Rules for Ghosting Quotes

“He’s always thought that love is knowing all the best ways to hurt someone and never, ever exploiting them.”
― Shelly Jay Shore, Rules for Ghosting

“a house full of people who make him laugh so hard his face hurts and smother him with the kind of affection that’s only ever possible when a group of lonely people find the edges that fit together into an impossible whole.”
― Shelly Jay Shore, Rules for Ghosting

“His whole world has been tied up in taking care of other people since he was too young to understand what he was doing until he’d built his entire identity around it. If he doesn’t have that—if he can’t fix things for the people who need him—he doesn’t know who he is. He doesn’t understand why anyone would want him, if not for that.”
― Shelly Jay Shore, Rules for Ghosting

“How do you grieve a family? A marriage? Who prays over it, gives it the final dignity of clean linen and cool water? Does it get a funeral, or does it just lay itself down, mourned, but without mourners? No one sits shiva for living ghosts.”
― Shelly Jay Shore, Rules for Ghosting

“He knows every wound, every unhealed scar, every place where salt water will sting. He’s always thought that love is knowing all the best ways to hurt someone and never, ever exploiting them.”
― Shelly Jay Shore, Rules for Ghosting

“She radiates a no-nonsense competency that makes her both excellent at her job and terrifying to work with.”
― Shelly Jay Shore, Rules for Ghosting

“The thing about hosting a Passover seder year after year is that it becomes predictable. A few thousand years of doing the same thing the same way the same night of the year will do that.”
― Shelly Jay Shore, Rules for Ghosting

“You’re part of the madhouse now, cutie-pie. Welcome to the mortifying ordeal of being known.”
― Shelly Jay Shore, Rules for Ghosting

“He's a soul within the body, filling every space, every crevice, every cell.”
― Shelly Jay Shore, Rules for Ghosting

“For the eldest daughters, current and former— this is your reminder to exhale.”
― Shelly Jay Shore, Rules for Ghosting