Elisabeth Egan > Quotes

“When you're a kid, you think you're going to have this deep well of time with your parents when you grow up and you're all on equal footing.”
― Elisabeth Egan, A Window Opens

“And the moral is: If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave. —Mo Willems, Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs”
― Elisabeth Egan, A Window Opens

“My Dad is everywhere and he is nowhere. My world tilts on a different axis, orbiting the sun of my own family- but still, I feel his warmth.”
― Elisabeth Egan

“When you're a kid, you think you're going to have this deep well of time with your parents when you grow up and you're all on equal footing. When I had kids of my own, I thought that time would come when my kids grew up and I had a little more freedom. I imagined myself as a fifty-year-old woman, strolling around the duck pond with my eighty-year-old dad. I might have looped my arm through his.
Now I knew, this was not to be.”
― Elisabeth Egan

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― Elisabeth Egan, A Window Opens

“Market research shows that Haribo gummies are the leading candy consumed by voracious readers.”
― Elisabeth Egan, A Window Opens

“As much as I like my sister-in-law, I didn't want her two cents. This was a conversation for siblings, with in-laws as invested observers.”
― Elisabeth Egan, A Window Opens

“Mary Baker Eddy: “Home is the dearest spot on earth, and should be the centre, not the boundary, of the affections.”
― Elisabeth Egan, A Window Opens

“A rising tide lifts all boats,”
― Elisabeth Egan, A Window Opens

“My chubbiest, chattiest toddler was now this lanky boy of few words, whose feet I could smell from across the room.”
― Elisabeth Egan

“We paused to nod in deference to a just-arrived mom of six who placed third in her age group in the Ironman and has a successful catering business, No Small Affair. Everyone suspects she's on meth but still, the woman commands respect.”
― Elisabeth Egan

“Getting set in your ways is the first step toward mediocrity. You have to be nimble.”
― Elisabeth Egan, A Window Opens

“What was it like to be the person who chose books readers would fall in love with, buy for their mothers, and remember forever after, the way you never forget a delicious meal? •”
― Elisabeth Egan, A Window Opens

“The beauty of the world . . . has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.”
― Elisabeth Egan, A Window Opens

“Sometimes you just know. And so you rearrange your life around what you glimpsed through a little window that opened for one second to show you a glimpse of something you might never get to see again. Even so, you know you will never forget the view.”
― Elisabeth Egan, A Window Opens

“The stress rose in my ears like a noise.”
― Elisabeth Egan, A Window Opens

“Snow Child, Girlchild, Seating Arrangements.”
― Elisabeth Egan, A Window Opens

“And the moral is: If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.”
― Elisabeth Egan, A Window Opens