Emily Layden > Quotes

“Sloane understands, now, how something can be simultaneously catastrophic and banal; ruinous but ordinary.”
― Emily Layden, All Girls

“not exactly. Instead what they’ll feel is a very particular kind of ache, one that will spasm at random intervals—in the shower, on a bad date, in the middle of a college seminar—and when it does they’ll know: this is the longing you feel for a place that’s become a part of you. This is the yearning you carry when you never really leave.”
― Emily Layden, All Girls

“Shopping was how Lauren’s mother expressed her love, which was not to say that she took Lauren to the mall or that they went on day trips to New York City like Grace and her mom, but rather that a to-do list that involved spending money was Susan Triplett’s love language.”
― Emily Layden, All Girls