Girls of a Certain Age Quotes

“What I want, desperately, is for someone to sit next to me for a moment and hold my hand and say one kind thing I didn’t know was true.”
― Maria Adelmann, Girls of a Certain Age

“How could I have never smoked, not in all twenty-three years of my life? How many hours of work have I spent working when I could have been on a cigarette break? How many friends might I have made, standing around that ashtray, a happy tingle in my brain? How many times (all of those evenings at bars!) have I said no?”
― Maria Adelmann, Girls of a Certain Age

“it is nice to have a person so close to my mouth, even if he is holding a drill.”
― Maria Adelmann, Girls of a Certain Age

“I tell the guys that I understand. It seems unfair of me to handle it any other way. I give them reasons that they cannot come up with themselves. “You are still emotionally tied up in your previous relationship,” I say. “We’re coworkers, after all,” I say.”
― Maria Adelmann, Girls of a Certain Age

“In pictures, Grace’s parents are always drinking translucent cocktails next to terrible things like horses or politicians or rosebushes.”
― Maria Adelmann, Girls of a Certain Age

“If you separated us into our different environments—me in this messy apartment, him in the desert wearing fatigues or at home with his wife—you could no longer tell that we had come from the same place, but neither could you determine when we’d diverged, what choices we had made or what choices had been made for us.”
― Maria Adelmann, Girls of a Certain Age

“You have pickle juice on your skirt, Audrey,” said Julie.”
― Maria Adelmann, Girls of a Certain Age