Tennis Lessons Quotes

“Perhaps living contentedly is just finding pursuits that distract you from thoughts of oblivion.”
― Susannah Dickey, Tennis Lessons

“You wonder at what point a mother’s love gets exhausted.”
― Susannah Dickey, Tennis Lessons

“I am neither an especially smart person, nor an especially talented person. It is not that I am lazy or that I haven’t found the right path or that I’ve just made a couple of mistakes. I am average, and perhaps not even that, and there is nothing I can do to fix it.”
― Susannah Dickey, Tennis Lessons

“After all, is there anything more worthless than exhaustive remembering? What good has it done you?”
― Susannah Dickey, Tennis Lessons

“You wonder sometimes if your parents feel cheated; if they feel like they traded in their happiness for a daughter who has yielded little”
― Susannah Dickey, Tennis Lessons

“Perhaps living contentedly is just finding pursuits that distract you from thoughts of oblivion. It occurs to you that everyone else probably figured this out long ago. You pick up another biscuit. You hum.”
― Susannah Dickey, Tennis Lessons

“You wonder at how people can continue to breathe and walk and exist after their loved ones become irretrievable.”
― Susannah Dickey, Tennis Lessons

“You try not to think about the future. When you do it seems to come in stock video clips that have nothing to do with what is happening in your life right now. The only connection is that you are there somehow, as if by accident.(..) These images exist as clearly and seem as probable, if not more so as your life currently. None of them are any more or any less appealing than the others. and what matters is that in all of them, you seem content and things are decided. The difficulty lies in the great grey expanse between the you of now and the you of these images. The necessary steps towards one are so different from those towards another that it seems reckless to choose. Instead, you float closer and closer to the edge of that expanse, not allowing yourself to think about what will happen when you reach it. You're not convinced you won't just fade into nothing, into grey dust. This outcome, too, seems like something beyond your control.”
― Susannah Dickey, Tennis Lessons

“Molly had the baby. Little girl. Aoife. Joan isn’t thrilled about the name.”
― Susannah Dickey, Tennis Lessons