The Ex Talk
Rachel Lynn Solomon
Top 10 Best Quotes
“The thing about losing someone is that it doesn’t happen just once. It happens every time you do something great you wish they could see, every time you’re stuck and you need advice. Every time you fail. It erodes your sense of normal, and what grows back is decidedly not normal, and yet you still have to figure out how to trudge forward.”
“So often, I'm trapped between the pain of remembering and the fear of forgetting.”
“What would a mediocre white man do?” she asks.”
“But maybe that’s what we all are—halfway-broken people searching for things that will smooth our jagged edges.”
“You don't have to explain,' I say, though all I want is a detailed explanation with an accompanying PowerPoint presentation.”
“Sometimes I feel like I'm playing at being an adult, like I'm constantly looking around, waiting for a real adult to tell me what to do if my garbage disposal starts making a weird sound or if I should be putting more money in my Roth IRA. I am just...I feel like a complete mess.”
“Make people cry, and then make them laugh,” my dad would say. “But most of all, make sure you’re telling a good story.”
“I used to think that without my dad, I'd never be whole again. But maybe that's what we all are --- halfway-broken people searching for things that will smooth our jagged edges.”
“Sometimes I wonder if content is really just a synonym for complacent.”
“I guess I just thought I'd have everything figured out by now. I'm almost thirty, and I don't know if I feel any closer than when I was twenty-one or even twenty-five. There's so much pressure to have all of this shit figured out, and I don't have a clue what I'm doing.”
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Book Keywords:
sad-but-true, pain, grief-and-loss
