Now We Are Five Quotes

“As kids, we spent our beach time swimming. Then we became teenagers and devoted ourselves to tanning.”
― David Sedaris, Now We Are Five

“How could anyone purposefully leave us, us, of all people? This is how I thought of it, for though I’ve often lost faith in myself, I’ve never lost it in my family, in my certainty that we are fundamentally better than everyone else. It’s an archaic belief, one that I haven’t seriously reconsidered since my late teens, but still I hold it. Ours is the only club I’d ever wanted to be a member of, so I couldn’t imagine quitting. Backing off for a year or two was understandable, but to want out so badly that you’d take your own life?”
― David Sedaris, Now We Are Five