Other People We Married Quotes

“If I'd had a friend next to me, I would have squeezed her arm and said, Can you believe this? - but kitsch wasn't kitsch if you were alone.”
― Emma Straub, Other People We Married

“If the Enchanted Forest were in a movie, they’d always be playing Bob Dylan or Van Morrison or maybe even Leonard Cohen in the background. Greta thought about that a lot. Sometimes when she was taking a shower or helping her mom in the restaurant, she’d imagine what kind of scene it would be and what would be playing to set the mood.”
― Emma Straub, Other People We Married

“It's a rental," I said, realizing when I said it that our house was the only rental on the block. Maybe something unseemly had happened there: adultery, Judaism, modern dance.”
― Emma Straub, Other People We Married

“Things that happen in seven years: Brad Pitt in Tibet. The itch.”
― Emma Straub, Other People We Married

“There were people who were just meant to get you somewhere, like Judy's old boyfriend the candlemaker. They weren't supposed to stick around. And sometimes people had to stay put. Greta thought of the Forest filled with drying candles, their wicks still connected and slung over low branches. She looked at Abraham, who was raising his hands to the sky. The room seemed bigger, somehow. There would be a better time to go.”
― Emma Straub, Other People We Married