Single, Carefree, Mellow Quotes

“Josie thinks that the problem with being a writer is that you miss a lot of your life wondering if the things that happen to you are good enough to use in a story, and most of the time they’re not and you have to make shit up anyway.”
― Katherine Heiny, Single, Carefree, Mellow

“Oh, it was horrible to have a teenager’s emotions and a forty-year-old’s body. It was humiliating. It was depressing. It was degrading.”
― Katherine Heiny, Single, Carefree, Mellow

“You take Boris’s hand as he bounds along on his long legs, your signal that he has to either slow down or pull you along. He tucks both your hand and his hand into the pocket of his jacket. You look up at his face out of the corner of your eye. In the cold, you watch him breathe perfect plumes of white that match the sheepskin lining of his jacket. You think how happy you would be if Boris thought you were half as beautiful as you think he is at this moment. You walk this way for a few minutes.”
― Katherine Heiny, Single, Carefree, Mellow

“I think it's kind of amazing how much of our lives are spent having conversations about drop-off and pickup and traffic circles and phone plans and, I don't know, the difficulty of finding a really good electrician and the best recipe for cranberry relish.”
― Katherine Heiny, Single, Carefree, Mellow

“Because we're doing this all backwards," meaning, of course, that their minds had fallen in love before their bodies did and what if their bodies got all stubborn and wouldn't fall in line?”
― Katherine Heiny, Single, Carefree, Mellow

“The rest of the party goes by in a blur, much like your wedding day. In fact, now that you think about it, children's birthday parties are pretty similar to your wedding day: you pay too much attention to meaningless detail, you overinvest in certain decisions, you see your friends but don't really get to interact with them, you end up incredibly stressed, and in retrospect you would certainly do it all much more simply.”
― Katherine Heiny, Single, Carefree, Mellow

“You would love to make him waffles with strawberries and sit in the warm morning sunshine of your kitchen and tell him about the day he was born, and how when he turned twenty-four hours old, you cried because you never wanted him to get any bigger.”
― Katherine Heiny, Single, Carefree, Mellow

“She and Hazelene were friends, real friends, with the kind of friendship that made Maya think, as she sometimes did, that people were not meant to keep moving, that the world was actually a much better place when people lived in the same village their whole lives.”
― Katherine Heiny, Single, Carefree, Mellow

“Because the problem was, of course, that although sometimes Maya's heart was gone, sometimes it came back.”
― Katherine Heiny, Single, Carefree, Mellow

“And Maya knew, from personal experience, that the reason behind the breakup could become, in a way, even more anguishing than the breakup itself, if you never found out what it was. It could haunt you for months, even for years, the unknown reason, and take on a nearly mythical importance, until you forgot, or almost forgot, that the truly important thing was that someone you wanted to be with no longer wanted to be with you.”
― Katherine Heiny, Single, Carefree, Mellow

“If I had been given a promise ring from a boy who broke up with me, I would have mailed the ring back to him jammed on a severed chicken’s foot.”
― Katherine Heiny, Single, Carefree, Mellow

“Now, it so happens that you’ve had fifteen sexual partners in your lifetime and seeing Manny the Magician standing there in your front hall labeled number sixteen fills you with an uneasy sense of predestination. Is this where that bright and shining corridor that was your twenties and thirties has led you?”
― Katherine Heiny, Single, Carefree, Mellow

“Maya knew then that she could not leave Rhodes. Bailey’s death had prevented it, the same way that a flat tire or broken alarm clock could prevent someone from making a flight that later crashed. There is such a thing as too much loss. Maya understood that now.”
― Katherine Heiny, Single, Carefree, Mellow

“Christmas ornament exchanges,”
― Katherine Heiny, Single, Carefree, Mellow