Lottie

“It was embarrassing, if you slowed down long enough to think about it, how many major life decisions happened because they looked like the model you'd been given.”
― Emma Straub, This Time Tomorrow

“Any story could be a comedy or a tragedy, depending on where you ended it. That was the magic. How the same story could be told an infinite number of ways.”
― Emma Straub, This Time Tomorrow

“Maybe there were endless opportunities for parties, and for love, if you built a life that made room for them.”
― Emma Straub, This Time Tomorrow

“Alice wondered if no one ever felt as old as they were because it happened so slowly, and you were only ever one day slower and creakier, and the world changed so gradually that by the time cars had evolved from boxy to smooth, or green taxis had joined yellow ones, or MetroCards had replaced tokens, you were used to it. Everyone was a lobster in the pot.”
― Emma Straub, This Time Tomorrow