263 Quotes by Meg Wolitzer

Being a teacher at a restaurant in the town where you lived was a little like being a TV star...

But it had no doubt sprung from true emotion, for all that parents ever wanted, really, was for you to love their child the way they did.

New teachers were just a part of life, for a few days after one arrived, squawks of interest were emitted from various corners, but then they died away as the teacher was absorbed like everyone else...before you knew it, the fresh ones seemed to have been teaching there forever too, or else they didn't last very long, and were gone before you'd gotten to know them.

It was sort of like the way writers had long been pillaging all the good phrases from Shakespeare plays for the titles of their novels, so the only phrases still available meant nothing. Soon, Emmett thought, people would be writing novels called Enter, Guard.

If the twenty-first century taught you anything, it was that your words belonged to everyone, even if they actually didn’t.

Apparently, something can happen inside someone you love—it can just happen somehow—and like magic she thinks that she’s had enough, and that the way the two of you have been for a really long time is no longer worth the effort. Does that sound familiar to anyone.

I like being a girl. I just want to be the one who says what that means.

Maybe the secret truth about death is that dead people are whisked away from their current lives and forced to live somewhere else far away—a process similar to reincarnation but taking place not in the future but now. A sort of mortality-based witness protection program. And if you found them they would look the same as they always had. If only you knew where to find them. If only you knew where to look.

They should hand out vibrators if they're going to demand so much of you that you can't find time for a private life.