All the Things We Don't Talk About Quotes

“If the chemo didn't work, the doctors had said, she had about a year left. If she died in a year, that would be 8,760 hours. If you slept eight hours a night, 2,920 hours of that remaining year would be spent asleep. Only the average amount of sleep a night would probably differ for a cancer patient. Where could he find the average amount of sleep a cancer patient would need? He needed to calculate. He needed data.”
― Amy Feltman, All the Things We Don't Talk About

“When you run from your feelings—I mean, when you reach a point where you would do anything not to think about how you feel—that's when you're in trouble.”
― Amy Feltman, All the Things We Don't Talk About

“Morgan dug their fingernails into their palms. It was real; they'd parked in long-term parking and it was time to take their shoes off and have their bodies scanned by a horrible machine and a man with a mustache burrowed his hands across Morgan's body, agreeing we are both the same, but they smiled because they wanted it to be over and when it finally was, they stood in front of the two bathroom choices and, defeated, went into the choice that meant they were invisible.”
― Amy Feltman, All the Things We Don't Talk About

“...the blurriness that existed between being excited and being afraid. How every moment of hesitation felt like it snipped another tender string that drew Sadie to Morgan; how they worried about touching her because it seemed too good, too undeserved, and how much harder it would hurt later when it all disappeared.”
― Amy Feltman, All the Things We Don't Talk About

“I just didn't know if you'd care about it," Morgan said. "Or if you were one of those people that thinks pronouns are stupid. Maybe you wouldn't want such a complicated... offspring."
"You're a fine offspring," Zoe said, her feelings sloshing like water in a pail. She was wreathed in impatience and nerves.”
― Amy Feltman, All the Things We Don't Talk About

“People were so easy. It was heartbreaking when you realized how easy it was to get people to think they liked you.”
― Amy Feltman, All the Things We Don't Talk About

“The shadowy flatness that usually accompanied them everywhere had receded, like a pincushion punctured. The sudden emergence of happiness—a happiness that felt wiggly, an eel that couldn't be grasped within fingers—was a cousin to Morgan's general anxieties.”
― Amy Feltman, All the Things We Don't Talk About

“The truth was, being around another person, even one that he loved more than he loved anything, was exhausting.”
― Amy Feltman, All the Things We Don't Talk About