“She was starting to feel a little like a hamburger at a dieters’ convention. Nobody was likely to snack on her, but absolutely everybody noticed she was edible.”
“It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same she had that feeling. Cheated.”
“She was writing for everybody, for nobody, for our age, for her own...”
“Elizabeth scowled, feeling like a nobody, a nothing. She felt like her entire self had been made worthless. She could change her interests, but she couldn’t change her looks. She’d never be six feet tall. She’d never look like a supermodel.”
“Funny how an absence can feel like a presence, like that space practically glows with her outline and make me notice how she's not here.”
“She was like Marat only with nobody to kill her.”