Brooke Averick > Quotes

“And there’s nothing wrong with you. You just get anxious sometimes.”
― Brooke Averick, Phoebe Berman's Gonna Lose It

“But it might be a while Matthew: I have a while.”
― Brooke Averick, Phoebe Berman's Gonna Lose It

“But even if we’re in different boats, I can tell Nora feels just as lost at sea as I do. Maybe it makes me a bad friend, but it brings me a little bit of comfort to think of her floating out there with me. It makes me feel less alone.”
― Brooke Averick, Phoebe Berman's Gonna Lose It

“You’ll come visit, though, right? It’s only a six-hour drive to San Francisco.” “It’s a good thing my Glee playlist is well over seven,” I tell her. “I’ll be there.”
― Brooke Averick, Phoebe Berman's Gonna Lose It

“I feel my hands start to shake, frustrated that someone so close to me could misunderstand the situation so deeply.”
― Brooke Averick, Phoebe Berman's Gonna Lose It

“when”
― Brooke Averick, Phoebe Berman's Gonna Lose It

“I’m annoyed by the annoyance of the one person I thought understood me the most.”
― Brooke Averick, Phoebe Berman's Gonna Lose It

“Simply put, anxiety is not romantic. It’s messy and uncomfortable and funny and sad, and all these things make it incredibly difficult to create a modern-day fairy tale.”
― Brooke Averick, Phoebe Berman's Gonna Lose It

“I know that. But I want to fall in love”
― Brooke Averick, Phoebe Berman's Gonna Lose It

“I consider reaching over to the passenger’s side to rifle through the glove compartment, where I keep a stash of barf bags I’ve collected from various flights over the years. In case of emergency, I always have one in my car and at least one in my tote bag. But this is not an emergency, I remind myself. Even though my body may react like it, I am not being chased by a bear, or about to be pushed out of a plane. I am safe, and I can get through this without needing to empty my lunch into a paper bag.”
― Brooke Averick, Phoebe Berman's Gonna Lose It

“crying.”
― Brooke Averick, Phoebe Berman's Gonna Lose It

“I learned that Jonathan was from a small town in middle-of-nowhere West Virginia, which surprised me. I had never met anyone from there and wasn’t entirely convinced it was a real place until Jonathan assured me that it did definitely exist and there were actually people who lived there.”
― Brooke Averick, Phoebe Berman's Gonna Lose It

“eyes.”
― Brooke Averick, Phoebe Berman's Gonna Lose It

“It started out as a temporary gig while she looked for something more compatible with her sociology degree and has gradually become her full-time job.”
― Brooke Averick, Phoebe Berman's Gonna Lose It

“I’ve done this before. This thing where, in a moment of courage like the one I had last night, I overestimate myself. But I always run in the other direction the moment it becomes real. And Matthew’s response has made this real.”
― Brooke Averick, Phoebe Berman's Gonna Lose It

“Maybe it's not such a terrible thing to go through life at your own pace”
― Brooke Averick, Phoebe Berman's Gonna Lose It

“Well”
― Brooke Averick, Phoebe Berman's Gonna Lose It

“back.”
― Brooke Averick, Phoebe Berman's Gonna Lose It

“The excitement of creating the checklist with my friends is still pulsing through me.”
― Brooke Averick, Phoebe Berman's Gonna Lose It

“have.”
― Brooke Averick, Phoebe Berman's Gonna Lose It

“face.”
― Brooke Averick, Phoebe Berman's Gonna Lose It

“at—”
― Brooke Averick, Phoebe Berman's Gonna Lose It

“yourself?!”
― Brooke Averick, Phoebe Berman's Gonna Lose It

“I let my lavender-scented soap wash away the parts of my day I don’t want to take with me to bed: the letter, the smell of the rotisserie chicken wafting out of the dumpster, the stickiness in the backs of my knees…all scrubbed away with my loofah.”
― Brooke Averick, Phoebe Berman's Gonna Lose It

“prison.”
― Brooke Averick, Phoebe Berman's Gonna Lose It

“screamed.”
― Brooke Averick, Phoebe Berman's Gonna Lose It

“possible.”
― Brooke Averick, Phoebe Berman's Gonna Lose It

“Ironically”
― Brooke Averick, Phoebe Berman's Gonna Lose It

“life.”
― Brooke Averick, Phoebe Berman's Gonna Lose It

“As I’m placing my discarded pants in the hamper next to my dresser”
― Brooke Averick, Phoebe Berman's Gonna Lose It