Top 66 Susan Juby Quotes
#1. In the future if my mother tries to shame me with her disapproval, I will let her know in no uncertain terms that I reject her and all of her codependent baggage. I am Codependent No More.
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#2. Good luck with that, I said. Because seriously. The fuck? Strawberry social? Did I somehow move onto the set of the remake of Little House on the Prairie?
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#3. I will pretend I do not have those feelings and eventually they will die from neglect.
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#4. I may never recover. It was like an out-of-body experience. I'm an alien trying on human rituals.
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#5. We got up and smiled at each other. His eyes were lovely, and I was reminded of a line in a book I read once, that God exists in the spaces between people.
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#6. There are truths found in books or films when some writer puts exactly the right words together and it's like their pen turned sword and pierced you right through the heart.
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#7. If you start looking up, they start asking questions.
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#8. When we reached the lobby outside the office, moving like a pair of power walkers
no running in the halls of Green Pastures because there was too much chance of knocking over one of the many ethereal, artistic types wandering around in hip glasses with the wrong prescription ... (39)
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#9. The pieces don't fit perfectly together and don't tell the whole story. Only the viewer can say if I succeeded.
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#10. The design is about expectations. Everybody wants something from beautiful people. From beautiful women, especially. But I think they're most stunning when they refuse to give anyone anything.
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#11. Much as I usually dislike nice, positive people, I have to admit that Margaret isn't bad.
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#12. I debated whether to tell them I had long since abandoned my writing career and moved into radishes and fraud, but decided the timing was wrong.
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#13. This bastard was in a self-help program? For what? Square-jawed, cleft-chin sufferers? Handsome Bastards Anonymous?
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#14. It's important to give people the benefit of the doubt even if they don't deserve it.
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#15. When I write my book I'm going to tell people that if they happen to forget their wide-mouth jar, they should pee far enough away from their position so it doesn't ruin their hiding spot.
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#16. It's not a good idea to let on about extreme happy feelings. People get ideas.
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#17. I think we learn the truth about ourselves by telling it to someone else.
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#18. My heart kind of hurt when I looked at her. Not because I was in love, but because I could tell from looking at her that she didn't hate herself. Not only didn't she seem to hate herself, she barely seemed to think about herself. How fucking glorious must that be?
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#19. If the facts don't fit your theory, just find some new facts.
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#20. I'm already in the late stages of advanced detachment where my mother is concerned. With a little practice I could feel that way about everyone.
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#21. There is nothing to be gained by trying to change reality. I know this. Completely. And yet. And. Yet.
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#22. She was a woman in her thirties with sun-damaged skin and an opt-out approach to fashion.
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#23. I want to ask someone the truth, I think truth is what has been missing in my life. Well, it's one of the things that has been missing, along with a sense of purpose and positive self-esteem.
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#24. I've always wanted to be self-sustaining and able to grow my own food. All I lack is land and skill.
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#26. Our families are often the thing that keep us stuck,
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#27. It's funny how you can be all alone and in danger and then a minute later feel totally safe, like you've never been lonely before.
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#28. It's been a pretty tough day," he said. "No sense making it worse with a salad.
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#29. She's extremely un-suburban and charismatic and has this way of making you feel you're the only thing standing between her and death due to boredom.
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#30. I think MacGregor might be a genius. Anyone so oblivious to the horror of the human world must be.
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#31. She is, like anyone worth knowing, many things at once.
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#32. Actual artists, and despite their reputation for chaos, most artists keep their supplies and work spaces scrupulously tidy. It's the personal lives that get messy. Dusk,
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#33. Sylvia, on the other hand, looks like she eats stress as an amuse-bouche and turns problems into cocktails.
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#34. To discuss schoolwork voluntarily would violate the agreement I have with my parents that I will be the biggest disappointment who ever lived.
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#35. Got anything to eat?" I asked.
"You know where the gas station is," said my incredibly nurturing and maternal mother.
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#36. If you rock the boat in a fragile family, the concern is that everyone will drown. Hmmm,
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#37. I haven't been that happy since I became conscious for the first time, you know, when I became aware of myself and got so uncomfortable and everything.
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#38. Maybe it's an artistic genius thing. People who go so deep inside themselves, especially when they're working, that they seem like sleepwalkers when they emerge. Traces of unconsciousness seem to cling to them, lending them an otherworldly sheen.
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#39. All good things are possible if you try hard and stay stylish.
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#40. It must be amazing to end each day consumed with something other than disappointment at yourself and the world.
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#41. Can you dance?
Of course, I said, even though I can't really. I think enthusiasm counts for a lot in dancing and in life.
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#42. I'm starting to think that pure truth is impossible, and that all narrators and all people are at least a little unreliable.
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#43. I don't do effortless myself, but I like it in other people.
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#44. Sherman: You are the worst.
Rick: You taught me everything I know.
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#45. When Tyler emerged from Pod 3, he looked like he always does
distracted and handsome with a double helping of hot-artist sauce (73).
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#46. Life is so full of portents and signs and symbols that it's a wonder not everyone is a writer.
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#47. I hate the way kids want all the attention. It's like I'm not even there when there's a baby in the room.
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#48. When you tell a story, you shape the truth.
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#49. Earl had let Bertie off the porch for some fresh grass and I didn't want Dr. Eustace to see her. She still looked as though we'd put Hannibal Lecter in charge of her shearing and had hired the special effects team from Night of the Living Dead to bandage her.
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#50. I don't care about this stuff. I'm not even sure I'm a girl. I'm an eye in the sky. I am detached. I'm an idiot.
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#51. I had this vision of the two of us holding hands or getting into some light petting behind shower curtains or up in the fencing aisle or some shit.
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#52. It seemed a little risky, enjoying something so ... fun, but I couldn't help it.
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#53. I believe the technical term is "space cadet." But she is the kind of space cadet many people aspire to be. My sister is fully alive to each moment and each observation.
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#56. Well, at least I can spare myself the ordeal of a whole battery of personality tests. My personality is poor; that much is clear.
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#57. Measuring someone is borderline invasive. You have to touch them and record their physical presence in the world. It's a pretty specific way to understand someone.
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#58. My mom made the trays out of kits she bought at Michaels. She's crackled the shit out of them so they look like they're covered in diseased rhino skins.
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#59. I knew he'd get left behind when the Rapture came due to his swearing and probably also for having long hair and tight pants.
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#60. Like the twig furniture she made, thinking it was going to make us rich, only she's shit with a hammer and nails and the stuff ended up being deadly. You were practically begging for a colonoscopy if you sat on it.
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#61. Bobby just stared at me. There was already crumbs in his mustache and it was barely seven in the morning.
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#62. I am strong. And I am stylish beyond all measure.
Allow me to leave you with a final thought:
So are you.
With love,
Charlie Dean.
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#63. It was beginning to occur to me that I was a little too in love with stereotypes and preconceptions.
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#64. If you are alive and conscious, you are probably codependent.
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#65. Not being a big one for having friends, I had no idea what I was going to do with Aubrey, you know, to entertain him.
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#66. Wetting one's pants is no kind of self-esteem builder.
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