I Was Told It Would Get Easier Quotes

“The parents have all been posting up a storm, of course. At one point the previous day we'd all compared embarrassing "Can you believe she's looking at colleges?/tearful emoji" posts, to which all their friends added shocked faces and commented on the passage of time, yawn. Some of them went for the comparison post (Here's a picture of little Wanda in her Dorothy costume at four, here she is at sixteen; Oh my god I feel so old because this rite of passage is about me, not the one actually passaging) ...”
― Abbi Waxman, I Was Told It Would Get Easier

“Looking across the table at Alice, I realized a lack of eye contact was a constant for teenagers. It's not that they won't look at you, it's that they have many other things to look at and, to be honest, they've seen you before.”
― Abbi Waxman, I Was Told It Would Get Easier