30 Quotes by Linda Holmes

...she missed home, so she called me Eveleth. I am named after my mother’s unhappiness.

The idea here was to look like she happend to be a sex goddess, not like she spent the entire day on it.

It's not bad to know a little something about the things you don't care about,

She hadn’t yet turned to 'anti-aging,' but she figured 'revitalizing' was for over thirty and under forty, 'anti-aging' was for over forty and under seventy, and then when you were seventy, you just told everybody to fuck off.

Grieving the first call. When something happens, good or bad, you can only call one person first. And if you’ve been somebody’s first call, it’s hard not to be their first call anymore.

Everything she said, he treated like it ended in a semicolon.

You would be shocked how many people tell me that they got through cancer, or divorce, or having their house burn down. But then they lost their keys or they ran out of coffee or the dog chewed on their slipper and they fell to pieces. It’s just that last insult.

Trying to buck yourself up is the tooth pliers of mental health.

The shower cry takes the logistics out of it. Crying has to be dealt with. It makes a mess. It swells up your face. It creates a little pile of tissues that are a tell. But the shower cry is the super spy’s cry.