“ How quickly we damn ourselves when we start to talk, how small and inglorious we always sound. Curtis Sittenfeld
“ Either Ault was a lot harder than my junior high had been, or I was getting dumber- I suspected both. If I wasn't literally getting dumber, I knew at least that I'd lost the glow that surrounds you wh… Curtis Sittenfeld
“ I always worried someone would notice me, and then when no one did, I felt lonely. Curtis Sittenfeld
“ You know what her punishment is for tormenting you way back when? he said.I looked at him.He said, her punishment is being her, Curtis Sittenfeld
“ I won’t claim I’ve never in my life done anything I’m ashamed of, but I haven’t done anything for a good while. If not everyone would agree with the decisions I’ve made, that’s fine. What other people… Curtis Sittenfeld
“ Such compliments--they were thrilling but almost impossible to absorb in this quantity, at this pace. It was like she was being pelted with magnificent hail, and she wished she could save the individu… Curtis Sittenfeld
“ My real frustration with Clara, I think, was that it seemed like she should be insecure but wasn't. Curtis Sittenfeld
“ At such moments, I felt that we were like the people in California who live in enormous houses on the sides of cliffs, ghat our lives were beautiful but precarious, their foundations vulnerable. Curtis Sittenfeld
“ Cu ani mai tarziu, la o nunta, l-am auzit pe preot descriind casnicia ca pe o frangere in doua a tristetii si o dublare a bucuriei, si nu mi-a trecut prin minte nici tipul cu care eram atunci si nici… Curtis Sittenfeld
“ Nothing broke my heart like the slow death of a shared joke that had once seemed genuinely funny. Curtis Sittenfeld
“ When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Cincinnati because it’s always twenty years behind the times. —Mark Twain Curtis Sittenfeld
“ 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, there is never a reason to wait around for him. Curtis Sittenfeld
“ They only half-jokingly speculated about whether they were the last two single people from their high school class, Curtis Sittenfeld
“ Only part you have to apologize for is getting me all horned up and then passing out, but I'll take a rain check Curtis Sittenfeld
“ To remain alone did not seem to me a terrible fate, no worse than being falsely joined to another person. Curtis Sittenfeld
“ She has always been a bystander in family destruction, never realizing she herself possessed the capacity to inflict it. Curtis Sittenfeld
