Quote by Emma Straub Download Open image ““No on thought that they would be anything more or less than perfectly fine.”” — Emma Straub ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
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“Please believe that things are going good with me. Even if they're not they will be soon enough.” — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
“Oh no, princess. I would never carry out anything which could harm your being. This was just something I was told to say. I'm… — Chayada Welljaipet Copy Share Image
“They could not all be right. At least, some had to be more right than others. Or less wrong.” — Bernard Wolfe Copy Share Image
“I try not to think too much. Like other things now, thought must be rationed.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Some things were inevitable. You'd have to be a fool to think otherwise.” — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
“I’ve thought things were impossible before, and so far, none of them actually were.” — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“I mean, they were really high and pointy, and although I'm not clumsy, they were potentially lethal both to me and anyone in my… — Myra McEntire Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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… — Emma Straub Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“...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 Copy Share Image
