Lottie

“Alice imagined a graph that showed how much people's personalities shifted after high school on one axis and on the other, how many miles away from home they had moved.”
― Emma Straub, This Time Tomorrow

“All her life, she'd thought of death as the single moment, the heart stopping, the final breath, but now she knew that it could be much more like giving birth, with nine months of preparations. Her father was heavily pregnant with death, and there was little to do but wait.”
― Emma Straub, This Time Tomorrow

“Mothering seemed like downhill skiing, or cooking elaborate meals from scratch — sure, anyone could learn how to do it, but it was much easier for the people who had seen other people do it first, and well, from a very young age.”
― 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