Rachel Shukert > Quotes

“Amanda was always on her way somewhere. Sometimes she thought that feeling of moving forward was the only one she trusted. She just wondered whether she’d know when she was there.”
― Rachel Shukert, Starstruck

“You’ve been in Hollywood long enough to know that all the real acting happens offscreen.”
― Rachel Shukert, Love Me

“Now, through an act as simple as walking across a stage and collecting an empty plastic folder representing a degree, our stock had plummeted to nothing, the wretched leavings of some cosmic Ponzi scheme. A lifetime's worth of planning and training and delusion gone with the wind. Some of us were moving home to live free of charge in our parents' guest rooms, or if we were thin enough, heading west to try our luck in L.A.; others, to our collective horror, were being forced to work at actual jobs.”
― Rachel Shukert, Everything Is Going to Be Great: An Underfunded and Overexposed European Grand Tour – A Hilarious Comedy Memoir of Youthful Travel, Growing Pains, and Sharp Humor

“Your brain makes sure you forget things that would rip you apart. It’s like your mind is on your side.” So”
― Rachel Shukert, Crazy Stupid Money

“Somehow I was going to have to get my money back, whatever it took. I didn’t care if I had to make my bed for a month, force lemonade down the throats of every hapless neighbor that happened to walk their dog past our front yard, shamelessly prostitute myself to my grandparents’ creepy friend Norman who would give you 50 cents for sitting on his lap and a dollar for every time you let him kiss you—and there was no turning your head so his slobbery old-man lips landed harmlessly on your hair, either; Norman had paid for skin-to-skin contact with young, firm flesh, and he was determined to get his money’s worth. (Why anyone thought that this behavior was remotely appropriate or that this man should be allowed around small children remains a mystery to me and is a story for another time, or perhaps another Kindle Single. Suffice it to say, all the relevant parties are now long dead, and as I have had no problems throughout adolescence and adulthood having”
― Rachel Shukert, Crazy Stupid Money