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So much of being a good friend was knowing when to keep your mouth shut. — Emma Straub

It glowed in the mid-morning sunlight, the black shutters on the open windows eyelashes on a beautiful face. — Emma Straub

I mean, it's never too late to decide to do something else. Becoming an adult doesn't mean that you suddenly have all the answers. — Emma Straub

Families were nothing more than hope cast out in a wide net, everyone wanting only the best. — Emma Straub

Choices were easy to make until you realized how long life could be. — Emma Straub

Happy was a word for sorority girls and clowns, and those were two distinctly fucked-up groups of people. — 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. — Emma Straub

It was the most beautiful dress Harry had ever seen. It wasn't just a dress; it was a religion. — Emma Straub

to be a hypocrite or a liar? Jim wasn't — Emma Straub

It seemed like folly to imagine that one could fill a house (or a tent) with relatives and still expect to have a pleasant vacation. — Emma Straub

Parenthood is the only job that gets progressively harder every single year, and you never, ever, ever get a raise. — Emma Straub

Maybe that was the answer to good parenting - pretending the first child was the second. — Emma Straub

They were just wading through the muck like everyone else. — Emma Straub

They were with their mother, and so they were acting like children. — Emma Straub

A good boy almost all of the time, as well behaved as a loyal hound — Emma Straub

the night before, but now, moments before their scheduled departure, he was wavering. Had he packed enough books? He walked back and forth in front — Emma Straub

There was nothing about youth that was fair: the young hadn't done anything to deserve it, and the old hadn't done anything to drive it away. — Emma Straub

Me tienen hasta los huevos. It means I've had it up to my balls. — Emma Straub

No on thought that they would be anything more or less than perfectly fine. — Emma Straub

Laura was going to sew herself into the shape of happiness all on her own. — Emma Straub

Why couldn't everyone stay young forever? If not on the outside, then just on the inside, where no one ever got too old to be optimistic. — Emma Straub

Taylor Swift had probably slept with more people than she had, and good for her. — Emma Straub

Things that happen in seven years: Brad Pitt in Tibet. The itch. — Emma Straub

They had chosen to make the leap and, having leapt, were delighted to find that the world was even more beautiful than they'd hoped. — Emma Straub

The Internet was excellent for confirming one's worst fears about the human race. — Emma Straub

Laura wanted all of it back, every moment, so that she could live it all over again. — Emma Straub

... She was as beautiful and lost as a landlocked mermaid. — Emma Straub

Dogs were gloriously uncomplicated creatures - food and play and sleep and love, that was all they needed. — Emma Straub

Kids are forever, even if love isn't, right? — Emma Straub

the major accomplishment of her life was producing two children who seemed to like each other even when no one else was looking, — Emma Straub

There wasn't enough time in the world, not for the things that mattered most. — 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 used to the idea. — Emma Straub

Leaving. That was the word she liked to use. Not going away, which implied a return, but leaving, which implied a jet plane. — Emma Straub

Jim's vague understanding was that she had so much money that a strict job description was superfluous. — Emma Straub

She wanted the world to stop and take notice before hobbling forward, forever changed. The problem was that no one seemed to be changed but her. — Emma Straub

Some people smoked crack in alleyways. Franny ate chocolate. On the scale of things, it seemed entirely reasonable. — 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. — Emma Straub

If I'd had a friend next to me, I would have squeezed her arm and said, Can you believe this? - but kitsch wasn't kitsch if you were alone. — Emma Straub

Maybe that was the key to all good relationships, having oceans of time apart. — Emma Straub