The False Friend Quotes

“At this time on a weekday morning, the library was refuge to the retired, the unemployed, and the unemployable. ... 'I'm not always this gabby,' the librarian said. 'It's just so nice to talk to someone who isn't constructing a conspiracy theory or watching videos of home accidents on YouTube.”
― Myla Goldberg, The False Friend

“The day's dashed hopes had temporarily reduced her to the childish presumption that someone she loved should, in return for that love, be able to read her mind.”
― Myla Goldberg, The False Friend

“Equity, they came to realize, was not the same thing as equivalence, as evidenced by beside tables and snowflakes the world over.”
― Myla Goldberg, The False Friend

“What struck Celia most about young children was the intensity of their passions, life too new to be modulated, perspective a possession not yet acquired.”
― Myla Goldberg, The False Friend

“Having already funneled its students to their respective classrooms, the school's front hall was empty, its glass showcase in the same neglected spot outside the front office. ... She looked at it briefly, her eyes sweeping over the faces of students whose adult trajectories would lead them either to gloss over these moments or to spend their lives pining for their return.”
― Myla Goldberg, The False Friend

“We are, because we remember. As each new present blinks out, its heart is weighed and then judged, preserved in mental amber or consumed.”
― Myla Goldberg, The False Friend