“She often pictured her sadness as an IV cart she had to wheel everywhere she went, its bag dripping a heavy fluid… — Alissa Nutting Sadness Copy Share Image
I think humor is like a shield that lets you get as close to the sad sad flame as possible - far… — Alissa Nutting Comedy Copy Share Image
“There was something repulsive (and revealing) about talking on a cell phone while handling garbage. Why did anyone pretend human relationships had… — Alissa Nutting Cell phone Copy Share Image
“He seemed to understand that resolution didn’t need to have anything to do with truth, and to choose a sense of harmony… — Alissa Nutting Peace Copy Share Image
Luckily I'm on prescription drugs that prevent me from worrying about anything too much. — Alissa Nutting Drug Copy Share Image
I really want readers to put themselves into the shoes of each character. So the opening lines are an orienting technique: this… — Alissa Nutting Books Copy Share Image
“Why am I always the nerd at the party? I am in my thirties and by now I should at least know… — Alissa Nutting Equality Copy Share Image
I'm a big people pleaser; I had a very awkward adolescence. Part of me is still that person who wants everyone to… — Alissa Nutting Adolescence Copy Share Image
My poor family. I try to protect them from my work. My parents are very religious, and my brother and sister are… — Alissa Nutting Alleys Copy Share Image
“My attorney rubbed his hand across his mustache and the corners of his lips several times, as though the allegation was a… — Alissa Nutting Allegation Copy Share Image
It was just such a complete shock to turn on the news one day and see someone that you know, someone you… — Alissa Nutting Books Copy Share Image
“I smiled as our hands pressed against one another in midair, as though we were pretending to touch through invisible glass. We… — Alissa Nutting Bare skin Copy Share Image
“It was nice to hear someone familiar. 'How have you been?' Hazel cleared her throat. 'So I need to start networking a… — Alissa Nutting Getting through life Copy Share Image
If you're a beautiful Caucasian woman, and you commit a heinous crime, it's like people don't want to acknowledge the reality of… — Alissa Nutting Acknowledge Copy Share Image
“Melted cheese is a culinary veil...a foxhole where mediocrity can hide.” — Alissa Nutting Cheese Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself attractive. I'm an academic, and in academia, people will write you off if you look younger. — Alissa Nutting Academia Copy Share Image
I've seen men in $5,000 suits urinate in public fountains here. Las Vegas is the best place on earth. — Alissa Nutting Best place Copy Share Image
My writing circle isn't too full of people who fall into the "Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought Tuesdays With Morrie"… — Alissa Nutting Categories Copy Share Image
exercise will never be my lover. Or even my friend. For me, a workout is more like an annoying coworker I have… — Alissa Nutting Annoying Copy Share Image
During my MFA, I was lucky to be surrounded by a really supportive group of peers. And now I get feedback pretty… — Alissa Nutting Feedback Copy Share Image
Las Vegas is incredible. Either you love it or you're a classy person with morals. I fall into the former category. It's… — Alissa Nutting Categories Copy Share Image
“IV cart she had to wheel everywhere she went, its bag dripping a heavy fluid that was keeping her sick instead of… — Alissa Nutting Copy Share Image
Keeping a diary is advanced-level living. I spend way too much time trying not to curl up in the corner like a… — Alissa Nutting Corners Copy Share Image
With surgical insight, Inside Madeline delves into the most complex female territory imaginable and dissects until every honest bone is revealed. Bomer's… — Alissa Nutting Bones Copy Share Image
You know how some people are unlucky in love? I was always unlucky in exercise. I'd get into a relationship with a… — Alissa Nutting Breakup Copy Share Image
“A lot of people who know about the view from the tip-top of a bridge or tall building are dead, because they… — Alissa Nutting Beauty Copy Share Image
I've worked hard on my doctorate, and I want to be acknowledged for that. But I also wanted to comment on this… — Alissa Nutting Appearance Copy Share Image
“Hazel then attempted to break the doll’s head open on the nightstand like a piggy bank, but Diane’s exterior proved to be… — Alissa Nutting Piggy bank Copy Share Image
“Do you know how when people are really hungry they will be driven to eat the inedible? Grass and soil and the… — Alissa Nutting Love Copy Share Image
“If she’d been smart enough to say, Your money is tempting but wow are you strange; I am too but let me… — Alissa Nutting Discomfort Copy Share Image
“The numbers could never be as favorable as they were right now, when his naiveté would be subtracted from my expertise to… — Alissa Nutting Astonishment Copy Share Image
I think what tends to embarrass me most is how much I struggle at the little things that seem to come so… — Alissa Nutting Back when Copy Share Image
“How best to convey that she wasn’t fraught with grief without seeming like a monster? “We’ve reached a point of acceptance with… — Alissa Nutting Acceptance Copy Share Image
For many years I wrote nothing but "I will not sleep with Steve Almond" over and over again, page after page à… — Alissa Nutting Able Copy Share Image
“The screams echoing through Janet's class were hard to bear. She was attempting a lecture on the Treaty of Paris while Mrs.… — Alissa Nutting Classrooms Copy Share Image
“I found that sometimes it was a relief to do something unattractive in private, to confirm that I’m deeply flawed when so… — Alissa Nutting Handwriting Copy Share Image
“When had she so internalized the feeling that if something wasn’t great she needed to bridge the gap between reality and idealism… — Alissa Nutting Computers Copy Share Image
“Hazel sometimes had a fantasy daydream at school where the teacher walked into the classroom and yelled, ISN’T EVERYTHING HORRIBLE? DOESN’T THE… — Alissa Nutting Help others Copy Share Image
“She wanted to tell him everything: that her worst fears had come true, that her husband had managed to place a surveillance… — Alissa Nutting Fear Copy Share Image
