Elyssa Friedland > Quotes

“If you had a certain opinion about someone, anything they said or did confirmed it. Change that opinion, and suddenly their actions could be viewed in a whole new light.”
― Elyssa Friedland, Last Summer at the Golden Hotel

“Just because it failed in the end doesn’t mean it wasn’t wonderful while it lasted.”
― Elyssa Friedland, Last Summer at the Golden Hotel

“There is literally no way to prepare for parenthood. You can read all the books and make a schedule and love that little person more than you ever thought possible, but being a parent will still gut you. Your kid will say they hate you, they’ll projectile vomit in your face, they’ll have friends you don’t like or they won’t have enough friends and you’ll worry. You’ll never be sure if you should push them harder or whether you need to back off. You won’t know whether to follow your instincts or do what everyone else is doing. You will never be fully relaxed again.”
― Elyssa Friedland, Last Summer at the Golden Hotel

“Let’s go be hip. Good thing I got a new one last year.”
― Elyssa Friedland, Last Summer at the Golden Hotel

“If there was one thing he was learning from getting older, it was that most thoughts were better kept inside his head.”
― Elyssa Friedland, Last Summer at the Golden Hotel

“If you had a certain opinion about someone, anything they said or did confirmed it. Change that opinion, and suddenly their actions could be viewed in a whole new light”
― Elyssa Friedland, Last Summer at the Golden Hotel

“Life was always going to have some tension between the familiar and the new.”
― Elyssa Friedland, Last Summer at the Golden Hotel

“The thing about problems is that they will be there tomorrow.”
― Elyssa Friedland, The Most Likely Club

“There was something inherently unsettling about a place that made more money the more its clients lost. “I think it’s not really a place where family memories will be made,” Greta said. She was holding her handbag tightly to her chest, as if some in-over-his-head gambler would snatch it. Her observation was indisputable.”
― Elyssa Friedland, Last Summer at the Golden Hotel

“you hit a wall around age seventy where you simply refused to try new things, and you didn’t feel bad about it, either.”
― Elyssa Friedland, Last Summer at the Golden Hotel

“It was exhausting having to be on all the time. To worry about saying the right thing, laughing at the appropriate time—but never too much, because that was lame—and constantly maintaining an aura of cool. Cool. What did it mean?”
― Elyssa Friedland, The Floating Feldmans

“Annette conducted herself as though there was an audience around at all times, her performance carefully crafted to please adoring fans who, as far as Elise could tell, lived inside her own mind. “You”
― Elyssa Friedland, The Floating Feldmans

“Whatever schmuck hurt you, forget about it. The cool kids become window washers. The nerds live in nice houses.” “But I’m not a math nerd or a cool kid.” “You don’t know who the hell you are at seventeen. And you don’t have to. But what happens now doesn’t mean a thing later on.”
― Elyssa Friedland, The Most Likely Club

“What difference was there really between white powder and black thread when the end result was that the buyer couldn’t get enough of it?”
― Elyssa Friedland, The Floating Feldmans

“Life wasn't about choosing to be single on Mondays and married on Tuesdays, or getting to be a parent every other week. It was picking a lane and committing to it.”
― Elyssa Friedland, The Intermission

“You think you don't have room for another bite, but you still can't resist.”
― Elyssa Friedland, Last Summer at the Golden Hotel

“I wanted to go back and show everyone that who you are in high school has no bearing on who you are later in life.”
― Elyssa Friedland, The Most Likely Club