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Goodbye, Vitamin

Rachel Khong

Top 10 Best Quotes

“What imperfect carriers of love we are, and what imperfect givers. That the reasons we can care for one another can have nothing to do with the person cared for. That it has only to do with who we were around that person—what we felt about that person.”

“If I were you is something I’ve never really understood. Why say, “If I were you”? Why say, “If I were you,” when the problem is you’re not me? I wish people would say, “Since I am me,” followed by whatever advice it is they have.”

“Sharing things is how things get started, and not sharing things is how they end.”

“You know what else I unfair, about Joel? That I loosened the jar lid, so somebody else could open him up.”

“A long time ago I stopped wondering why there are so many crazy people. What surprises me now is that there are so many sane ones.”

“It doesn’t matter who remembers what, I guess, so long as somebody remembers something.”

“Today we went over to your mother’s friend’s house for dinner. We’d asked you to be polite, so you said, “No more, please, it’s horrible thank you.”

“It’s all so messed up. I think what it is, is that when I was young, my mother was her best version of herself. And here I am, now, a shitty grown-up, and messing it all up, and a disappointment. What imperfect carriers of love we are, and what imperfect givers. That the reasons we can care for one another can have nothing to do with the person cared for. That it has only to do with who we were around that person—what we felt about that person. Here’s the fear: she gave to us, and we took from her, until she disappeared.”

“It was grotesque, the way I kept trying to save that relationship. Like trying to tuck an elephant into pants.”

“I don't know how I got to be thirty. I don't feel thirty, the way I felt so definitely nine, and thirteen, and twenty-one.”

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crazy, wish, sane, love, mother, disappointment, advice, memory, polite

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