Our Short History Quotes

“It's very easy to think you know someone... when life is calm and orderly. But people become their truest selves in emergencies.”
― Lauren Grodstein, Our Short History

“This was when I was a teenager and thought I could rewrite any script. Now I'm grown and know that very few of us get to become the people we thought we'd be when we were kids.”
― Lauren Grodstein, Our Short History

“But who says you get to be ready? Who says you get to take someone's heart and eat it and then decide you don't like the taste, so you spit it out and leave her there heartless, empty? An empty space inside? You don't get to do that an call yourself a grown-up. You don't get to do that and walk out forgiven. And I wanted to tell him that - calmly, orderly, I wanted to tell him - but what would have been the point, really? How could he have made it up to me now? There we were, almost seven years later. Dave was married and I wouldn't be here much longer so what would be the point of screaming at him or saying something terrible? What would be the point of telling him he was a monster? Trying to wreak my own sad vengeance even now?”
― Lauren Grodstein, Our Short History

“This was when I thought I could rewrite any script. Now I'm grown and know that very few of us get to become the people we thought we'd be when we were kids.”
― Lauren Grodstein, Our Short History