The Vacationers
Emma Straub
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Families were nothing more than hope cast out in a wide net, everyone wanting only the best.”
“There was nothing in life harder or more important than agreeing every morning to stay the course, to go back to your forgotten self of so many years ago, and to make the same decision. Marriages, like ships, needed steering, and steady hands at the wheel.”
“Once Charles arrived, Franny would start laughing the way she had when she was twenty-four, and the rest of them could start setting one another on fire for all she cared. That’s what best friends did: ruin people for everyone else.”
“A good swimming pool could do that—make the rest of the world seem impossibly insignificant, as far away as the surface of the moon.”
“So much of being a good friend was knowing when to keep your mouth shut.”
“She’d read all of Jane Austen that year—Austen was good, but when you told people you liked Pride and Prejudice, they expected you to be all sunshine and wedding veils, and Sylvia preferred the rainy moors. The Brontës weren’t afraid to let someone die of consumption, which Sylvia respected.”
“There was nothing in life harder or more important than agreeing every morning to stay the course, to go back to your forgotten self of so many years ago, and to make the same decision.”
“Life would be so much more interesting if one could ask all the questions one wanted to and expect honest answers.”
“Some people smoked crack in alleyways. Franny ate chocolate. On the scale of things, it seemed entirely reasonable.”
“She had the wild look of someone who hadn’t slept in twenty-four hours, with purplish semicircles underneath both her eyes. Being eighteen was like being made out of rubber and cocaine.”
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Book Keywords:
family, food, friendship, love, youth, life-lessons, relationships, chocolate, best-friends, marriage, commitment
