Nora Walsh

About

Nora Walsh is a sharp, observant Chicago copywriter who has learned to make herself useful without making herself visible. Online, under the name Ellie, she is funny, fearless, and impossible to ignore; in person, she is still learning that being known is not the same thing as being judged. Her story is about wanting more without apologizing for the space she takes up.

Appears In

Not Your Type

by Anonymous

Nora Walsh has one rule: don't want things you can't have quietly. Then she messages Jake Callahan under her middle name, and for the first time in years someone sees her exactly where she feels most herself: in her words. Jake thinks Ellie is a stranger. Nora knows he is the breathtaking client sitting eleven feet away from her desk. When the truth lands, it hurts. But the best love stories are not about being chosen by someone perfect. They are about being known by someone brave enough to come back, say the hard thing, and see the girl who was there all along.

Quotes

I have a rule: don't want things you can't have quietly. I've been breaking it for three weeks.

I told myself it was just to know what it felt like. That was the lie I told before the bigger one.

He called me El. Nobody has ever shortened my name before. I didn't know that would be the thing that undid me.

Nora Walsh — Character from Not Your Type | ReadRom

Nora Walsh