Meredith Goldstein > Quotes

“It was like I was fighting a biological imperative if I wasn't touching him.”
― Meredith Goldstein, Chemistry Lessons

“In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.”
― Meredith Goldstein, Things That Grow: A YA Road Trip Novel About Grief, Gardens, and First Love

“She was like a full-size, angry Tinkerbell, her thick dark eyeliner looking like a kind of war paint on her tiny pale lids.”
― Meredith Goldstein, Chemistry Lessons

“Men do this. They don't talk. They process internally, on their own, and then it's too late to work through it. He had probably broken up with you in his mind months ago.”
― Meredith Goldstein, Chemistry Lessons

“I hit reply and typed, thanks for thinking of me, because at least he had.”
― Meredith Goldstein, Chemistry Lessons

“It always amazed me how theater people could be like this, forever on, always ready to make use of the spotlight. I supposed scientists could be naturals too.”
― Meredith Goldstein, Chemistry Lessons

“I hit reply and typed, *Thanks for thinking of me,* because at least he had.”
― Meredith Goldstein, Chemistry Lessons

“But I would remember all of this—every detail. If I could get him to change his mind, I would tell him everything he missed.”
― Meredith Goldstein, Chemistry Lessons