16 Quotes by Alexis Schaitkin

Not all the guests are beautiful, but they all have a certain something. A wellness, maybe. Terrible things may happen to any person, rich or poor, white or brown, and I'm sure terrible things have happened to some of they, but they don't appear so. They appear like they believe the universe loves them, and maybe it does.

Here's some words of wisdom for you: Don't ever try to out-talk a woman. They store the right language up so it's ready to throw down when the time comes.

Here's the thing about women: If the world was only women, there wouldn't be language at all. They don't need it

Small world,' the blonde boy says when he puts together that a teammate from his high school soccer team is in Alison's dorm at Princeton. 'In the sense that our worlds are small,' she retorts.

When a person you love dies, the calendar becomes a minefield. Anyone who has lost someone knows this. There is the loved one’s birthday. One’s own Birthday. Various national and religious holidays, if one is religious. All of these days are difficult in their own ways. But the anniversary is different. On the anniversary of the loved one’s death, you slip backward through time to this same day, one, five, ten years ago. You live it all over again, minute by minute.

It's a relief to be on a straightforward beach vacation. No endangered species or ancient city walls to capture.

What a relief to find, in middle age, that there are still interests waiting inside of you to be discovered...

My mother could always be counted on to prattle on about something we both knew neither of us carried about.

These resorts often have an obsession with white. White buildings, white floors, white linens, white uniforms. Like they’re trying to convince you you’ve died and gone to heaven, or like you’ve arrived at some hedonistic sanatorium because you’re afflicted by something and you didn’t even know it but now you will heal.