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“ 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. ”

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So much for being a good friend was knowing when to keep your mouth shut.

~ Emma Straub

Why bother getting married, going through all the pomp and pageantry, if you didn't think it was going to last? It was far easier to live in sin and not have to deal with the paperwork.

~ Emma Straub

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

~ Emma Straub

It was so long ago now that the job felt like part of her soul. Like being a teacher or an artist who made things out of sand. You never really saw the results. You just trusted that you knew what you were doing and that everything would work out okay in the end.

~ Emma Straub