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> [“Having a daughter whose company he actually enjoyed was one of Jim’s favorite accomplishments. The odds were against you, in all matters of family planning. You couldn’t choose to have a boy or a girl; you couldn’t choose to have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emma-straub/having-a-daughter-whose-company-he-actually-enjoyed-was-one-of-jim-s/)

[Emma Straub](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emma-straub/)

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## More by Emma Straub

> [“Now whenever Franny or Jim spoke to someone who kept a car in Manhattan, they reacted with quiet horror, like people who’d been subjected…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emma-straub/now-whenever-franny-or-jim-spoke-to-someone-who-kept-a-car-in/)

[Emma Straub](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emma-straub/)

> [“There was nothing in life harder or more important than agreeing every morning to stay the course, to go back to your forgotten self…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emma-straub/there-was-nothing-in-life-harder-or-more-important-than-agreeing/)

[Emma Straub](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emma-straub/)

> [“Having a daughter whose company he actually enjoyed was one of Jim’s favorite accomplishments. The odds were against you, in all matters of family…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emma-straub/having-a-daughter-whose-company-he-actually-enjoyed-was-one-of-jim-s/)

[Emma Straub](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emma-straub/)

> [“Once Charles arrived, Franny would start laughing the way she had when she was twenty-four, and the rest of them could start setting one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emma-straub/once-charles-arrived-franny-would-start-laughing-the-way-she-had-when/)

[Emma Straub](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emma-straub/)

> [“Teenagers and younger children did not need to sit in business class, let alone first—that was Franny’s philosophy. The extra room was for people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emma-straub/teenagers-and-younger-children-did-not-need-to-sit-in-business-class/)

[Emma Straub](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emma-straub/)

> [“What were parents anyway, except two people who had once thought they were the smartest people in the world? They were a delusional species,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emma-straub/what-were-parents-anyway-except-two-people-who-had-once-thought-they/)

[Emma Straub](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emma-straub/)

> [“It's a rental," I said, realizing when I said it that our house was the only rental on the block. Maybe something unseemly had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emma-straub/it-s-a-rental-i-said-realizing-when-i-said-it-that-our-house-was-the/)

[Emma Straub](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emma-straub/)

> [“Timing was everything—that was more and more obvious the older you got, when you finally understood that the universe wasn’t held together in any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emma-straub/timing-was-everything-that-was-more-and-more-obvious-the-older-you/)

[Emma Straub](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emma-straub/)

> [“to be a hypocrite or a liar? Jim wasn’t”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emma-straub/to-be-a-hypocrite-or-a-liar-jim-wasn-t/)

[Emma Straub](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emma-straub/)

> [“Elizabeth was happy in her marriage, she really was. It was just that sometimes she thought about all the experiences she’d never gotten to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emma-straub/elizabeth-was-happy-in-her-marriage-she-really-was-it-was-just-that/)

[Emma Straub](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emma-straub/)

> [“It was crazy, what young people believed was possible, what so many earnest twenty-three-year-olds took for granted about the rest of their lives.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emma-straub/it-was-crazy-what-young-people-believed-was-possible-what-so-many/)

[Emma Straub](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emma-straub/)

> [“...all she wanted was a button she could push to pause her age, just for a little while, a few years, while she got…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emma-straub/all-she-wanted-was-a-button-she-could-push-to-pause-her-age-just-for/)

[Emma Straub](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emma-straub/)

> [“No on thought that they would be anything more or less than perfectly fine.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emma-straub/no-on-thought-that-they-would-be-anything-more-or-less-than-perfectly/)

[Emma Straub](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emma-straub/)

> [“That was what love was, though, wasn't it? Holding each other's misery as close as your own?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emma-straub/that-was-what-love-was-though-wasn-t-it-holding-each-other-s-misery/)

[Emma Straub](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emma-straub/)

> [“A good swimming pool could do that—make the rest of the world seem impossibly insignificant, as far away as the surface of the moon.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emma-straub/a-good-swimming-pool-could-do-that-make-the-rest-of-the-world-seem/)

[Emma Straub](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emma-straub/)

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