Unlikely Animals Quotes

“People talk a lot about first loves, or the love of your life, but people don’t say as much about the friend of your life.”
― Annie Hartnett, Unlikely Animals

“That’s why we like living with animals so much; they exhibit their joy so outwardly, remind us how to be better alive.”
― Annie Hartnett, Unlikely Animals

“It’s unfair how the body crumbles while the soul still lives in it.”
― Annie Hartnett, Unlikely Animals

“No one ever stops loving their high school best friend, no matter how we lose them. Some of us at Maple Street had lost our childhood best friends to world wars, to polio, to childbirth, to other violent ends, or just to plain old boring time and separation, but we’d all taken a piece of that love to the grave. That first love. It had shaped us all.”
― Annie Hartnett, Unlikely Animals

“That was only the imperfect human body having a hard time.”
― Annie Hartnett, Unlikely Animals

“You're not too messed up at all, you're just as messed up as you should be.”
― Annie Hartnett, Unlikely Animals

“Dying is an excuse for everything.”
― Annie Hartnett, Unlikely Animals

“Well”
― Annie Hartnett, Unlikely Animals

“Rasputin didn’t write War and Peace,” Clive said”
― Annie Hartnett, Unlikely Animals

“man, we thought at Maple Street, how we missed the excruciating pain of being”
― Annie Hartnett, Unlikely Animals

“But there’s always something you miss out on, at the end.”
― Annie Hartnett, Unlikely Animals

“It was like one of those viral videos when a soldier comes home from war and his German shepherd just absolutely loses her shit in disbelief. That’s why we like living with animals so much; they exhibit their joy so outwardly, remind us how to be better alive.”
― Annie Hartnett, Unlikely Animals

“That was only the imperfect human body having a hard time,” he told Harold Baynes. That line was actually something his wife had said first, to Auggie, as a way of comforting him, one of the times Auggie was trying to get off heroin. He was having bad diarrhea, a common side effect of the detoxing process. Auggie had shit his bed, Ingrid had cleaned it up, and that was exactly the kind of reassuring thing you say to someone you love when they are being an awful burden but you’re trying to convince them that you don’t mind. Not at all. No big deal. For you? Anything.”
― Annie Hartnett, Unlikely Animals

“But if Clive had to go soon, he hoped it didn’t take too long. He didn’t want his family to remember him as a dying man. He didn’t want to be a burden, didn’t want to be an eyesore.”
― Annie Hartnett, Unlikely Animals

“She’d come home for her father, not her brother. She was headed for the real, final loss of her dad. Yes, her dad exhausted and frustrated and embarrassed her, and she hadn’t forgiven him for having an affair, but she also couldn’t imagine the world without him. Her father had always taken up so much space. All the oxygen in the room.”
― Annie Hartnett, Unlikely Animals

“Her father often said that a poet loves anything that better illuminates the daily horror of being alive.”
― Annie Hartnett, Unlikely Animals

“snakes”
― Annie Hartnett, Unlikely Animals