Emily Schultz > Quotes

“Moments after his death, an event he had failed to notice, Gordon Small sought new employment”
― Emily Schultz, Heaven Is Small

“when”
― Emily Schultz, Sleeping with Friends

“She hadn't been able to properly care for him, she'd realized. His mental health was like a spider's web, immaculately built, a routine of thin wires. It was too easy to smash it down just by moving around... Perhaps these were skills they'd never been taught that they still had to learn.”
― Emily Schultz, Sleeping with Friends

“It was that bond that happens only when you’re in your early twenties, when you meet a friend and know: This is the girl I would die for. This is the person I’m meant to know forever.”
― Emily Schultz, Sleeping with Friends

“I don't believe there is a bond between all women. I don't believe that sisterhood is powerful. I believe just the opposite. I believe these women were just in the right position to be kind. There was nothing to prevent them from it.”
― Emily Schultz, The Blondes

“Why was it always a woman’s job to reassure a man after he’d done something stupid and gross, she wondered”
― Emily Schultz, Sleeping with Friends

“New York State pays matching donations to political campaigns. Someone donates a hundred thousand to a candidate like Jamie. New York matches that amount. And Jamie quietly returns the original donation, plus a kickback. Charlotte could use that to pay off her debt to me, and Jamie gets to keep fifty thousand in free money for his campaign. The real secret to the rich not paying for anything is no one understands how we do it.”
― Emily Schultz, Brooklyn Kills Me

“I’ve always wondered why people who love you do that to you – give you photographs where they look beautiful, you not so much.”
― Emily Schultz, The Blondes

“People are kinder to the unborn than they are to the women themselves, and soon I had my ticket.”
― Emily Schultz, The Blondes

“What she'd been thinking about since that weekend, especially as she got out more and people asked her frequently about her "thing" was this: Art doesn't change the world. It's a record of the world changing.”
― Emily Schultz, Sleeping with Friends

“There were bonds that only happened at the end of your thirties, after you started to accept the body aches and the wrinkles that sneaked onto your face overnight. The thirties were when you finally understood why you’d been attracted to people when you were young. It was when you knew how to speak to each other and say what you really thought. It was when you learned to let others go a little, let people be, and let yourself be too. You learned to hold people accountable, and you learned to forgive.”
― Emily Schultz, Sleeping with Friends

“The pregnancy test was called First Response, as if an emergency were already waiting for me inside the pink box. Little pink firefighters with little pink ladders waiting to climb up me.”
― Emily Schultz, The Blondes