Drop Dead Sisters Quotes

“The worst kind of small talk is with family, the people you should be able to connect with.”
― Amelia Diane Coombs, Drop Dead Sisters

“If you have an older sister, there’s a good chance that she’s almost killed you at least once since childhood.”
― Amelia Diane Coombs, Drop Dead Sisters

“After enough years of therapy, I know the importance of patterns. That’s what therapy is often about, anyway. Identifying our patterns and trying to break them.”
― Amelia Diane Coombs, Drop Dead Sisters

“Fuck being polite and kind and nice to men who don’t deserve it.”
― Amelia Diane Coombs, Drop Dead Sisters

“Not like serial killer status or Chris Pratt levels of bad (he gave up his incontinent fifteen-year-old cat for adoption because she was too much trouble, which is the purest form of evil in my book).”
― Amelia Diane Coombs, Drop Dead Sisters

“My mom always used to say that you never feel older—that you’re the same person you were when you were younger—and I never used to believe her. But sometimes I swear I was just in high school, an anxious girl with a permanent stomachache who, embarrassingly enough, wanted people to like her more than she liked herself.”
― Amelia Diane Coombs, Drop Dead Sisters

“Sofiya, my sweet old lady cat, who has kept me company for nearly fifteen years while I type away on my computer, no doubt wondering why I’m not hand-feeding her chicken treats instead.”
― Amelia Diane Coombs, Drop Dead Sisters

“As women, we have so little say in our lives. At the very least we should be able to say who can and can’t put their hands on us, touch us.”
― Amelia Diane Coombs, Drop Dead Sisters

“But it’s that mindset, the mental trap, I fall into whenever I’m around my family.”
― Amelia Diane Coombs, Drop Dead Sisters

“My mom always used to say that you never feel older—that you’re the same person you were when you were younger—and I never used to believe her.”
― Amelia Diane Coombs, Drop Dead Sisters

“I don’t want them. It wouldn’t be fair to the kid, and it wouldn’t be fair to me. Besides, I’d much rather live in regret of not having a kid than regret bringing one into the world.”
― Amelia Diane Coombs, Drop Dead Sisters

“He’s the type of man who is so unremarkable, so ordinary, that he’s forced my brilliant, strong sister to dim beside him in comparison. Like his fragile ego can’t take being outshone. But I’m starting to realize that my sister hates him a little bit, too, but feels like she doesn’t have any options.”
― Amelia Diane Coombs, Drop Dead Sisters

“It’s like a true crime version of telephone.”
― Amelia Diane Coombs, Drop Dead Sisters

“I make a contemplative noise, smooshing my pillow again. The older I’ve gotten, the easier it’s become for me to realize that my parents are just . . . people. They’re going through life the first time, just like I am, and while I often wish I had more normal parents—parents who didn’t do shrooms or eschew modern psychiatry or send me long emails about my menses and iron levels, since the last time they saw me I looked a little pale—they aren’t bad parents.”
― Amelia Diane Coombs, Drop Dead Sisters

“Dogs and houseplants are much more my speed. And if that ever changes and my eggs are all shriveled up, there’s always adoption. I’m not so obsessed with who I am that I feel the need to replicate myself. No one in their right mind should want my anxiety- and allergy-ridden DNA, not to mention my poor eyesight.”
― Amelia Diane Coombs, Drop Dead Sisters

“They’re going through life the first time, just like I am,”
― Amelia Diane Coombs, Drop Dead Sisters

“I’d much rather live in regret of not having a kid than regret bringing one into the world.”
― Amelia Diane Coombs, Drop Dead Sisters

“Occam’s razor?”
― Amelia Diane Coombs, Drop Dead Sisters

“And I feel myself retreating. Back into my role of the youngest, the quietest, the one who matters the tiniest bit less than everyone else.”
― Amelia Diane Coombs, Drop Dead Sisters

“but the truth is that we were never together to begin with.”
― Amelia Diane Coombs, Drop Dead Sisters

“was a shadow, an echo, that they couldn’t wait to escape when they left for college.”
― Amelia Diane Coombs, Drop Dead Sisters

“Seattle to visit Eliana to Los Angeles to visit Maeve, with me sandwiched somewhere in between, in the armpit”
― Amelia Diane Coombs, Drop Dead Sisters

“No, we’re indifferent to one another, which I sometimes think is worse.”
― Amelia Diane Coombs, Drop Dead Sisters

“Shit happened and you didn’t die. Best of luck with your trauma and therapy bills.”
― Amelia Diane Coombs, Drop Dead Sisters