Jennifer Close Quotes

The neighbors are neglecting their exotic birds.

Family time was hard when it was your own family, it had to be twice as hard when you were the girlfriend.

Sometimes, she knew, people just needed a little time to be able to picture themselves in a new place, to see possibility in a blank space.

This is the first fall that I haven't gone to school. Maybe that's why I feel weird all the time.

I've never been on a date before," Isabella said to Mary as she got ready that night.
"You've been on plenty of dates," Mary said.
"No," Isabella said. "I've been out to eat with boys who were my boyfriend, but that's not dating. That's just parelle eating.

All he wanted was to know what to expect. His world didn't look like he'd thought it would, and she understood. how could he keep calm if he couldn't see?

If you pretend to have authority, people never question you.

When, I wondered, did every pregnant person get together and decide that Mama was the appropriate term to use? Why did having a baby turn these people into hillbillies?

We all laughed, but what I really felt was a sense of claustrophobia, something that had been happening more and more. It was like the city was getting smaller the longer we were there. It was incestuous, the way everyone knew everything about people.

That was all she wanted. To be back somewhere where no one looked at her strangely, where she fit in. And she knew that place was New York.

You never want to be the first one of your friends to get married. If you are, just resign yourself to the fact that your wedding will be a shitshow. Most people are still single, open bars are a novelty, and no matter how elegant the wedding was planned to be, it will end up looking like a scene out of Girls Gone Wild.

Here's what I still hate about DC: the way that nothing is permanent, the feeling that everything and everyone you know, could (and does) wash away every four or eight years. All of these important people, so ingrained in the city - you can't imagine that this place could exist without them. But one day they're gone and everything keeps moving just the same.

Harrison knew how to date. He made plans to go to dinner at restaurants where they could drink margaritas and hear each other talk. He took her to movies and then to a diner for grilled cheese. He always paid. He called when he said he would, and held the door for her. The first night she stayed at his apartment, he woke up early and came back with two cups of coffee.

And like most big families, they were loud and secretly thought they were funnier and a little more special than everyone else.

It wasn't that I didn't understand it, this jealousy, because I did. It's just that it was hard sometimes to watch a group of grown people act like seventh graders trying to sit next to the coolest kid at the lunch table. Honestly, it just made you feel sad because you always thought people would outgrow this, thought that adulthood would be different. And it wasn't.

Wanting him back was like wanting to cut off your arms or have your toes poked with needles. It didn't make sense.

Republicans like Fox News and NASCAR and Democrats like MSNBC and Starbucks." "Simple as that?" I asked, and he said, "Absolutely.

Isabella, you miss the essence of a boy. That's all.

sometimes I wondered if the whole point of their friendship was just to post these images, to prove to the world that they had a bunch of pretty friends.

Some friends are gossips and some are sloppy drunks. If you like them well enough, you ignore this trait and continue to be their friend.

That's the thing about giving advice, she could say. It might come back to haunt you.

Harrison was standing next to the dorm building, checking his Blackberry. She watched him from behind. How was she supposed to be okay just hating him and then loving him on alternate days. What if it never stopped?

She'd spent years working at places that were just a job and it didn't make it easier that you didn't care about it. If anything, it made it harder.

The thing is that you don't meet someone until you do ... and the older we get, the harder it is. And maybe not all of us will meet someone.

Somewhere after the dinner was served and before the cake was cut, Isabella lost Ben. Everyone at their table was up dancing and mingling. Isabella sat there and drank wine. She felt like a fool.

I wondered if people ever blamed the end of friendships on geographical differences, the divides that come from being born in different areas, culture clash.

I didn't know then that this was just part of DC, that everyone was always looking ahead to the next step, peeking around to see what other people were doing, calculating the next move.

And then there's the way that people come here, earnest and full of dreams, believing that they can make a difference. That's the thing about DC - people are always leaving but that makes space for the new transplants, the crowds that keep flooding in, full of energy and wonder.

There are fall days in October that are so beautiful they take your breath away. The sky is blue and the sun is strong and the air is finally the tiniest bit crisp. Most of the East Coast is already bundled up in their winter coats, but we get to appreciate the last of the sunshine.

When Lauren hired a woman to come to the party and sell sex toys, Kristi turned to her and said, 'This seems like something you would want more than I would. I mean, I have Todd now and we're getting married, so I don't really need a vibrator. But it's fun for the single girls, I guess.

For him, kindness was a reflex, and I envied that.

How can you be with someone if you never see them?

Breakups are tough," Isabella said. "But you got through it!" "I'm glad you're over him," Shannon said. "Now you need to go find another asshole to fuck with your head.

No," Isabella said. "I've been out to eat with boys who were my boyfriend, but that's not dating. That's just parallel eating.

In college, twenty-nine had seemed impossibly old. By now, she'd thought, she'd be married and have kids. But as each year went by, she didn't feel much different than she had before. Time kept going by and she was just here, the same.

She'd forgotten to do the right thing for one day and that was it. life was shit sometimes, it really was.

Isabella and Ben starting spending a lot of time together, but he never really wanted to do anything.

Ken was Mary's new boyfriend, a nice guy who made all their friends comments, "Oh, there he is. That's what she's been waiting for," as if finding your perfect match was a guarantee as long as you were patient enough.

You can imagine anything to be fun in retrospect- look at all those people who long for high school.