Matt Goldman > Quotes

“When you’re looking to share a life you’ve already built rather than find a partner with whom to build your life, the bar gets terribly high.”
― Matt Goldman, Broken Ice

“Either he or his sweater smelled a bit ripe. He looked the type to use an ineffective deodorant rock rather than laboratory-tested chemicals.”
― Matt Goldman, Gone to Dust

“She sat next to her husband of sixty-seven years. I know because that’s how she introduced him. “This is Arthur, my husband of sixty-seven years.” Arthur Mayer did not speak. He rode shotgun in a vehicle called marriage.”
― Matt Goldman, Dead West

“Ruby and Lawrence laughed hard. A shared celebration. Sparks still flew. After fifty-plus years of marriage. I envied them.”
― Matt Goldman, Carolina Moonset

“As for the subject matter of this book, I hope for an alien invasion so the 99 percent of people on Earth who share 99 percent of the same values will unite and force the alien invaders to retreat, taking with them the 1 percent of humanoids they left behind the last time they were here. Maybe with that 1 percent gone, the scar tissue in our ears will heal, and we can listen to one another.”
― Matt Goldman, The Shallows

“Silver”
― Matt Goldman, The Shallows

“when you’re uncomfortable expressing emotion, you replace that emotion with humor.”
― Matt Goldman, Carolina Moonset