The Girls' Almanac Quotes

“or maybe love is summed up in moments - that day in the park, the time you had chinese food by candlelight, when the boy you liked left a message, finally, on your machine. maybe the telling of those moments is even better than the moments themselves. ”
― Emily Franklin, The Girls' Almanac: A Novel Exploring the Closeness and Distance of Female Friendship, Intimacy, and Women's Interconnected Lives

“it occured to her that kissing and being kissed were two different things. and being kissed by someone you've really wanted to is something else again.”
― Emily Franklin, The Girls' Almanac: A Novel Exploring the Closeness and Distance of Female Friendship, Intimacy, and Women's Interconnected Lives

“jenna had felt sexy-funny, like lucille ball with flour streaks on her face, a crumb-covered apron that didn't exactly flatter her, and yet nick had kissed her like a prom king falling for the reinvented girl in a movie. ”
― Emily Franklin, The Girls' Almanac: A Novel Exploring the Closeness and Distance of Female Friendship, Intimacy, and Women's Interconnected Lives

“i mean, heather said, our bodies are just these things that we float around in. it's not like they belong to anyone”
― Emily Franklin, The Girls' Almanac: A Novel Exploring the Closeness and Distance of Female Friendship, Intimacy, and Women's Interconnected Lives

“she thinks about lying in here with alex, of the tangle of arms and rope, or lips. ”
― Emily Franklin, The Girls' Almanac: A Novel Exploring the Closeness and Distance of Female Friendship, Intimacy, and Women's Interconnected Lives

“she uncurls danny's small fists and clasps his hand to hers and notices the way even in his sleep his fingers seem to know their way around hers; their hands together form their own organ, or an x, like on a map that insists you are here. ”
― Emily Franklin, The Girls' Almanac: A Novel Exploring the Closeness and Distance of Female Friendship, Intimacy, and Women's Interconnected Lives

“he can see alice in wet leaves, first as kids, when they'd jump in them, then as teenagers, when she would lie on the cold ground and he'd cover her with red, orange, and yellow fallen leaves and he would wait for her, wait for her with his heart racing, hoping he hadn't covered her up so much she couldn't jump up, bringing them both to action. ”
― Emily Franklin, The Girls' Almanac: A Novel Exploring the Closeness and Distance of Female Friendship, Intimacy, and Women's Interconnected Lives

“at keltner's deli, everything was somehow neutralized. they were girls. they were girls with odd names who smoked after school together and maybe sometimes alone.”
― Emily Franklin, The Girls' Almanac: A Novel Exploring the Closeness and Distance of Female Friendship, Intimacy, and Women's Interconnected Lives

“jenna preferred to think of alice that way - like an art project, colors swirling inside her, rather than of how sick she was. ”
― Emily Franklin, The Girls' Almanac: A Novel Exploring the Closeness and Distance of Female Friendship, Intimacy, and Women's Interconnected Lives

“she thought about being held to the woman's chest, and lying there hair-smoothed and quiet until she felt she'd found home. ”
― Emily Franklin, The Girls' Almanac: A Novel Exploring the Closeness and Distance of Female Friendship, Intimacy, and Women's Interconnected Lives

“lucy went along with her mother because ginny wanted her to, because lucy felt it was what girls did with their mothers - watch in silence as, under the cones of dryers, mothers fell out of listening range and into the distance. ”
― Emily Franklin, The Girls' Almanac: A Novel Exploring the Closeness and Distance of Female Friendship, Intimacy, and Women's Interconnected Lives