Pretty Quotes

“Fall and I'll catch you. And that was all I'd ever wanted- someone to catch me.”
― Jillian Lauren, Pretty

“I look for a sign. Where to go next. you never know when you'll get one. Even the most faithless among us are waiting to be proven wrong.”
― Jillian Lauren, Pretty

“Some days seem like the end of your life but then they aren't and you still have to figure out how to wake up again.”
― Jillian Lauren, Pretty

“The air hangs thick with awkward static, like it usually does around the endless parade of therapists, social workers, and grief counselors. Does anyone feel comfortable in these tableaux of forced intimacy where you're meant to shine a light in your darkest corners for someone who is supposed to be nonjudgmental? As if there is such an animal”
― Jillian Lauren, Pretty

“Life is a constant series of cleaning up the last mess.”
― Jillian Lauren, Pretty

“You have to be careful how you fake it, though, because things like that can stick and before you know it you become what you're pretending to be..”
― Jillian Lauren, Pretty

“I pretend I'm fighting to live in the present but really I'm having an affair with the past every secret moment.”
― Jillian Lauren, Pretty

“How can there be so much bullshit in just a little 'Hello, how are you?' that it makes me want to stick my head in the oven? She is listening to see if I'm drunk; I'm listening to see if she's drunk. And both of us are broke and depressed and alone and hanging on to our respective life rafts by a pinkie nail. So you can see that the truthful conversation is not the one you want to have, either.”
― Jillian Lauren, Pretty

“I love rooftops. I love a view from anywhere. Any vantage point from which you can see further than the immediate ground in front of you.”
― Jillian Lauren, Pretty