8 Quotes by Adrienne Stoltz

I won't do that when I'm a parent. I'll make different mistakes, of course.

It's hard to tell the difference between how we want someone to feel about us and how we actually feel about them. If the person is attractive, we always want them to want us, and sometimes we get so busy trying to make that happen, we forget to keep track of whether we actually want them or not. Plus, we always want what we're afraid we can't get.

The adult world that runs our school considers this a teachable moment (a new phrase for our era) where children will learn to process loss and grief and loneliness by sitting in the football bleachers and being presented with the truth of mortality. There's nothing to be taught. Only something to be felt.

I found Bill in the sky. In the stars. Like on your ceiling.

She needs life to be no bigger or harder to solve than the stuff she edits for the magazine. What would happen if a real crisis occurred, someone got cancer or a brain tumor or something? I think she'd handle it by reducing it to editorial size, denying its real scope and consequences, and telling herself that she's being practical by not getting overwhelmed.

I only want to be with someone I actually love. Love has never happened to me. I guess I'm afraid it never will. But all of a sudden, I have this rock-solid conviction that I don't want to settle for less.

It’s hard to tell the difference between how we want someone to feel about us and how we actually feel about them. If the person is attractive, we always want them to want us, and sometimes we get so busy trying to make that happen, we forget to keep track of whether we actually want them or not. Plus, we always want what we’re afraid we can’t get.

I only want to be with someone I actually love. Love has never happened to me. I guess I’m afraid it never will. But all of a sudden, I have this rock-solid conviction that I don’t want to settle for less.