This Lullaby Quotes
"All I knew about my father, really, was 'This Lullaby.' Through my life I’d heard it in the backgrounds of commercials and movies, at weddings, dedicated long-distance on radio countdowns."
"I am my mother’s business manager, therapist, handyman, and now, wedding coordinator."
"She takes on husbands the way other people change their hair color: out of boredom, listlessness, or just feeling that this next one will fix everything, once and for all."
"Most people put off my mother’s erratic behavior to the fact that she was a writer, as if that explained everything."
"She loved to plunge into projects, tackle them for about ten minutes, and then lose interest."
"People weren’t meant to be together forever, regardless of what the songs say."
"Sometimes I thought if she could read my mind it would kill her. Or both of us."
"I wasn’t wonderful, but I am a bit better than I used to be."
"She was small and wiry, full of energy and prone to dramatic outbursts."
"This is just the in-between time. It goes faster than you think."
"I’m not a chick. And second, I have a steadfast rule about musicians."
"I mean, brain surgeons can be crazy too, but no one says it’s all right."
"It seemed like a bad movie, this ritual we’d gone through twice already that I could remember."
"Just me and the future, finally together. Now there was a happy ending I could believe in."
"I sighed. This entire scenario was like the default talk-to-a-girl-at-a-bar script, and I was only playing along because I wasn’t entirely sure I could get off my bar stool without stumbling."
"Whenever you made a choice, especially one you’d been resisting, it always affected everything else."
"So far, I’d never met anyone with more ex-steps than me."
"If I let myself think about it much—and I didn’t—I had flashes of realizing that I’d been comfortable with him even at the very start."
"I could only imagine what structural damage lay beneath, deep in the foundation."
"It was so surreal, him splayed out on my carpet like he was."
"I always had a boyfriend in summer, someone that caught my eye after school was finished and usually lasted right up until the beach trip my family took each August."
"He was all loose ends, and I hated loose ends."
"Nobody's different. Remy knows that better than any of us."
"It's not too late. If you go ahead and break up with him now you'd still have a good month's worth of quality single-girl time before you leave for school."
"I still can't believe how low you've stooped. This is total girlfriend behavior."
"I'm not getting attached. It's just for the summer."
"No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater."
"Love is so unpredictable. Sometimes you’ll know a man for years and then one day, boom! Suddenly you see him in a different way."
"But the love we have for each other is bigger than these small differences. And that’s the key."
"It's like a big pie chart, and the love in a relationship has to be the biggest piece."
"Sometimes, it’s that first date, that first moment. That’s what makes it so great."
"Love is putting up with someone’s bad qualities because they somehow complete you."
"People like Dexter followed risks the way dogs followed smells, thinking only of what could lie ahead."
"It’s a challenge, after all, right? It’s not supposed to be easy."
"By the time I realized what was happening, it was already done."