Back When We Were Grownups Quotes

“It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work.”
― Anne Tyler, Back When We Were Grownups

“There is no true life. Your true life is the one you end up with, whatever it may be. You just do the best you can with what you've got.”
― Anne Tyler, Back When We Were Grownups

“«آدم‌ها فکر می‌کنند ازدست‌دادن یک عزیز مثل ترک کردن سیگار است. روز اوّل خیلی سخت است. روز بعد سختی کم‌تر می‌شود و به تدریج از بین می‌رود و هرچه که می‌گذرد تحمّلش آسان‌تر و آسان‌تر می‌شود. امّا من می‌گویم مثل آب‌نخوردن است. هرروز بیشتر متوجّه ازدست‌رفتن عزیزت می‌شوی»”
― Anne Tyler, Back When We Were Grownups

“And she thought what a clean, simple life she would have led if it weren't for love.”
― Anne Tyler, Back When We Were Grownups

“I write because I want to have more than one life.”
― Anne Tyler, Back When We Were Grownups

“Face it,' I said. 'There is no true life. Your true life is the one you end up with, whatever it may be. You just do the best you can with what you've got,' I said.”
― Anne Tyler, Back When We Were Grownups

“She passed her New York Reviews on to Troy without giving them a glance; she told him she thought there was something perverted about book reviews that were longer than the books they were reviewing.”
― Anne Tyler, Back When We Were Grownups

“Let's say you had to report back to heaven at the end of your time on earth, tell them what your personal allotment of experience had been: wouldn't it sound like Poppy's speech? The smell of radiator dust on a winter morning, the taste of hot maple syrup ...”
― Anne Tyler, Back When We Were Grownups

“It’s never too late to do what you want to do.’ Remember that.”
― Anne Tyler, Back When We Were Grownups

“She started to speak, but then stopped. Anything she could think of to say seemed a mistake. In fact, speech in general seemed a mistake. It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work. from Back When We Were Grownups.”
― Anne Tyler, Back When We Were Grownups

“he was a party-giver.” “But he never felt party-giving was really his true life,” Poppy reminded her. “Well, no.” “And that’s where he and I differed,” Poppy said. “Because I was always telling him, ‘Look,’ I said. ‘Face it,’ I said. ‘There is no true life. Your true life is the one you end up with, whatever it may be. You just do the best you can with what you’ve got,’ I said.”
― Anne Tyler, Back When We Were Grown-ups

“Sometimes Rebecca thought that the whole point of having lots of daughters was, the law of averages said at least one of them might behave right at any given time.”
― Anne Tyler, Back When We Were Grown-ups

“And that's where he and I differed," Poppy said. "Because I was always telling him, 'Look,' I said. 'Face it,' I said. 'There is no true life. Your true life is the one you end up with, whatever it may be. You just do the best you can with what you've got,' I said.”
― Anne Tyler, Back When We Were Grownups

“The idea came from one time when I was waiting for one of the girls at the airport and I saw this huge, happy, noisy crowd carrying balloons and placards and video cameras and regular cameras and flowers and wrapped gifts, and then the plane landed and a woman walked in with a tiny little button of a baby, Korean I think or Chinese, and the crowd started cheering and this couple stepped forward and the wife held out her arms and the woman gave her the baby and … I’ve always felt sort of cheated that we haven’t had any adoptions in our family. Adoption is more sudden than pregnancy, don’t you think? It’s more dramatic. So I said, ‘Why don’t we welcome our babies like that?”
― Anne Tyler, Back When We Were Grownups

“Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered that she had turned into the wrong person.”
― Anne Tyler, Back When We Were Grownups

“(Always give guests some useful task, if you want them to feel a part of things.)”
― Anne Tyler, Back When We Were Grown-ups