The Wrong Family Quotes
"Day after day it eats me. I am tired, but not tired enough to kill myself."
"Wolves know when they’re being raised by bears."
"It’s never been this bad before. He’s been a college kid on a bender for the last ten years."
"If you’re not hungry that’s fine, but your dad—"
"I want to eat meat from now on because I’m not a vegetarian."
"I tore the pages out of my favorite book, one by one..."
"You should leave," Winnie told him. His eyes held on to hers for a painful second before he looked away.
"Go, Subomi's mom is waiting. Everything will be fine." She kissed his forehead, and for once he didn't look embarrassed.
"Fuck you, Nigel," Dakota said, shoving past him and out of the room.
"I’m going to bed, Winnie." He’d said it with so much finality she’d stopped dead in her tracks.
"I have no idea what you’re talking about, but if this is about my brother—I stood up for you tonight."
"I didn’t want your brother to move in, I didn’t want to have this fucking dinner party."
"She had the face of a whore who’d been out whoring." Her pillow agreed, though she hated that she was using her mother’s voice to slut-shame herself.
"Can’t say I’m not athletic anymore, can you?"
"You don’t care about homeless people," he’d said. "You just have upper-middle-class shame you feel compelled to atone for!"
"It wasn’t an incident; it was a crime. One Winnie had committed."
"But you still have time to expose the truth."
"I looked for my birth certificate once. My mom said it was ruined in storage when all the things got covered in mold and they hadn’t gotten around to applying for another one."
"It was too late now...two envelopes unfolded in her hands, the paper crackling from age."
"Things inside of things. That told her a little bit more about Winnie."
"Juno had the feeling that she’d open it and there’d be nothing in the interior."
"Why was she digging around—these people were not her problem."
"Instead of licking the strip, Winnie had tucked the flap inside and then rolled the envelope up, binding it over and over."
"The words were a series of blurred black lines."
"Licking her lips, she put the bottle back in the drawer and moved to Winnie’s side of the bed."
"The words on the papers were easier to see now."
"She’d never wanted to be rid of anything quite as badly."
"She was afraid of the thing that couldn’t happen."
"Winnie didn’t want that type of fight in her marriage."
"You couldn’t live with someone for years on end without knowing their patterns; good or bad you learned them."
"It wasn’t that he couldn’t leave, it was that he wanted to and couldn’t."
"She was back to her old ways: sweeping pieces of her crazy under the rug."
"Juno knew from a lifetime of training that she had to get inside the head of the person."
"What if no one knew Sam’s mother had even been pregnant?"
"The virus worked its way out of the house three days later."
"You get what you get, and you try to help them as much as you can. They take the help or they don't."
"We aren’t the only ones in control of our story arcs. Outsiders have an influence, too."
"I didn’t want it to be my last day, but sometimes there’s no way around these things."
"Breakfast should be fun. If you have a bad breakfast, you have a bad day."
"Everything was going to be all right...everything was going to be all right..."
"It was not fully dark yet, and she could make out several small figures across the street in the park."
"No day was safe, no hour, no minute; grief came and went as it pleased."
"The clock was ticking, and Juno wanted to make sure Sam was okay."
"You never stop grieving, but I suppose you know that, don’t you?"
"The key to making this work is not thinking of them."
"The heart’s desire is a mere current against the tide of nurture and nature."
"You can spend your whole life swimming against it and eventually you’ll get tired."
"Love can be seen as a burden. How can you get anything done when you have to consider someone else every second?"
"Experience has taught me that you can drag a man’s eyes if you move the right way."
"The essence of postcoital conversation is to talk about the future."
"The current of genes and upbringing will pull you under."
"Order is important when you live a life as complicated as his."
"It’s a hopeful day, lost in the middle of the more important days; not the beginning or the end, but a stop."
"I became a lot like her and a little bit like me."
"I’m thirsty for his attention and my kiss is aggressive and deep."
"The very first time they butted heads was over the name of the company."
"I love my husband, but I’m not the only one. There are others."