69 Quotes by Kristen Roupenian

Ted thought: I am probably not dying but I am scared and alone and I don't like this.

But I guess that was the whole problem, at that point, my inability to deal with normal human interaction.

. . . she thought, brightly, This is the worst life decision I have ever made! And she marveled at herself for a while, at the mystery of this person who'd just done this bizarre, inexplicable thing.

Kids are real resilient," says Babs, and all the women bob their heads. Bullshit, Marla thinks. Maybe some kids are resilient. But are all of them? Is Tilly? Resilience—the ability to brush off pain—is something Marla herself has only fitfully and imperfectly grown into, over time. The petty miseries of her own early childhood are some of her most vivid memories, even now.

What do you want to do now?" he asked her."We should probably just kill ourselves," she imagined saying.

Ted thinks: Everyone at this party could die tonight, including me, and I wouldn't even care. He gets very drunk.

I can't believe you called me," Anna said. "Nobody else from home has called me in forever. It's like they forgot about me. You think you're so close to people but when it comes down to it, they just forget.

She can feel it scratching at her, her anger, wedged in the space where the two halves of her rib cage meet.

She doesn't know what to call it—this free-falling sensation she feels every time she looks at Taylor, like her hands are closing again and again on emptiness—but she thinks she knows better than to call it love.