Ghost Lover Quotes

“Become More Beautiful - you wrote at the top of the vision board. But you couldn't do that. So you became everything else.”
― Lisa Taddeo, Ghost Lover

“He looked dreamy and broad, and cozy like pizzerias in October. And you thought, This could be forever. We could have a child, and Septembers.”
― Lisa Taddeo, Ghost Lover

“She thinks people on a screen are more valuable than she is. Maybe you know better, but you are no better.”
― Lisa Taddeo, Ghost Lover

“There came a soggy fall afternoon. The kind that feels stately, that even if you live in a not-beautiful place, the streets seem to glow with elegance. The leaves smelled dead in that very pungent way that is almost the opposite of death.”
― Lisa Taddeo, Ghost Lover

“She was raised by women who understood how to live with the X-ray of the man.”
― Lisa Taddeo, Ghost Lover

“You wanted to cry. You knew you would not come back, would never see her again. These tiny endings are all over the place.”
― Lisa Taddeo, Ghost Lover

“And men never understood loving something that didn't breathe air. They didn't understand loving someone who didn't love you back, even if that person said they loved you.”
― Lisa Taddeo, Ghost Lover

“YOU’RE IN LINE AT THE hipster sandwich place on a funereal block in the hills, and you don’t want to build your own. You could choose from one of the featured selections, but each is fattening. Pastrami is the polar opposite of Los Angeles. You had wanted to make something yourself, avocado toast for example, in your gleaming kitchen overlooking”
― Lisa Taddeo, Ghost Lover: Stories

“The osso buco took forty-five minutes. He said it usually took an hour and a half, but he'd sped it up. High heat, tight lids. He'd worked as a sous chef in his hometown in New Mexico. The line about speeding up the cooking probably cored her more than both hours of her father's wake.”
― Lisa Taddeo, Ghost Lover

“The dish towel on his shoulder was the most erotic thing she had ever seen.”
― Lisa Taddeo, Ghost Lover

“One day during that vacation we were driving across the island and we hit a giant traffic jam. My father was at the tail end of it, and when he saw the pileup he swore and began driving backwards. Quickly, others began to follow his lead, driving backwards to the most recent exit. An entire highway of peope driving backwards. I would never forget it.”
― Lisa Taddeo, Ghost Lover

“Even though this waitress likely lived in Silver Lake, drove a shit car, and roomed with busboys, she was gorgeous. More exotic, shorter, and sloppier than a model. Gorgeous, medium rare.”
― Lisa Taddeo, Ghost Lover

“He said he liked women who looked like they ate candy. Lollipops, jawbreakers. He liked women who were a little wrecked-looking, skinny, meth-cheeked, and healthy in the unhealthy sense, like they could survive the holocaust because of their white trash genes.”
― Lisa Taddeo, Ghost Lover

“It's Sunday, which for you is a whale's throat. Blue-black and forever.”
― Lisa Taddeo, Ghost Lover

“Men who want to fuck are always very sure of everyone who is fine. I’m sure most times they are right. I have never wanted to fuck more than I have wanted to make sure someone is fine. I’m absolutely sure Sara is the opposite.”
― Lisa Taddeo, Ghost Lover: Stories

“What is it about men with bad breath that makes me feel raped?”
― Lisa Taddeo, Ghost Lover: Stories

“Of course she had suffered the tiny, daily rapes, and the more acute ones from her youth.”
― Lisa Taddeo, Ghost Lover: Stories

“He wore knit ties on top of flannel shirts, like an executive who lived in a tree.”
― Lisa Taddeo, Ghost Lover: Stories