Ruby Lang > Quotes

“So you’re saying that, like dick, zucchini is abundant and low value.”
― Ruby Lang, Open House

“I never talk to my friends anymore.” “You hate your friends,” Nat said. “Yes, but I’ve known them all so long.”
― Ruby Lang, Playing House

“I still say your debt’s not about you. It’s the economy,” Ty murmured.”
― Ruby Lang, Open House

“Every seed or cutting must come from somewhere. You need soil and water to grow a new life.”
― Ruby Lang, Open House

“My parents don’t know how to tell people what my job is so they switch to English. Our Fay is a PARTNER in a FIRM in NEW YORK MANHATTAN. And then everyone assumes I’m a lawyer. I don’t even bother to try to correct them anymore.”
― Ruby Lang, Playing House

“And he looks at you like you’re a lake and he’s parched.”
― Ruby Lang, Hard Knocks

“The apartment was like an old Gothic cathedral that had changed styles midway through building because the construction had outlasted the lives of the people putting it together.”
― Ruby Lang, Playing House

“Maybe those aren’t stars, maybe they’re planets.” “Even better,” Magda said. “You can’t live on a star. But you can always hope for a planet.”
― Ruby Lang, Open House

“It’s okay,” Ty said. “It really should be certified public asshole. Besides, she’s called me worse.”
― Ruby Lang, Open House

“Dad said we were going to get more conservative as we got older, but somehow I don’t think that’s happening with you.”
― Ruby Lang, Open House

“It’s as if all the things buried here rose up again, thrived. They always wanted to live and they created a new life for themselves. What I’m trying to say is, I love this. My mother would have loved this. And I am happy to accept this 136th Street Garden’s offer. I think we have a deal.”
― Ruby Lang, Open House

“She’s read everything by Toni Morrison twice already. Although I suppose it doesn’t sound so bad when you put it that way.”
― Ruby Lang, Playing House

“But why did he suddenly feel so—not happy, not relieved, but...alert? Interested. He hadn’t felt interested in anything for a long time.”
― Ruby Lang, Playing House

“My brother the L.L. Bean superhero,” she said, giving him a peck on the cheek.”
― Ruby Lang, Open House

“Oliver tried not to look like a rich asshole or a person with too much curiosity about other people’s meds.”
― Ruby Lang, Playing House

“If he recalled correctly—and in his determined state, he couldn’t quite be sure he would—Stanford White had been a horrendous perv.”
― Ruby Lang, Playing House

“Believe me, it’s not you, it’s the economy.”
― Ruby Lang, Open House

“The neighbors are fine. They are very nice.” She spat that word out.”
― Ruby Lang, Playing House

“Everyone says you are my kindest child. But you are quiet but stubborn. It is a slow strength. Sometimes I don’t recognize your qualities because they’re so different from what I know.”
― Ruby Lang, Playing House

“Fuck you, Nat.” “Love you, too. And in my humble opinion as a risk analyst, you really do have nothing to lose.”
― Ruby Lang, Playing House

“Tyson Yang did many things to her that she didn’t feel like analyzing, but he didn’t creep her out.”
― Ruby Lang, Open House

“Well, he’d laid out his arguments long ago, but his informed opinion about a healthy neighborhood for his non-driving mother to live in hadn’t counted for much.”
― Ruby Lang, Playing House

“She was thirty-two years old; it was a Friday night; and she was in a hoodie, eating popcorn and cereal, reading about brain trauma, and hate-watching hockey.”
― Ruby Lang, Hard Knocks

“You’re an accountant. It’s your job to make people follow rules and not ordinary ones, either. You work on their taxes,” Jenny said. “Taxes are the ultimate in rules.”
― Ruby Lang, Open House

“if ol’ Stanford was going to be loathsome, he might have redeemed himself by also being useful.”
― Ruby Lang, Playing House

“It was the opinion of many in the garden that Mrs. Hadley spoiled those plants, although how anyone could spoil a plant was a question that he had not yet had the courage to pose to the ladies of 136th Street Community Garden.”
― Ruby Lang, Open House

“This from a person who falls in love with a new guy every couple of weeks and dumps him when he turns up with the wrong color shoes.”
― Ruby Lang, Playing House

“Sometimes you’re alert, you’re looking around. Then suddenly you see something—someone—and you get this dreamy far-off look that I remember from high school, and then your eyes get sad and hungry, and I get an overwhelming urge to feed you another pastelillo. You’ve had five already this morning.”
― Ruby Lang, Open House

“Right. Byron was clearly fine. He wasn’t confused. He hadn’t been mugged or hit on the head. He wasn’t being held hostage by a group of mutant, pizza-eating turtles who lived in the subways.”
― Ruby Lang, Open House