Quotes by Adelle Waldman

About Adelle Waldman:

Adelle Waldman is an American novelist, columnist and blogger, known for her 2013 novel The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P., and for her articles for Slate and Vogue magazines and the blog Gawker.
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He had a bad habit of initially zeroing in on one or two things he liked about every new girl he found himself interested in, as if to justify his attraction.

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Dating is probably the most fraught human interaction there is. You're sizing people up to see if they're worth your time and attention, and they're doing the same to you. It's meritocracy applied to personal life, but there's no accountability. We s...

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People expect girls from good middle-class families to be smart -- but what they mean by smart for a girl is to have nice handwriting and a neat locker and to do her homework on time. They don't expect ideas or much in the way of real thought.

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If his relative success hadn't made him happy, it had, on average, made him less unhappy.

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When you're single, your weekend days are wide-open vistas that extend in every direction; in a relationship, they're like the sky over Manhattan: punctured, hemmed in, compressed.

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The words trailed off, and she smiled helplessly as she waited for him to rescue her from her own sentence. Nate's thoughts had been far removed from relationship issues, and he didn't feel like getting drawn into another of these conversations. He a...

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Author Bio

  • NameAdelle Waldman
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • CountryUnited States Of America