Tara Laskowski > Quotes

“This weekend has hardly begun and already I’m nauseated. When can we start stabbing each other in the backs and rewarding ourselves with long naps?”
― Tara Laskowski, The Weekend Retreat

“But I know family can bring out the worst in people.”
― Tara Laskowski, The Weekend Retreat

“I never want to go back to Maurville, to the house with dripping ceilings and worn-out carpet. I never want to become my dad, running a pawnshop in a fading downtown, or my mother, growing more and more bitter about the way her life has shaken out every year.”
― Tara Laskowski, The Weekend Retreat

“We trust people to be good and decent. We trust our food, our drinks, to be safe. We trust our friends, our family, our partners, to have our backs and do the right thing. Honor their word. And we should not. People are selfish. They will lie and cheat if they think they can get away with it, if they think it will gain them fortune and fame. These traits are inherited and taught, passed down from generation to generation, a family tree of deceit and lies.”
― Tara Laskowski, The Weekend Retreat

“I don’t correct Elle and let the conversation continue around me. Maurville is about as different from Tuscany as you can get. I couldn’t wait to leave, and I can’t wait to never go back.”
― Tara Laskowski, The Weekend Retreat

“This house is a behemoth, needy and wanting, and Mother always enjoyed feeding the monster. But it’s angry and sullen without her, listless, the shadows in the corners deeper and longer.”
― Tara Laskowski, The Weekend Retreat

“I toss her my most charming smile and resist the urge to poke and prod the fire—too much meddling will suffocate the flames.”
― Tara Laskowski, The Weekend Retreat

“There are a few ways to get rich quick in this world. One is to be born into it. Another is to get lucky—win the lottery, marry a billionaire, become famous. And yet another is to cheat and steal. Whichever way it happens, once they’re rich, the rich like to stay that way. They’ll do whatever necessary to get more, whatever it takes to eliminate the people in their path.”
― Tara Laskowski, The Weekend Retreat

“The surrounding homes were propped up on beams, like old ladies hitching up their skirts so they wouldn't get wet in the surf, but that just gave the Worthington's house an understated effect.”
― Tara Laskowski, One Night Gone

“waking up only to discover
that everything I’d known to be true was suddenly different. So in some
ways this journey, the picking up and leaving behind, felt like an emerging.”
― Tara Laskowski, One Night Gone

“She shrugs, like she’s talking about the breakfast menu and not a childhood trauma.”
― Tara Laskowski, The Weekend Retreat