You've Been So Lucky Already Quotes

“I know everything is painful right now, and you probably think it's going to go on like this forever, but there are things you don't understand, things that haven't happened yet that are going to change you the way a struck match changes the air.”
― Alethea Black, You've Been So Lucky Already: A Memoir

“No,” they”
― Alethea Black, You've Been So Lucky Already: A Memoir

“My suffering has become something else—a kind of strength.”
― Alethea Black, You've Been So Lucky Already: A Memoir

“I know I’ve entered one of those moments when my struggle becomes my song, and, when that happens, nothing else matters, and no one can touch me.”
― Alethea Black, You've Been So Lucky Already: A Memoir

“Not everyone would think it wise to order fish at a tiny Mexican shack in the middle of Nebraska. But I’m special like that.”
― Alethea Black, You've Been So Lucky Already: A Memoir

“It could be stress, or a delayed reaction to the fish tacos I had for lunch.”
― Alethea Black, You've Been So Lucky Already: A Memoir

“there is one thing Jack Kerouac said that I’ll never forget: “Accept loss forever. Be submissive to everything, open, listening.”
― Alethea Black, You've Been So Lucky Already: A Memoir

“When I get to California, I have only a vague outline of a plan.”
― Alethea Black, You've Been So Lucky Already: A Memoir

“Being bitten by a mosquito is like sharing a needle with the world.”
― Alethea Black, You've Been So Lucky Already: A Memoir

“This kind of rigid rule-following is not at all my style, but I understand that it’s the style of many members of my society.”
― Alethea Black, You've Been So Lucky Already: A Memoir

“I’ve always felt there was something magical about diners, especially ones like this that have mammoth menus and are open twenty-four hours.”
― Alethea Black, You've Been So Lucky Already: A Memoir

“I could write personalized wedding vows for couples who want something original but don’t want to do it themselves. If they liked, I could do it in iambic pentameter, but that’d cost extra.”
― Alethea Black, You've Been So Lucky Already: A Memoir

“Honk if you love Jesus. Text and drive if you want to meet him.”
― Alethea Black, You've Been So Lucky Already: A Memoir

“PENNSYLVANIA:Once Delaware Dies, We’ll Be the Oldest”
― Alethea Black, You've Been So Lucky Already: A Memoir

“Maps have always confused and depressed me; I have never once had a good experience with a map. I don’t know why I even bought a map, when my car has GPS navigation and this isn’t the 1980s.”
― Alethea Black, You've Been So Lucky Already: A Memoir

“I think it’s a little unfair of my mother to keep all her money, especially since most of it was earned by my father, who didn’t like her all that much in the end.”
― Alethea Black, You've Been So Lucky Already: A Memoir

“Other people stride so forcefully. They exist with such conviction.”
― Alethea Black, You've Been So Lucky Already: A Memoir

“I have kept my life small to protect myself. But, still, pain has found me.”
― Alethea Black, You've Been So Lucky Already: A Memoir

“Sometimes it’s hard to know the difference between a religious experience and bad potato salad.”
― Alethea Black, You've Been So Lucky Already: A Memoir

“I sit in my hotel bed in a worklike pose, but I do not do any actual work. As a freelancer, if I do not do any actual work, I do not get any actual pay. But I have lost all interest in punctuation.”
― Alethea Black, You've Been So Lucky Already: A Memoir

“Without asking, she slops a spoonful of saag paneer onto my plate. Staring at the soggy lumps of green cheese, I realize something. My college roommate is a bit of a bully. She has always bullied me, and I have always let myself be bullied.”
― Alethea Black, You've Been So Lucky Already: A Memoir

“Life is a carbohydrate orgy.”
― Alethea Black, You've Been So Lucky Already: A Memoir

“Now that I’ve been officially prohibited from interacting with carbohydrates, carbohydrates are all I see. I notice that people eat them right out in the open, walking down the street. Is this legal? Has this always happened?”
― Alethea Black, You've Been So Lucky Already: A Memoir

“I buy a lot of supplements. I’m surprised by how many things will cure everything. Vitamin C cures everything. Iodine cures everything. Ozonated oil cures everything. I put everything that will cure everything in a blender, hit “Puree,” and drink.”
― Alethea Black, You've Been So Lucky Already: A Memoir

“Not only do I not say what I think, I don’t say anything. Not because I believe her, but because I suffer from an absurd compulsion to be nice.”
― Alethea Black, You've Been So Lucky Already: A Memoir

“There are all kinds of ways to meet a kindred spirit—to encounter a like mind—and more than once, I sit in my blue corduroy chair, press an open book to my chest, and weep.”
― Alethea Black, You've Been So Lucky Already: A Memoir

“There’s a performative aspect to nonsolitude that comes naturally to me—I’m high empathy, and I can sense how to please—but it’s draining. It’s only when I’m alone that I feel most relaxed, most myself.”
― Alethea Black, You've Been So Lucky Already: A Memoir

“this has been my strategy for my homeschool MFA: read, write, throw away.”
― Alethea Black, You've Been So Lucky Already: A Memoir

“I’m at a loss. I could call my neighbors, who wear overalls and seem like they might know what to do about a snake, but I don’t know their number.”
― Alethea Black, You've Been So Lucky Already: A Memoir

“Proofreading comes naturally, because I’m a very slow reader with a healthy dose of OCD.”
― Alethea Black, You've Been So Lucky Already: A Memoir