“It was nice to be in such close physical proximity, even though they hadn't spoken in months, and only via cursory birthday… — Emma Straub Sister Copy Share Image
“Maybe that was the key to all good relationships, having oceans of time apart.” — Emma Straub Good relationship Copy Share Image
“If I'd had a friend next to me, I would have squeezed her arm and said, Can you believe this? - but… — Emma Straub Friendship Copy Share Image
“Families were nothing more than hope cast out in a wide net, everyone wanting only the best.” — Emma Straub Family Copy Share Image
“She had the wild look of someone who hadn’t slept in twenty-four hours, with purplish semicircles underneath both her eyes. Being eighteen… — Emma Straub Youth Copy Share Image
“Some people smoked crack in alleyways. Franny ate chocolate. On the scale of things, it seemed entirely reasonable.” — Emma Straub Chocolate Copy Share Image
“Laura wanted all of it back, every moment, so that she could live it all over again.” — Emma Straub Every moment Copy Share Image
“They were with their mother, and so they were acting like children.” — Emma Straub Children Copy Share Image
“If the Enchanted Forest were in a movie, they’d always be playing Bob Dylan or Van Morrison or maybe even Leonard Cohen… — Emma Straub Van Morrison Copy Share Image
“Even if she wasn't happy on the inside, the outside could be something else entirely. There was always another character to play.” — Emma Straub Copy Share Image
“Some people claimed that wisdom came with age, but Annie had never found that to be true. Look at all the old… — Emma Straub Age Copy Share Image
“Islands, being harder to get to, naturally separated some of the wheat from the chaff, which was the entire philosophy behind places… — Emma Straub Children Copy Share Image
“It is not so much a matter of traveling as of getting away; which of us has not some pain to dull,… — Emma Straub Travel Copy Share Image
“Like most things, sex got better with age until one hit a certain plateau, and then it was like breakfast, unlikely to… — Emma Straub Copy Share Image
