All That Life Can Afford Quotes

“want her to go, but she didn’t have to stay if it was too hard. You would figure out how to get through it.”
― Emily Everett, All That Life Can Afford

“Shari and I had really hit it off at our first meeting. She’d asked me about my dissertation, and we ended up talking at length about E. M. Forster, since Howards End was one of her favorite books. When I got back from lunch, Shari waved me over to her desk and picked up that conversation like we’d had it that morning. “People generally feel that Forster is Austen’s natural heir, don’t you think?”
― Emily Everett, All That Life Can Afford

“Just because I hadn’t meant any harm didn’t mean that I hadn’t caused any.”
― Emily Everett, All That Life Can Afford

“I kept my distance from him when we went out as a group—three more times, since then. Being with Theo, being in Highgate, everyone assumed I was like them. I didn’t have to do much but omit—that I was living in the Wilders’ house, that I was working as a tutor, that not all the clothes I wore were mine. Brushing past these facts didn’t feel good, but it was better than feeling the way I had in Saint-Tropez, with Faye’s friends: like a second-class citizen.”
― Emily Everett, All That Life Can Afford

“But that didn’t mean I couldn’t enjoy it: the little rush of it, each time. It didn’t seem like he’d really given me the whole story about Parliament Hill, but I also didn’t want to put him on the spot. And really, why poke holes in it? What a simple, miraculous thing: to be remembered.”
― Emily Everett, All That Life Can Afford

“Thirty hours in two weeks—that paycheck would be my biggest ever. I could finally get a replacement for my fraying laptop charger. I could treat Liv and Andre to canned cocktails on Hampstead Heath, raise a toast to London’s wealthiest children. May they all test poorly and need tutors.”
― Emily Everett, All That Life Can Afford

“I had grifted, but it wasn’t for money. It was simpler, the thing I’d needed since the day my mother died. A place to be loved.”
― Emily Everett, All That Life Can Afford

“My parents hadn’t urged me to succeed and do well so I could have nicer things than them, or eat at nicer restaurants, or have more impressive friends. They had only wanted me to live without the strangling weight of worry.”
― Emily Everett, All That Life Can Afford

“My mother was gone, yes, but for twenty-two years she’d been the warmest, kindest, gentlest part of my day, someone who always listened to me, understood me. Even when she began to wear down and disappear last year, her hugs were still fierce. Fortifying. Even in their palatial houses, my students had never enjoyed even a fraction of something so invaluable.”
― Emily Everett, All That Life Can Afford

“Mourning is pretty much a universal thing, right? We all have to do it, at some point. Everyone on the planet is doing it, will do it, but when you’re going through it, it’s only yours.”
― Emily Everett, All That Life Can Afford