Quotes by Curtis Sittenfeld

Curtis Sittenfeld

… it struck me as so hard to believe I was really getting what I wanted; it was always easier to feel the lack of something than the thing itself.

Believe

Easier

Feels

… nothing broke my heart like the slow death of a shared joke that had once seemed genuinely funny.

Broke

Heart

Jokes

..and I thought how liking a boy was just the same as believing you wanted to know a secret – everything was better when you were denied and could feel tormented by curiousity or loneliness. But the moment of something happening was treacherous. It was just so tiring to have to worry about whether your face was peeling, or to have to laugh at stories that weren’t funny.

Believe

Boys

Loneliness

After I’d told her – the mall, the taxi, Cross stroking my hair – she said, ‘Did he kiss you?’ ‘John and Martin totally would have seen that,’ I said, and as I felt myself implying the circumstances had prevented our kissing, I thought maybe this was why you told stories to other people – for how their possibilities enlarged in the retelling.

Hair

Kissing

People

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 on the radio, and to go that night to an Indian restaurant with a friend and be home by nine o’clock – these are enough. They are gifts.

Appreciate

Home

Night

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 as things were good, and in that moment when they could have been good again, was about the irrelevance of words. You feel what you feel, you act as you act, who in the history of the world has ever been convinced by a well-reasoned argument?

Differences

Irrelevance

Long

Anyone who’s really interested in anything spends time alone.

Alone Time

Spend Time

Being raised in an unstable household makes you understand that the world doesn’t exist to accommodate you, which… is something a lot of people struggle to understand well into their adulthood. It makes you realize how quickly a situation can shift, how danger really is everywhere. But crises when the occur, do not catch you off guard; you have never believed you lived under a shelter of some essential benevolence. And an unstable childhood makes you appreciate calmness and not crave excitement.

Appreciate

People

Struggle

Even more than getting compliments on social media, what I love is when some random stranger says something very funny or insightful about my books, often in 140 characters or less! It’s a very casual, low-stakes, non-burdensome way of connecting that I think is fun for both the writer and the reader. And there are a lot of clever people out there who have no connection to publishing.

Book

Clever

Fun

Foolish names and foolish faces often appear in public places.

Faces

Foolish

Names

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Accepting

Age

Alone Time

Appreciate

Art

Avid

Being Me

Believe

Bent

Book

Bottles

Boys

Broke

Bystanders

Cameras

Care

Character

Clever

Compassion

Confusion

Couple

Crazy

Curious

Decision

Depressing

Destruction

Differences

Doe

Doors

Easier

Embarrassing

Events

Exciting

Faces

Fate

Feels

Foolish

Forgive Yourself

Forgiving

Fun

Girl

Giving

Giving Up

Gone

Guy

Hair

Half

Heart

Hell

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Quotes by Curtis Sittenfeld

Curtis Sittenfeld

… it struck me as so hard to believe I was really getting what I wanted; it was always easier to feel the lack of something than the thing itself.

… nothing broke my heart like the slow death of a shared joke that had once seemed genuinely funny.

Anyone who’s really interested in anything spends time alone.

Foolish names and foolish faces often appear in public places.

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