rot in her brain?”
― Samantha Allen, Patricia Wants to Cuddle

“Abortions, Vanessa has found, are a lot like affairs: lots of women have them and lots of women judge you for having them, and often those two groups of women are the same.”
― Samantha Allen, Patricia Wants to Cuddle

“This is not where she pictured herself at this point in life, but then again, she had always had trouble even envisioning being alive past thirty. All the possibilities she had seen in her own circles—getting married, getting divorced, raising kids, aspirational suburban grilling—each of them felt tragic in their own right, all equally dead ends. Something inside of her had always felt like it was decaying, doomed, not long for this world. But telling that to anyone would make her feel crazy.”
― Samantha Allen, Patricia Wants to Cuddle

“It seems like the sort of place where you could actually just live life, instead of researching the best way to live your life on the internet before falling asleep in an apartment full of empty Chinese food containers.”
― Samantha Allen, Patricia Wants to Cuddle

“Amanda doesn’t speak back, because she’s a disembodied head.”
― Samantha Allen, Patricia Wants to Cuddle

“Desire can be such a heady substitute for self-confidence. But she’s trying to stop searching for herself in the eyes of others—especially the dead eyes of a greasy-haired gym junkie.”
― Samantha Allen, Patricia Wants to Cuddle

“Amanda spots two breasts poking out of its hair-covered torso with a perkiness that for a fleeting moment reminds her of the nude Jean Paul Gaultier cone bra from Madonna’s Blond Ambition tour”
― Samantha Allen, Patricia Wants to Cuddle

“This is how Jeremy talks to her: like they’re bros. Jeremy hasn’t even called her “Renee” since night one, when he reduced her to a monosyllable. If guys want to marry you, they give you pet names, not gender-neutral monikers like “Ren” that are also used by insane cartoon chihuahuas.”
― Samantha Allen, Patricia Wants to Cuddle

“Legitimately rich guys don’t go on reality shows full of clout-chasing girls whose entire dream in life is to advertise clothes that are so cheaply made they would probably dissolve in the rain.”
― Samantha Allen, Patricia Wants to Cuddle

“The thing is, Maggie, I want more than half of you. And as long as we stay here, that’s all I’ll get”
― Samantha Allen, Patricia Wants to Cuddle

“She is always on the other side of the glass, watching life happen.”
― Samantha Allen, Patricia Wants to Cuddle

“Something inside of her had always felt like it was decaying, doomed, not long for this world. But telling that to anyone would make her feel crazy.”
― Samantha Allen, Patricia Wants to Cuddle

“She’s trying to stop searching for herself in the eyes of others”
― Samantha Allen, Patricia Wants to Cuddle

“Casey thought they looked like a psychotic book club or something”
― Samantha Allen, Patricia Wants to Cuddle

“Though, in the grand scheme of things, selling tummy tea and gummy vitamins isn’t that much more of a scam than running HR sensitivity trainings. Maybe she can finally go to that hotel in Santorini she’s always wanted to stay in—the one with the hot tubs built into the hillside.”
― Samantha Allen, Patricia Wants to Cuddle

“I don’t think of her as being ‘dead’ anymore, so much as different. Still here, just … unseen.”
― Samantha Allen, Patricia Wants to Cuddle

“A fashion event in Seattle? What, like a raincoat runway walk? A North Face show?”
― Samantha Allen, Patricia Wants to Cuddle

“The only thing that girl feels passionately about are flyaways.”
― Samantha Allen, Patricia Wants to Cuddle

“You’re right, L.M. I don’t know whether you want to be Jesus or whether you want to fuck him.”
― Samantha Allen, Patricia Wants to Cuddle

“Is this all there is waiting for Renee? Love, maybe, and then decay?”
― Samantha Allen, Patricia Wants to Cuddle

“I took ketamine and Klonopin at the same time once at Coachella,” Amanda volunteers. “That was a really weird day.”
― Samantha Allen, Patricia Wants to Cuddle

“I want every word of this to be worthy of you.”
― Samantha Allen, Patricia Wants to Cuddle

“He has carried himself this entire season like God’s gift to womankind—and now Jeremy is Renee’s gift to Her.”
― Samantha Allen, Patricia Wants to Cuddle

“A stranger end than Renee imagined for herself but a welcome one. At least she got to see one perfect, incomprehensible thing before she died—something that could raze all her useless memories to the ground.”
― Samantha Allen, Patricia Wants to Cuddle

“Otters Island feels like the first place Renee has truly been able to hear herself think. Or maybe the first place she has ever allowed herself to feel comfortable with what she thinks. A place where that decaying part of her can be beautiful, like mushrooms growing on a fallen tree.”
― Samantha Allen, Patricia Wants to Cuddle

“By the way, Maggie, quick news flash from the future: we don’t wear socks with Birkenstocks anymore.”
― Samantha Allen, Patricia Wants to Cuddle

“Amanda shuffles backward, crab-walking toward the king bed, but the ape from hell plods straight through the canvas slit, its body hunched over but still held upright by two muscular legs blanketed with thick, shaggy hair.”
― Samantha Allen, Patricia Wants to Cuddle

“At the brink of thirty, that’s what she has to look forward to: incremental raises, glass ceilings, and maybe another cross-country move.”
― Samantha Allen, Patricia Wants to Cuddle