Diana

“I am trying to figure out, Mom, exactly how I ended up so fucked up. How I became rudderless. How I both failed to bond with my family of origin and to individuate from them.”
― Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Long Island Compromise

“The anxiety and fear were the only things that were real to him; they were the only things that never abandoned him. And when everyone else got to feel them, too, well, that was when he could finally relax. Now Alyssa knew. His mother, his sister, his brother—his father even. They all felt the emergency, too. Finally.”
― Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Long Island Compromise

“Even still, in her hypnotized state, she recognized that he was largely mediocre. That he wasn’t particularly smart or ambitious—that he had nothing to offer but the promise of an offer.”
― Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Long Island Compromise

“Jenny looked tired, or maybe she looked like a girl who was nearing forty and didn’t own any makeup.”
― Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Long Island Compromise