Emily Dee > Quotes

“But there is a photo of Ethan and Olivia. Together. At the family barbecue fourteen months ago. Three months before Noah died. His hand on her back. Her head tilted toward him." I held the phone up. Not to Ethan. To the room. "This is not the body language of brother-in-law and family friend. This is the body language of two people who are already together." Ethan stood. "Kayla, stop. You're upset about the fertility stuff and you're projecting⁠—" "I found the paternity test." The room stopped breathing.”
― Emily Dee, His Brother's Baby

“went slow. Not because I was unsure — because I'd waited three weeks and three weeks of waiting had taught me that the thing on the other side of patience is worth every second of the patience itself.”
― Emily Dee, His Brother's Baby

“just a man who'd made peace with silence and hadn't yet realized that peace and loneliness wear the same face.”
― Emily Dee, No Pucks Given

“How do you know this?" "I know everything about everyone in that organization. It's the most useful personality disorder I have.”
― Emily Dee, No Pucks Given

“Cushion upholstered in a linen I'd bought from a textile shop Kayla had mentioned once in passing — cream-colored, soft, the kind of fabric that felt like a held breath.”
― Emily Dee, His Brother's Baby

“in the background — unposed, unnoticed, captured accidentally by whoever was photographing the cousins — Ethan and Olivia. By the drinks table. His hand on her lower back. Her head tilted toward him. Not performing. Not posing. Just existing in each other's space with the unconscious ease of two people whose bodies already knew each other.”
― Emily Dee, His Brother's Baby

“Don't do that. Don't rank pain. Pain isn't a competition.”
― Emily Dee, No Pucks Given

“Slide forty-seven. About twenty-two minutes into the rotation at normal speed.”
― Emily Dee, Ring Cam Caught

“painted the color of a held breath.”
― Emily Dee, His Brother's Baby

“even knowing the baby was Ethan's, even knowing the nursery was a monument to a lie, I couldn't make myself do it badly. I don't know how to do things badly. It's not a virtue. It's a compulsion.”
― Emily Dee, His Brother's Baby

“People forgive affairs. They don't forgive theft.”
― Emily Dee, No Pucks Given

“Dani," I said. "When does Gordon go to The Alderman?" She grinned. "Friday. After home games. Booth in the back. Whiskey neat. Phone face-down." "How do you know this?" "I know everything about everyone in that organization. It's the most useful personality disorder I have.”
― Emily Dee, No Pucks Given

“I know what everyone believes. I've been watching everyone believe it for eight months.”
― Emily Dee, His Brother's Baby

“But there was something else. A barbecue. Fourteen months ago.”
― Emily Dee, His Brother's Baby

“Do you miss her?" "I miss having someone to come home to. But I don't miss pretending we were happy.”
― Emily Dee, No Pucks Given

“Then — not from me, not from Jeff, not from anyone I expected — a single person started clapping. Jeff's mother. She was standing at Table 6, tears on her face, clapping with the grim determination of a woman who'd just watched her son get exactly what he deserved and loved him too much to pretend otherwise.”
― Emily Dee, No Pucks Given

“I felt gaslit. By my own life.”
― Emily Dee, No Pucks Given

“The problem was sleeping next to me with his hand on my hip and his conscience at a comfortable zero.”
― Emily Dee, His Brother's Baby

“I need proof," I said. "I know." "Not your gut. Not what you remember about Noah's dating life. Proof that can't be denied, can't be explained away, can't be talked out of by a man who is very, very good at talking." "I know that too." "Then I need to look. And I need you to not say a word to anyone — not Ashley, not Michael, not anyone — until I find it." He nodded.”
― Emily Dee, His Brother's Baby