Elissa Sussman > Quotes

“It’s almost like I’m coming home. Not to a place, necessarily, but to a feeling. To a possibility of more. And that completely and utterly terrifies me.”
― Elissa Sussman, Funny You Should Ask

“Never let them take what you're not willing to give.”
― Elissa Sussman, Stray

“But when you're focused on feeding something that can never truly be satiated, you miss what you're actually hungry for.”
― Elissa Sussman, Funny You Should Ask

“You’ve read them,” I say instead. “I thought we’d established that I’ve read everything you’ve written.” It’s one of the hottest things anyone has ever said to me.”
― Elissa Sussman, Funny You Should Ask

“I didn’t think it was possible for so many words to come out of somebody’s mouth that quickly,” he said. “And I auditioned for Gilmore Girls.”
― Elissa Sussman, Funny You Should Ask

“There are no truths, only stories.”
― Elissa Sussman, Stray

“Relationships are like countries. Friendships, families, marriages. Any deep, meaningful relationship tends to form its own customs. Its own language.”
― Elissa Sussman, Funny You Should Ask

“there is nothing just about you.”
― Elissa Sussman, Funny You Should Ask

“If there’s one sin that I’d like Hollywood to atone for, it isn’t bolstering the belief in love at first sight or having one true soulmate. It’s in convincing me that the kinds of friendships I saw on the screen were possible in real life.
You know the types of friendships I’m talking about.
The secret-handshake kind of friendship. The watching-movies-snuggled-under-a-blanket, shared-pint-of-ice-cream kind of friendship. The talk-on-the-phone-for-hours-after-already-spending-the-day-together kind of friendship.
The unconditional-love, endless-well-of-support, mutual-kinship kind of friendship.
I’m pretty sure those types of friendships are completely manufactured by Hollywood.
Because if those friendships really exist, I’ve never been part of one.”
― Elissa Sussman, Funny You Should Ask

“Consumers are fickle—they crave something new, but not that kind of new. They want to be challenged but comforted at the same time. They desire fresh takes, but only in a form that's familiar to them.
That's to say, audiences will accept something different as long as it feels the same.”
― Elissa Sussman, Funny You Should Ask

“It's feeling like every day is the perfect day even if the whole day isn't perfect but finding the moments that are.”
― Elissa Sussman, Funny You Should Ask

“But he's real. And he's spectacular.”
― Elissa Sussman, Funny You Should Ask

“He laughed. It was a great laugh, all low and dark and rich. If chocolate cake had a laugh, it would be like that.”
― Elissa Sussman, Funny You Should Ask

“There are some things you can never return from. Some things you can never undo.”
― Elissa Sussman, Stray

“The town is decorated in nostalgia.”
― Elissa Sussman, Funny You Should Ask

“You go to rage first,” she’s told me. “It’s your safe place when emotions are high.”
― Elissa Sussman, Funny You Should Ask

“You can worship someone you don’t know, but you can’t love them.”
― Elissa Sussman, Funny You Should Ask

“It's like high school, but better—that sweet, hot anticipation of kissing, kissing like you're the first people in the world to discover it, like there's no possible way other people are doing it like this, because if they were how in the hell would anyone ever get anything done.”
― Elissa Sussman, Funny You Should Ask

“I think about how it felt when I came back from New York. How I expected L.A. to feel like home again, but it didn't. How a part of me has been chasing that feeling without really knowing what I'm looking for.”
― Elissa Sussman, Funny You Should Ask

“All marriage, just like all countries, have conflict. Sometimes patriotism is strong enough to overcome it - weighing what is shared against what could be lost - but sometimes the conflict highlights that the country itself was founded on unsteady ground”
― Elissa Sussman, Funny You Should Ask

“Are you?” he asks. “Happy?” I lift a shoulder. “I could be happier, I guess. Couldn’t we all?” He reaches a hand out, his fingers sliding through my hair, thumb brushing against my temple. I shiver. Not from the cold. “I could make you happy,” he says. I swallow. Hard. “Yeah?” I ask. “Yeah,” he says. “Show me,” I say.”
― Elissa Sussman, Funny You Should Ask

“I’ll text it to you when I find it,” he said. Wordlessly, I dug my phone out of my bag and handed it to him, extremely grateful I’d remembered to remove his photo from my lock screen.”
― Elissa Sussman, Funny You Should Ask

“It’s weird, isn’t it? He asked softly when someone thinks they know you”
― Elissa Sussman, Funny You Should Ask

“I'd made mistakes, but I'd paid for them. I'd learned from them. Mostly. I'd continue to learn from them. But not if I kept punishing myself over something I couldn't change. I'd done a bad thing, but I wasn't a bad person. I wasn't beyond salvation. Wasn't beyond love.”
― Elissa Sussman, Once More with Feeling

“You saucy Jewish siren—you got him on his feet.”
― Elissa Sussman, Funny You Should Ask

“I refocus, and try to forget the melted-ice-cream kind of love that is now gone. That sometimes feels like it never really existed.”
― Elissa Sussman, Funny You Should Ask

“I love your clever mind. I love your hair and you butt. I love how fucking brilliant you are, how bold and how brave. I love that Teddy loves you. And I'm pretty sure that my family loves you too. I love your ideas, your stories. And mostly I love your very big eyes and your very smart mouth.”
― Elissa Sussman, Funny You Should Ask

“But when you're focused on feeding some-thing that can never truly be satiated, you miss what you're actually hungry for.”
― Elissa Sussman, Funny You Should Ask

“You can worship someone you don’t know but you can’t live them”
― Elissa Sussman, Funny You Should Ask

“There once were four sisters
Who were exceptionally ordinary,
But desired more than a maiden should desire

Ravaged by their shameful wants
Their loving hearts never bloomed

Instead four wicked brambles
Grew in their place
Each tainted
With poisonous magic”
― Elissa Sussman