Jane and Dan at the End of the World Quotes

“Sometimes it feels like I love my family, but I hate my life.”
― Colleen Oakley, Jane and Dan at the End of the World

“Jane often thinks all of the difficulty with parenting can be summed up by one sentence: Am I overreacting? And how 99 percent of the time, the answer is yes, but how is one to know when it’s the 1 percent of the time worrying is warranted? Frankly, it’s exhausting.”
― Colleen Oakley, Jane and Dan at the End of the World

“I just thought I would do something that mattered. Something important. Do you know what I mean? But it feels like nothing I do matters.”
― Colleen Oakley, Jane and Dan at the End of the World

“Morality isn’t an absolute; it’s situational.”
― Colleen Oakley, Jane and Dan at the End of the World

“It’s not the parenting that’s so exhausting as much as the performance of the same script day in and day out. Or maybe it’s the trying to fix all the things for all the people in her family, when she can’t even fix herself.”
― Colleen Oakley, Jane and Dan at the End of the World

“It shouldn’t really surprise him. At forty-three, he’s old enough to know most things in life don’t pan out quite the way you imagine they will, and you often end up with a feeling of vague disappointment: like the first time you have sex, or every New Year’s Eve, or when you try to change the oil in the car yourself rather than taking it to a mechanic, because how hard can it be?”
― Colleen Oakley, Jane and Dan at the End of the World