The Ex Talk Quotes

“The thing about losing someone is that it doesn’t happen just once. It happens every time you do something great you wish they could see, every time you’re stuck and you need advice. Every time you fail. It erodes your sense of normal, and what grows back is decidedly not normal, and yet you still have to figure out how to trudge forward.”
― Rachel Lynn Solomon, The Ex Talk

“So often, I'm trapped between the pain of remembering and the fear of forgetting.”
― Rachel Lynn Solomon, The Ex Talk

“What would a mediocre white man do?” she asks.”
― Rachel Lynn Solomon, The Ex Talk

“But maybe that’s what we all are—halfway-broken people searching for things that will smooth our jagged edges.”
― Rachel Lynn Solomon, The Ex Talk

“You don't have to explain,' I say, though all I want is a detailed explanation with an accompanying PowerPoint presentation.”
― Rachel Lynn Solomon, The Ex Talk

“Make people cry, and then make them laugh,” my dad would say. “But most of all, make sure you’re telling a good story.”
― Rachel Lynn Solomon, The Ex Talk

“I used to think that without my dad, I'd never be whole again. But maybe that's what we all are --- halfway-broken people searching for things that will smooth our jagged edges.”
― Rachel Lynn Solomon, The Ex Talk

“Sometimes I feel like I'm playing at being an adult, like I'm constantly looking around, waiting for a real adult to tell me what to do if my garbage disposal starts making a weird sound or if I should be putting more money in my Roth IRA. I am just...I feel like a complete mess.”
― Rachel Lynn Solomon, The Ex Talk

“I guess I just thought I'd have everything figured out by now. I'm almost thirty, and I don't know if I feel any closer than when I was twenty-one or even twenty-five. There's so much pressure to have all of this shit figured out, and I don't have a clue what I'm doing.”
― Rachel Lynn Solomon, The Ex Talk

“Cool is the Kevin Jonas of compliments. It’s like saying your favorite color is beige.”
― Rachel Lynn Solomon, The Ex Talk

“Sometimes I wonder if content is really just a synonym for complacent.”
― Rachel Lynn Solomon, The Ex Talk

“Every time I imagined adulthood, it looked different from this reality.”
― Rachel Lynn Solomon, The Ex Talk

“He’s watching me with an expression of clear amusement. Instead of going in for a hug, I stick out my hand.
‘ i’m going to hold you to that.’ His hand is large, slender fingers fitting between mine and warming my skin.
‘it was a pleasure breaking up with you.”
― Rachel Lynn Solomon, The Ex Talk

“I'm a solid second, but I'm no one's first.”
― Rachel Lynn Solomon, The Ex Talk

“Talking about him was hard, but not talking was worse. So often, I'm trapped between the pain of remembering and the fear of forgetting.”
― Rachel Lynn Solomon, The Ex Talk

“The thing about losing someone is that it doesn't happen just once. It happens every time you do something great you wish they could see, every time you're stuck and you need advice. Every time you fail. It erodes your sense of normal, and what grows back is decidedly not normal, and yet you still have to figure out how to trudge forward.”
― Rachel Lynn Solomon, The Ex Talk

“I didn't want to go off the rails, but I wanted to get close enough to see what was on the other side of them.”
― Rachel Lynn Solomon, The Ex Talk

“Short people are nothing if not skilled counter climbers.”
― Rachel Lynn Solomon, The Ex Talk

“People say they want something serious, but as soon as it starts heading that way, they bolt. Either they’re lying or they realise they don’t want something serious with me.”
― Rachel Lynn Solomon, The Ex Talk

“You can take away my EKTORP and my MALM, but you can't take away my VITTSJÖ,' Dominic says, wrapping a protective arm around the bookshelf in his living room.”
― Rachel Lynn Solomon, The Ex Talk

“You let it fuel you. You do even better because you know there are people out there who are waiting for you to fail.”
― Rachel Lynn Solomon, The Ex Talk

“When someone dies, you don’t only remember their good parts. You remember the difficult parts, too,”
― Rachel Lynn Solomon, The Ex Talk

“If I kissed you again, it wouldn’t be for the show, or for research, or for any reason other than that I wanted to. I’d want to remember every detail. The way you taste. The way you smell. The sounds you’d make.”
― Rachel Lynn Solomon, The Ex Talk

“But you go into parenting hoping, maybe selfishly, that your kid will love the thing you love, and you can share that with them.”
― Rachel Lynn Solomon, The Ex Talk

“It’s impossible to get a hosting gig without experience, but you can’t get that experience unless you already have some experience under your belt. The joys of job hunting as a millennial.”
― Rachel Lynn Solomon, The Ex Talk

“His eyes scan my face and travel down my torso. His cheeks redden. It gives me a bit of a rush, knowing he’s very obviously assessing me.
You’re a catch. You’re a ten. I wait for a complement from this person who’s only ever been vile to me.
He clears his throat. ‘Cool,’ he finally says.

Excuse me while I walk right into downtown rush-hour traffic.”
― Rachel Lynn Solomon, The Ex Talk

“And just like that, he brushes past me with his thermos of coffee, already inducted into this club it took me years to join.

I hope the coffee burns his tongue.”
― Rachel Lynn Solomon, The Ex Talk

“Breaking News: Texas is hot. Texas in June deserves its own circle of hell.”
― Rachel Lynn Solomon, The Ex Talk

“The deceased don’t immediately become flawless human beings and it wouldn’t be right to turn him into one. We loved him, faults and all.”
― Rachel Lynn Solomon, The Ex Talk

“When someone dies, you don’t only remember their good parts.
You remember the difficult parts too.”
― Rachel Lynn Solomon, The Ex Talk