The Jetsetters Quotes

“Martyrdom was a hard habit to break.”
― Amanda Eyre Ward, The Jetsetters

“Lee had never realized how hideous most of the world was until Rome.”
― Amanda Eyre Ward, The Jetsetters

“Did all siblings revert to their childhood selves when they were together, or was there a way to transition to functional adulthood even while being in one another’s lives?”
― Amanda Eyre Ward, The Jetsetters

“This was one of the pleasures of recovery: you opened the door to the pain and gnawing tedium, but joy came in as well. All of it, all of it, brilliant and clean and true.”
― Amanda Eyre Ward, The Jetsetters

“Somehow her later years had become a mirror of her lonely childhood.”
― Amanda Eyre Ward, The Jetsetters

“Your “family of origin” (as her online therapist called them) could be toxic and strange, but they were yours: you could not escape them, for better or worse.”
― Amanda Eyre Ward, The Jetsetters

“What he needs,” Lee said, “is a father who supports him!” She’d been thirteen, the bravest girl in the world,”
― Amanda Eyre Ward, The Jetsetters

“The color of a polar bear’s skin? Is? In fact? BLACK!” she cried. Some passengers cheered, but several looked crestfallen. “I’m so sorry,” an older man implored his wife. “I really did think it was pink.” “I know you did, honey,” said his wife morosely, peering into her empty glass.”
― Amanda Eyre Ward, The Jetsetters

“It was only recently that she was beginning to admit to herself how much it hurt to have to be fine.”
― Amanda Eyre Ward, The Jetsetters

“her insomnia likely had roots in her fear of losing control.”
― Amanda Eyre Ward, The Jetsetters

“Charlotte sipped her coffee and gazed at the rocky coastline, the deep green hills, clouds like smoke. How lonely it was to have no witness to her life. No one to guard her passage into slumber, no one to know that she had made it through the night.”
― Amanda Eyre Ward, The Jetsetters

“Although she hadn’t realized it at the time, Charlotte now understood that proximity mattered.”
― Amanda Eyre Ward, The Jetsetters

“She’d been doing the same things for so long: auditioning, seducing, preening. What if she turned it around, and let the world try to win her for a change?”
― Amanda Eyre Ward, The Jetsetters

“Somehow she'd labeled those days a humiliation. She'd based her choices--her giant house, her daughters' schools, her constant attention to family life--on erecting a wall between her grim childhood and her bright future. But she was beginning to see that the camaraderie with her brother and sister, the yummy microwaved dinners, the way they'd crowd around the small TV to watch Family Feud, yelling out answers--in some ways, those days had been wonderful. She promised herself now: it will be okay.”
― Amanda Eyre Ward, The Jetsetters

“One night, when Regan had brought The Giving Tree from the bookshelf, Flora had said she didn’t want to hear that one anymore. “Why not?” Regan asked. “Because, Mommy,” said Flora. “It’s the saddest story in the world.”
― Amanda Eyre Ward, The Jetsetters