Friends in Napa Quotes

“Don’t have too much fun but don’t have no fun, look hot but not too hot, be easy, be accommodating, be authentic but not if you’re feeling bad—no one wants to hear you bitch and moan. Swallow your ego, swallow your pride, accept criticism, take the blame, and smile. Don’t forget to smile.”
― Sheila Yasmin Marikar, Friends in Napa

“Why was it that when men had to work, they were providing, and when women had to work, they were backing out on some unwritten promise to always put their family first?”
― Sheila Yasmin Marikar, Friends in Napa

“If it’s not a hell yes, it’s a hell no,”
― Sheila Yasmin Marikar, Friends in Napa

“They talked about how no one, on their deathbed, ever wished they’d worked longer, harder, put in more hours at the office. But the thing none of those romantics got was that you didn’t get to grow old and wistful if you didn’t have money, that spending time with your loved ones was expensive, that if you blithely switched off your notifications and let the cogs in the wheel turn, you would be replaced. Especially if you were a mother. You would be replaced by something younger, faster, and cheaper. A shinier, newer cog. Probably made of flimsier stuff than you, but replaced nevertheless.”
― Sheila Yasmin Marikar, Friends in Napa

“Vacationing” with young children was just parenting with a better view, if you were lucky.)”
― Sheila Yasmin Marikar, Friends in Napa

“wondered if a condition of being an adult was that you always thought you should be doing something other than what you were doing.”
― Sheila Yasmin Marikar, Friends in Napa

“Why compromise your true self when the best version of you is out there, waiting for you to step in?”
― Sheila Yasmin Marikar, Friends in Napa

“Motherhood was a never-ending challenge of giving up control, of letting go, inch by inch, even when the animal within you wanted to reel back all the line you’d released and go back to when your child needed you to breathe.”
― Sheila Yasmin Marikar, Friends in Napa

“Phyllo wrapped, stuffed with a mixture of shiitake, portobello, and oyster, and sautéed in”—he smiled at all of them as if about to dispense some delicious secret—“a special ingredient that I don’t usually get my hands on—” “Sustainable avocado oil,” Victoria”
― Sheila Yasmin Marikar, Friends in Napa

“They talked about how no one, on their deathbed, ever wished they’d worked longer, harder, put in more hours at the office.”
― Sheila Yasmin Marikar, Friends in Napa

“You choose your attitude.”
― Sheila Yasmin Marikar, Friends in Napa

“She wondered if a condition of being an adult was that you always thought you should be doing something other than what you were doing.”
― Sheila Yasmin Marikar, Friends in Napa

“To Instagram, then; she needed visual candy: oh look, a new post from Rachel, a car-fie, a caption about the golden hour, a Louis Vuitton duffel in the background. God, she was so self-obsessed; had she aged even a day since they’d graduated? Had she done something to her lips, or was it just a filter? Anjali scrolled back through Rachel’s older posts, even though she had seen and summarily judged them all before, shifting in her seat, attempting to ignore the sensation in her bladder. Oh no—had she accidentally liked one? She tapped again. The heart disappeared, then reappeared. Had she tapped twice? Thrice? Was the Wi-Fi even working? Had she ever responded to that text from Rachel? She had to have, right? The things you did, the places your mind went, when you needed to pee. She swore her brain”
― Sheila Yasmin Marikar, Friends in Napa