11 Quotes by Jennifer Harrison

During my completely soul-shredding midlife crisis at the age of twenty-eight, I felt sure I had peaked too soon.

Since Ireland’s independence declaration was a century older, I could not be sure if his self-evident truths meant as much as they would in America.

The word bollocks seems strong, punk rock, and imposing, but in reality, bollocks is always too tame to make much of an impact.

I had to free myself from my devotion to him... to us... without losing my ability to believe in love.

My heart had a crush on him from the moment we met, but it was faint, and the rest of me stubbornly refused to play along.

I have always been quite good at falling in love, but I don’t pretend to know anything about literal happily ever afters.

There is no question that Los Angeles expects its long-termers to survive the inevitable and chronic ass-kickings alone.

In the apocalyptic environment that is Los Angeles on fire, we should all be making a point to have a lot of sex, but no one seems particularly motivated. They need leaders, and sadly I am not up for the task.

I have never been the fiddle-dee-dee, carefree Scarlett O’Hara his fantasies imagined. I’m more of the Civil War version—tired, hard, and determined.