Look How Happy I'm Making You Quotes

“Better to be the lover than the beloved, if one must choose between them. Amid the imbalance of the universe, let me be the one lit up with want.”
― Polly Rosenwaike, Look How Happy I'm Making You

“Everyone knows that only children smile out of sheer delight. In a real adult smile, there is always something other than happiness.”
― Polly Rosenwaike, Look How Happy I'm Making You

“Once it was romantic to trade sleep for sex. Now it’s just dumb.”
― Polly Rosenwaike, Look How Happy I'm Making You

“But the details are everything, as Tracy’s constantly reminding the high school students in her English classes. The details are what count. Without details, you can’t expect people to care about anything you have to say.”
― Polly Rosenwaike, Look How Happy I'm Making You

“His own smile makes you think of childhood seen from an honest distance, both lovely and lonely. Birthday cakes, park swings, a secret attic hideaway. And what is the age at which one develops a longing for impossible things?”
― Polly Rosenwaike, Look How Happy I'm Making You

“You pull him in close and tighten your grip. Over and over again, you save him from yourself.”
― Polly Rosenwaike, Look How Happy I'm Making You

“Baby Registry Please give this child a strong stomach, an infectious laugh, an independent spirit. A love of words, numbers, people, and solitude. A fear of poisons, reckless driving, guns—and nothing else. Make him or her contemplative but not to the point of fretfulness. Make him or her generous but not to the point of self-effacement. Let this child inherit Finn’s features, especially his eyes, nose, and mouth. And his trim, athletic limbs. His capable hands. Will-taste-anything tongue. Un-noteworthy feet. Ability to not shower for several days and still smell okay, even good in an earthy way. His musical talent—yes, especially that. Even his resistance to being pinned down, because why settle for anything less than a life full of great adventure? Let this child inherit an enduring faith in the power of secular humanism in a world full of racism, sexism, terrorism, and greed. If you must, my teeth and/or earlobes would be fine.”
― Polly Rosenwaike, Look How Happy I'm Making You

“her glummer moments, she thought that reading was the only thing she was good at, and what sort of skill was that for an adult to rely on in this world?”
― Polly Rosenwaike, Look How Happy I'm Making You

“One of the many beauties of New York City, a beauty shaded with disappointment and resentment, was that you could stay in it for the rest of your life, avoiding your past, living another life than the one you thought you were going to live.”
― Polly Rosenwaike, Look How Happy I'm Making You