Quotes by : Emma Straub

Why bother getting married, going through all the pomp and pageantry, if you didn't think it was going....

...all she wanted was a button she could push to pause her age, just for a little while, a few years,....

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

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

Elizabeth ran her finger along the windowsill, gathering dust. The view was almost exactly the same as....

She had the wild look of someone who hadn’t slept in twenty-four hours, with purplish semicircles underneath....

There was nothing in life harder or more important than agreeing every morning to stay the course, to....

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

It was so long ago now that the job felt like part of her soul. Like being a teacher or an artist who....

Why couldn't everyone stay young forever? If not on the outside, then just on the inside, where no one....

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