--- title: "1 Relationship Years Quotes By A.M. Homes" description: "1 Relationship Years quotes by A.M. Homes. Plus more from A.M. Homes and more Relationship Years sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d89/a-m-homes-12366_attention_i-once-jokingly-told-someone-that-every_2129573.jpg" --- > [I once jokingly told someone that every book is like a relationship. They're four or five years long - that's not so bad. They're serious. They demand a lot of attention. But I remember thinking that I wanted to have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-m-homes/i-once-jokingly-told-someone-that-every-book-is-like-a-relationship/) [A.M. Homes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-m-homes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d89/a-m-homes-12366_attention_i-once-jokingly-told-someone-that-every_2129573.jpg) ## More by A.M. Homes > [Every family has a story that it tells itself, that it passes on to the children and grandchildren. The story grows over the years,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-m-homes/every-family-has-a-story-that-it-tells-itself-that-it-passes-on-to/) [A.M. Homes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-m-homes/) > [“You can’t collect everything,” Pat says, putting the dress in with the giveaways. “Life is not a hobby.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-m-homes/you-can-t-collect-everything-pat-says-putting-the-dress-in-with-the/) [A.M. Homes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-m-homes/) > [It's my policy not to review funerals.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-m-homes/it-s-my-policy-not-to-review-funerals/) [A.M. Homes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-m-homes/) > [“I love my foot. If I had to send a part of myself to represent myself in some other country, or in some other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-m-homes/i-love-my-foot-if-i-had-to-send-a-part-of-myself-to-represent-myself/) [A.M. Homes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-m-homes/) > [The struggle is how to write optimistically when the world we're living in is not inherently optimistic. I love the idea of the family…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-m-homes/the-struggle-is-how-to-write-optimistically-when-the-world-we-re/) [A.M. Homes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-m-homes/) > [“You are your own beginning. Every day, every hour, every minute, you start again. There is no point wishing you were someone else, you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-m-homes/you-are-your-own-beginning-every-day-every-hour-every-minute-you/) [A.M. Homes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-m-homes/) > [Birthday parties make me nervous as hell. They're one of those things where you're forced to be happy. And even if you're totally depressed,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-m-homes/birthday-parties-make-me-nervous-as-hell-they-re-one-of-those-things/) [A.M. Homes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-m-homes/) > [“A fat old man has disturbed my day, coming to tell me that he has sold my childhood to a museum in Cincinnati.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-m-homes/a-fat-old-man-has-disturbed-my-day-coming-to-tell-me-that-he-has-sold/) [A.M. Homes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-m-homes/) > [“The subjects range from the pastoral (sniffing of the butt of a melon to tell if it's ripe. and almost romantically lush descriptions of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-m-homes/the-subjects-range-from-the-pastoral-sniffing-of-the-butt-of-a-melon/) [A.M. Homes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-m-homes/) > [I really don't watch enough TV to know about the impact. In my experience as a TV writer, I would say is the exact…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-m-homes/i-really-don-t-watch-enough-tv-to-know-about-the-impact-in-my/) [A.M. Homes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-m-homes/) > [I am very interested in loyalty, even if the person to whom one is loyal is flawed, criminal, or otherwise in the wrong.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-m-homes/i-am-very-interested-in-loyalty-even-if-the-person-to-whom-one-is/) [A.M. Homes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-m-homes/) > [The weird thing about having your birthday on a school day is that by the time you get to be ten, or eleven for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-m-homes/the-weird-thing-about-having-your-birthday-on-a-school-day-is-that-by/) [A.M. Homes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-m-homes/) > [My mind leaps to my theory about presidents - that there are two kinds, ones who have a lot of sex and the others…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-m-homes/my-mind-leaps-to-my-theory-about-presidents-that-there-are-two-kinds/) [A.M. Homes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-m-homes/) > [Philip Galanes makes his debut with a novel that is both heartbreaking and deftly comic, the story of a young man struggling with his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-m-homes/philip-galanes-makes-his-debut-with-a-novel-that-is-both/) [A.M. Homes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-m-homes/) > [“It's a strange city... filled with things that are not obvious.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-m-homes/it-s-a-strange-city-filled-with-things-that-are-not-obvious/) [A.M. Homes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-m-homes/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/relationship-years/a-m-homes/#itemlist", "name": "1 Relationship Years Quotes By A.M. Homes", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I once jokingly told someone that every book is like a relationship. 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