Catapult
Emily Fridlund
Top 10 Best Quotes
“This was the best and worst thing about my wife: she felt sorry for me. When I put my work boots on the mantel or fell asleep on her side of the bed, she'd groan and clench her teeth. She'd kiss me, long and deep, a sigh of disappointment.”
“This is how you keep a best friend: you talk out of guilt, you live in separate states. Again and again, you vow fidelity to her in fits of absurd hopefulness. It is the same as being in love.”
“My wife could take your skin off with one glance, she was that excruciating. She could call you to her with one finger. She could do long division in her head. Another thing she could do really well was sob, and I envied her this, assuming it left nothing to eat at her inside.”
“Her love for him has always been the underdog. She roots for it as if from a distance. She imagines what they must look like through the uncurtained window, the picture of tranquil domesticity they must now make. He smells like cilantro and beer, like curry and rain. And underneath that, he smells like himself, like nobody else, his body alarming because it is already so familiar.”
“With most people in my life, I come to the end of myself pretty fast. I walk to my borders--where there's dinner on a dropleaf table, maybe small talk or sex--then wave politely and turn back.”
“We were fourteen. Childhood was almost all we'd ever known. Every awkward pause brought us back to it.”
“My father is a good man, but what do you do with all the good men in the world? There are too many already. Sometimes you want someone less good.”
“It wasn't that Lora couldn't sleep, but she chose to avoid her dreams, which she said were better than life. 'I don't need the disappointment in the morning,' she told me, scooping coffee grounds into the paper filter.”
“I tried to concentrate, but I didn't like how Noah's family was looking at me so long, hoping so hard that I was sweet and harmless and possibly Christian.”
“He sounded like he'd given the world and its problems a good once-over and made up his mind without regrets. I admired his peace, because I was always getting trapped in thinking one way about a thing and then thinking the exact opposite.”
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Book Keywords:
disappointment, limitations, friendship, borders, love, dreams, good-men, limits, peace, boundaries, familiarity, pity
