Every Waking Hour Quotes

“She was right that he would never fully understand. He couldn’t climb into the darkness with her. But he could stand in the light and extend his hand and wait patiently to see if she would join him.”
― Joanna Schaffhausen, Every Waking Hour

“Why is it always about the mother?” She looked to Ellery. “The school notices come to me, not him. It’s the mothers who are expected to contribute to the bake sales and make the posters for the book fair and volunteer at the Halloween parade. If the homework is late, if the child isn’t practicing her piano enough, the teachers go to the mother, not the father. Fathers can jet off to work for weeks at a time. They can be twenty-five or sixty-five and no one bats an eye.”
― Joanna Schaffhausen, Every Waking Hour

“If money wasn’t going to make you happy, it could at least make you comfortable while you dealt with all your other shit.”
― Joanna Schaffhausen, Every Waking Hour