All Curtis Sittenfeld Quotes
- I always worried someone would notice me, and then when no one did, I felt lonely. Always Worried
- Later on, when I tried to imagine how I might have ruined things, that would occur to me - that I'd so rarely resisted, that… All
- And this is how I know that it's all just words, words, words - that fundamentally, they make no difference... Our relationship, for as long… Act
- She nodded, jotting something in her notebook. You’re writing that down? Has the interview started?” Lee, whenever you’re talking to a reporter, you’re being interviewed. Down
- Perhaps this is how you know you're doing the thing you're intended to: No matter how slow or how slight your progress, you never feel… Feel
- The better you learn to take care of yourself, the less you settle for being around people who can't or won't treat you as well… Accustomed
- The big occurrences in life, the serious ones, have for me always been nearly impossible to recognize because they never feel big or serious. In… All
- If a man wants to be romantically involved with you, he tries to kiss you. That's the entire story, and if he doesn't kiss you,… Entire
- There are people we treat wrong and later, we're prepared to treat other people right. Inspirational
- After I’d told her – the mall, the taxi, Cross stroking my hair – she said, ‘Did he kiss you?’ ‘John and Martin totally would… Circumstances
- We all stood and gathered our backpacks and I looked at the floor around my chair to make sure I hadn’t dropped anything. I was… All
- She opened her mouth but did not immediately speak, and I felt, simultaneously, the impulse to coax the words from her and the impulse to… Actually Change
- It is not a camera, or a reporter that makes something real and genuine; more often a camera or a reporter does the opposite. Camera
- I have always found the times when another person recognizes you to be strangely sad; I suspect the pathos of these moments is their rareness,… Almost Unbearable
- And an unstable childhood makes you appreciate calmness and not crave excitement. To spend a Saturday afternoon mopping your kitchen floor while listening to opera… Afternoon
- Foolish names and foolish faces often appear in public places. Appear
- To remain alone did not seem to me a terrible fate, no worse than being falsely joined to another person. Alone
- There are people we treat wrong and later we're prepared to treat other people right. Perhaps this sounds mercenary, but I feel grateful for these… All
- Anyone who's really interested in anything spends time alone. Alone
- ... nothing broke my heart like the slow death of a shared joke that had once seemed genuinely funny. Broke
- When you are a high school girl, there is nothing more miraculous than a high school boy. Boy
- She really does like him, she likes lying next to him, she wants to be around him; when you get down to it, can you… Doe
- I feel like a lot of life is distasteful and embarrassing. And you just push through it. You fix what you can, and you let… Distasteful
- Ordinarily, of course, I thought it best to remain inconspicuous, but the gesture had a certain irresistable theatricaility, and an inevitablility. Sometimes you can feel… Best
- If you knew where your happiness came from, it gave you patience. You realized that a lot of the time, you were just waiting out… Came