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Top 30 Alissa Nutting Quotes (2024 Update)

Alissa Nutting Quote: “Melted cheese is a culinary veil... a foxhole where mediocrity can hide.”

1. “Melted cheese is a culinary veil... a foxhole where mediocrity can hide.”

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Alissa Nutting Quote: “Do you know how when people are really hungry they will be driven to eat the inedible? Grass and soil and the like? That also happens with love. If you want love badly enough, you will start gobbling harmful substitutes like attention and possessions.”

2. “Do you know how when people are really hungry they will be driven to eat the inedible? Grass and soil and the like? That also happens with love. If you want love badly enough, you will start gobbling harmful substitutes like attention and possessions.”

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Alissa Nutting Quote: “Like most pronounced flaws, it did not live in isolation.”

3. “Like most pronounced flaws, it did not live in isolation.”

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Alissa Nutting Quote: “Why am I always the nerd at the party? I am in my thirties and by now I should at least know how to pretend.”

4. “Why am I always the nerd at the party? I am in my thirties and by now I should at least know how to pretend.”

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Alissa Nutting Quote: “Her breasts have a soft expanding look about them, like rising bread.”

5. “Her breasts have a soft expanding look about them, like rising bread.”

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Alissa Nutting Quote: “His eyes took in the details of my body with a conflicted gaze that I knew well: even having seen all the facts of the case, he still wanted me. He wanted me despite knowing what that meant about him.”

6. “His eyes took in the details of my body with a conflicted gaze that I knew well: even having seen all the facts of the case, he still wanted me. He wanted me despite knowing what that meant about him.”

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Alissa Nutting Quote: “When had she so internalized the feeling that if something wasn’t great she needed to bridge the gap between reality and idealism with her own manufactured enthusiasm? Her enthusiasm was like one of those faux snow machines at a ski resort. For most of her life it had been churning out synthetic delight. It had basically forgotten the original recipe.”

7. “When had she so internalized the feeling that if something wasn’t great she needed to bridge the gap between reality and idealism with her own manufactured enthusiasm? Her enthusiasm was like one of those faux snow machines at a ski resort. For most of her life it had been churning out synthetic delight. It had basically forgotten the original recipe.”

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Alissa Nutting Quote: “Aliens struck me as being rather goth.”

8. “Aliens struck me as being rather goth.”

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Alissa Nutting Quote: “Maybe lifelike mannequins were the way to go in terms of hospice. They could be tailor-made for this purpose – Diane’s full breasts could lactate morphine, for example.”

9. “Maybe lifelike mannequins were the way to go in terms of hospice. They could be tailor-made for this purpose – Diane’s full breasts could lactate morphine, for example.”

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Alissa Nutting Quote: “A lot of people who know about the view from the tip-top of a bridge or tall building are dead, because they climbed up in order to jump off. But sometimes I wonder if they truly planned on jumping or if the view was just so beautiful that they realized what a wide big net beauty is, and then wanted so badly to be caught by it.”

10. “A lot of people who know about the view from the tip-top of a bridge or tall building are dead, because they climbed up in order to jump off. But sometimes I wonder if they truly planned on jumping or if the view was just so beautiful that they realized what a wide big net beauty is, and then wanted so badly to be caught by it.”

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Alissa Nutting Quote: “If she’d been smart enough to say, Your money is tempting but wow are you strange; I am too but let me just add that something does not feel right here. Something feels aggressively odd on a next-level realm I had not previously imagined, in terms of foreboding discomfort.”

11. “If she’d been smart enough to say, Your money is tempting but wow are you strange; I am too but let me just add that something does not feel right here. Something feels aggressively odd on a next-level realm I had not previously imagined, in terms of foreboding discomfort.”

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Alissa Nutting Quote: “How can I wear a leather suit that does not carry the stains of wine and blood?” asks CT, and Gustav does not answer; of course it was rhetorical.”

12. “How can I wear a leather suit that does not carry the stains of wine and blood?” asks CT, and Gustav does not answer; of course it was rhetorical.”

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Alissa Nutting Quote: “Aliens struck me as being rather goth. Luckily, in the daylight, there could be no more effective goth repellent than our home’s hideous furnishings. We had 1970s green and yellow linoleum floors. Neon orange and brown, scratchy, wool plaid furniture. And on the living room wall, a huge, earnest painting of two raccoons someone had made while serving a prison sentence.”

13. “Aliens struck me as being rather goth. Luckily, in the daylight, there could be no more effective goth repellent than our home’s hideous furnishings. We had 1970s green and yellow linoleum floors. Neon orange and brown, scratchy, wool plaid furniture. And on the living room wall, a huge, earnest painting of two raccoons someone had made while serving a prison sentence.”

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Alissa Nutting Quote: “That erasure was the gift I gave myself.”

14. “That erasure was the gift I gave myself.”

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Alissa Nutting Quote: “How best to convey that she wasn’t fraught with grief without seeming like a monster? “We’ve reached a point of acceptance with her condition,” Hazel said. She borrowed this language from a hospice pamphlet titled “Reaching a Point of Acceptance With Your Condition.” It had sat on their coffee table for weeks, unopened, then was finally thrown away when her intoxicated mother refused a bottle of Ensure by karate-chopping it down with the side of her hand and spilling it everywhere.”

15. “How best to convey that she wasn’t fraught with grief without seeming like a monster? “We’ve reached a point of acceptance with her condition,” Hazel said. She borrowed this language from a hospice pamphlet titled “Reaching a Point of Acceptance With Your Condition.” It had sat on their coffee table for weeks, unopened, then was finally thrown away when her intoxicated mother refused a bottle of Ensure by karate-chopping it down with the side of her hand and spilling it everywhere.”

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Alissa Nutting Quote: “IV cart she had to wheel everywhere she went, its bag dripping a heavy fluid that was keeping her sick instead of making her better.”

16. “IV cart she had to wheel everywhere she went, its bag dripping a heavy fluid that was keeping her sick instead of making her better.”

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Alissa Nutting Quote: “Hazel then attempted to break the doll’s head open on the nightstand like a piggy bank, but Diane’s exterior proved to be almost indestructible. This made Hazel realize Diane’s makers had designed her to be able to withstand incredible beatings, which made Hazel sad for humanity.”

17. “Hazel then attempted to break the doll’s head open on the nightstand like a piggy bank, but Diane’s exterior proved to be almost indestructible. This made Hazel realize Diane’s makers had designed her to be able to withstand incredible beatings, which made Hazel sad for humanity.”

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Alissa Nutting Quote: “My attorney rubbed his hand across his mustache and the corners of his lips several times, as though the allegation was a piece of cake he’d just eaten that had deposited crumbs all over his mouth.”

18. “My attorney rubbed his hand across his mustache and the corners of his lips several times, as though the allegation was a piece of cake he’d just eaten that had deposited crumbs all over his mouth.”

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Alissa Nutting Quote: “Or perhaps he was skilled at foreshadowing. I’d imagine a pious avoidance of sin requires that.”

19. “Or perhaps he was skilled at foreshadowing. I’d imagine a pious avoidance of sin requires that.”

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Alissa Nutting Quote: “Do you know what broccoli is like to your body? It is like a hundred-dollar bill. When you eat it, you are paying yourself with health. Do you know what a cookie is like? It is Monopoly money! You’re giving your body fraudulent currency.”

20. “Do you know what broccoli is like to your body? It is like a hundred-dollar bill. When you eat it, you are paying yourself with health. Do you know what a cookie is like? It is Monopoly money! You’re giving your body fraudulent currency.”

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Alissa Nutting Quote: “The steam of the kitchen felt like a form of amnesia, which Hazel liked. She decided she’d recommend working in a restaurant to anyone who was trying to forget everything they’d ever done.”

21. “The steam of the kitchen felt like a form of amnesia, which Hazel liked. She decided she’d recommend working in a restaurant to anyone who was trying to forget everything they’d ever done.”

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Alissa Nutting Quote: “I take my old seat by the window and start rapidly boozing. The lights change colors in ways that suggest I’m going too fast, and that is the speed I want to go.”

22. “I take my old seat by the window and start rapidly boozing. The lights change colors in ways that suggest I’m going too fast, and that is the speed I want to go.”

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Alissa Nutting Quote: “He seemed to understand that resolution didn’t need to have anything to do with truth, and to choose a sense of harmony over insight every time. I.”

23. “He seemed to understand that resolution didn’t need to have anything to do with truth, and to choose a sense of harmony over insight every time. I.”

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Alissa Nutting Quote: “Oh my God – you’re a soulless pervert!”

24. “Oh my God – you’re a soulless pervert!”

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Alissa Nutting Quote: “Hazel, stop and think for a moment! What is love if not progress?”

25. “Hazel, stop and think for a moment! What is love if not progress?”

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Alissa Nutting Quote: “We pretend when we want to forget things are dangerous, she thought, though she immediately failed to apply this concept to herself.”

26. “We pretend when we want to forget things are dangerous, she thought, though she immediately failed to apply this concept to herself.”

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Alissa Nutting Quote: “Outside, a car drove by with its stereo jovially blaring; its vibrations shook the windows in Jack’s bedroom. I couldn’t help but feel like Buck’s death had made the whole world seem a bit younger.”

27. “Outside, a car drove by with its stereo jovially blaring; its vibrations shook the windows in Jack’s bedroom. I couldn’t help but feel like Buck’s death had made the whole world seem a bit younger.”

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Alissa Nutting Quote: “I tell my wife everything.” “You didn’t tell me you were putting a chip in my brain.” “Okay. I tell my wife everything eventually.”

28. “I tell my wife everything.” “You didn’t tell me you were putting a chip in my brain.” “Okay. I tell my wife everything eventually.”

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Alissa Nutting Quote: “He resembles a postapocalyptic hummingbird who has to fly around with its own personal glass vase of nectar attached to its face since all the flowers are dead.”

29. “He resembles a postapocalyptic hummingbird who has to fly around with its own personal glass vase of nectar attached to its face since all the flowers are dead.”

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Alissa Nutting Quote: “She’d loved their courtship because it had made her feel like she was someone else, and that’d been all she’d ever wanted. Until she married Byron and had to be someone else full-time.”

30. “She’d loved their courtship because it had made her feel like she was someone else, and that’d been all she’d ever wanted. Until she married Byron and had to be someone else full-time.”

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Alissa Nutting Quote: “I’m grateful for the myriad ways you did not abuse me. I was never starved or kept inside a cage or repeatedly burned with cigarettes. I guess it just sucks how a lot of parents like their children but you didn’t like me. It also sucks how even though I didn’t really like you, I never stopped wanting you to like me, because you never cared if I liked you or didn’t.”

31. “I’m grateful for the myriad ways you did not abuse me. I was never starved or kept inside a cage or repeatedly burned with cigarettes. I guess it just sucks how a lot of parents like their children but you didn’t like me. It also sucks how even though I didn’t really like you, I never stopped wanting you to like me, because you never cared if I liked you or didn’t.”

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Alissa Nutting Quote: “When you’re a ghost, not haunting is like trying not to laugh. It tickles and pushes until it hurts. Of course there are a lot of boring ghosts who find it easy not to haunt. In the afterlife, so much is boring.”

32. “When you’re a ghost, not haunting is like trying not to laugh. It tickles and pushes until it hurts. Of course there are a lot of boring ghosts who find it easy not to haunt. In the afterlife, so much is boring.”

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