Family Quote 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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,…

— 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…

— 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…

— Emma Straub

“to be a hypocrite or a liar? Jim wasn’t”

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“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…

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“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.”

— 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…

— Emma Straub