All My Mother's Lovers Quotes

“It was one of those intimate, extremely intense friendships that fizzled out when they were no longer in the same space.”
― Ilana Masad, All My Mother's Lovers

“The distance Maggie still feels from the existence of her grief makes her intensely self-conscious, as if she’s acting in a movie about a woman who goes home when her mother dies rather than actually experiencing it.”
― Ilana Masad, All My Mother's Lovers

“Everyone has reasons for everything they do. Good, bad, racist, phobic, logical or not, doesn’t really matter. The reasons exist, for them.”
― Ilana Masad, All My Mother's Lovers

“feeling and showing insecurity were two different things, and that the latter was deeply unattractive”
― Ilana Masad, All My Mother's Lovers

“Grief, she realizes, is selfish. It’s about what she’s losing, not what her mother lost, not what her mother still had time or desire to do in her life—and surely there was a lot. Iris was young, as old people go.”
― Ilana Masad, All My Mother's Lovers

“Plus, you queer kids need to learn that we've always been here. Don't forget that, or else you let the idiots keep thinking we're just rebels sticking it to their Adam and Eve shit every generation all over again. We've always been here.”
― Ilana Masad, All My Mother's Lovers

“Being a big sister hasn't always been particularly important to her, but it certainly reminds her of the passing of time.”
― Ilana Masad, All My Mother's Lovers

“The truth is, the world will probably whittle your daughter down. But a mother never should. —Meg Wolitzer, The Interestings”
― Ilana Masad, All My Mother's Lovers

“Maybe, she thinks, taking another hit. Maybe she does hate men after all.”
― Ilana Masad, All My Mother's Lovers