Andy Abramowitz > Quotes

“And once again, Molly marveled at the vast, limitless ways in which the extroverts failed to grasp the introverts, how the fighters would never understand the fleers.”
― Andy Abramowitz, A Beginner's Guide to Free Fall

“The Edinburgh Castle was incredible, wasn’t it?” she said. His face went hazy. “I don’t really remember a castle. But I was there a long time ago. Maybe it wasn’t built yet?” Possibly, she was tempted to say. The castle was built in 1280. When were you there?”
― Andy Abramowitz, A Beginner's Guide to Free Fall

“The best and the worst things in life are sudden, Ms. Winger. Everything else takes too damn long,”
― Andy Abramowitz, A Beginner's Guide to Free Fall

“I was happy to discover that my brother and I had, like I imagine most siblings do, a gray area where the things that kept us connected were community property, and we borrowed and stole from each other in equal measure,”
― Andy Abramowitz, Darling at the Campsite

“People boasted about their cancer battles and their stroke recoveries, she maintained, and yet society still viewed psychological trauma as a lesser affliction, as something you could conquer just by giving yourself a good talking-to.”
― Andy Abramowitz, A Beginner's Guide to Free Fall

“Right there in that greasy spoon, Davis became achingly conscious of the volatility of time. It spun everyone around, holding all of humanity together with great centrifugal motion, until the wear of the tracks and the rust of the bolts flung everyone wildly away from each other into outer spaces.”
― Andy Abramowitz, A Beginner's Guide to Free Fall

“I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from other men. —George Bernard Shaw”
― Andy Abramowitz, A Beginner's Guide to Free Fall

“It was afternoons like those that made Molly think she’d be perfectly happy quitting her job and being a stay-at-home aunt.”
― Andy Abramowitz, A Beginner's Guide to Free Fall

“an unlikely incident that to this day she denied but couldn’t truly refute.”
― Andy Abramowitz, A Beginner's Guide to Free Fall

“One die, I'll die, I thought to myself, and this will be one of the things I did with my time.”
― Andy Abramowitz

“She looked up at him, her eyes searching. “Daddy?” “Yes, little face?” “Was Miss Hannigan a drunk?” Davis slumped into the back of his chair. “Well, wouldn’t you be?”
― Andy Abramowitz, A Beginner's Guide to Free Fall

“One day I'll die, I thought to myself, and this will be one of the things I did with my time.”
― Andy Abramowitz, Thank You, Goodnight

“Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”
― Andy Abramowitz, A Beginner's Guide to Free Fall

“Mean people are just sad inside,”
― Andy Abramowitz, A Beginner's Guide to Free Fall

“It was only when Britt had endorsed the idea of online dating that Molly had agreed to try it. It seemed so crass: the mug shot, the concise distillation of one’s interests and aspirations into a few pithy lines, all with the desperate undertone of Pick me! Pick me! It was like putting yourself on a menu and trying to make yourself sound delicious.”
― Andy Abramowitz, A Beginner's Guide to Free Fall

“On the other side of the room, Molly saw an old man with sagging cheeks seated beside his frail wife, bony hand in bony hand. The sight of these people, who must have trudged together across the years, who’d aged to the point where they couldn’t age much more, awakened within Molly an alarming truth that somehow had never before hit her with such inevitability: one day she was going to come to a hospital like this one and her life would end. There would be something wrong with her heart or she’d have cancer of something important, and in one unceremonious moment, in a room so antiseptically bright and sterile that there’d be nowhere for her fear to burrow, she’d be carried out of this world for all of time. A stranger would then draw a sheet over her face and shuffle off to the break room for a snack, leaving the freshly dead Molly Erin Winger, born in Columbus, Ohio, unto Norman and Katherine Winger, alone among machines and boxes of rubber gloves that were no more alive or less dead than she. Then, a day or two later, some of the people with whom she’d shared the earth would put her in the ground. They’d watch her casket being lowered into the open soil and leave her there, all by herself, on a quiet hill among gravestones. Then those people would drive to someone’s house to nibble at turkey wraps and Caesar salad, lament the loss of a life, and ask if there was any barbecue sauce.”
― Andy Abramowitz, A Beginner's Guide to Free Fall

“never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from other men. —George Bernard Shaw”
― Andy Abramowitz, A Beginner's Guide to Free Fall

“Who in the wild fuck is Kitty Lowell?” she asked. “Nobody,” Molly replied, hastily closing out. Skyler’s eyes grew wide. “Holy shit. That’s Joe, isn’t it?” “Joe?” “Joe Mama!”
― Andy Abramowitz, A Beginner's Guide to Free Fall

“There is danger in pining for people, in pining for things, in confusing who you are with what you want. You lose yourself in it. You lose yourself.”
― Andy Abramowitz, Thank You, Goodnight

“What was the deal with car dealers and balloons?”
― Andy Abramowitz, A Beginner's Guide to Free Fall