The Quitters Club Quotes

“to another year full of wonderful stories—”
― Jessica Strawser, The Quitters Club

“Every day, I wake up, turn my face to the sun, and wonder if I’m obsolete yet. This is not the kind of life-on-the-brink anyone sets out for.’ Some”
― Jessica Strawser, The Quitters Club

“This kind of synergy didn’t come from knowing things would turn out okay. It came from messing up, and losing yourself, and trying again, and rediscovering your worth in the process. It came from lifting each other up, and letting each other down despite your best intentions, and being brave enough to say sorry. It came from telling the truth, even when it hurt, and reserving the right to change your mind, and not settling for less than you deserved. Only then, it seemed, could such a beautiful ending become a new beginning too.”
― Jessica Strawser, The Quitters Club

“When” was a word of confidence and manifestation and control.”
― Jessica Strawser, The Quitters Club

“What was your last serious relationship?” Enzo wanted to know. He’d taken her to a historic lounge called the Game Room”
― Jessica Strawser, The Quitters Club

“But sometimes as women, I think we do overcomplicate things. Often because we’re used to taking on too much in the first place.”
― Jessica Strawser, The Quitters Club

“Yes, the decisions would be hard. But maybe this was a good problem to have after all.”
― Jessica Strawser, The Quitters Club

“Saying no is a balancing act. Once we’ve established parameters for drawing boundaries”
― Jessica Strawser, The Quitters Club

“From now on”
― Jessica Strawser, The Quitters Club

“If you’d known the finish line was going to keep moving”
― Jessica Strawser, The Quitters Club

“She’d learned that there were more important things than a job, but that if you were lucky enough to have a career that brought you purpose and fulfillment, it could become a part of your identity that could be hard to shake.”
― Jessica Strawser, The Quitters Club

“It got me thinking how little room I make in my life for things I want to do versus have to do.”
― Jessica Strawser, The Quitters Club

“Sticking with something isn’t always good advice. That’s the kind of thinking that makes people stay in toxic relationships.”
― Jessica Strawser, The Quitters Club

“She had never fantasized about ending things. She wasn’t the planning kind. But seeing that moonlit mountaintop in a blanket of snow”
― Jessica Strawser, The Quitters Club

“Whenever memories sent her reeling”
― Jessica Strawser, The Quitters Club

“Grief was like that”
― Jessica Strawser, The Quitters Club

“to hear. And sometimes important messages could hide in benign places. Like in a children’s poem.”
― Jessica Strawser, The Quitters Club

“Marie had assigned the class to write about a Shel Silverstein poem”
― Jessica Strawser, The Quitters Club

“Or maybe I’m just too scared I’ll go the wrong way”
― Jessica Strawser, The Quitters Club

“Collins seemed to be steeling herself. “I know about being stuck in phases.” Her eyes were wet”
― Jessica Strawser, The Quitters Club

“We talk in my class about reframing things like this”
― Jessica Strawser, The Quitters Club

“This kind of synergy didn’t come from knowing things would turn out okay. It came from messing up”
― Jessica Strawser, The Quitters Club

“studio”
― Jessica Strawser, The Quitters Club

“I’m going to quit making everything so damn easy for him. And I’m going to quit accepting that it has to be so damn hard for me.”
― Jessica Strawser, The Quitters Club