Top 35 Claire Lombardo Quotes (2024 Update)

Claire Lombardo Quote: “And he realized, then, how silly it seemed that you could ever know another person – really know her – and how silly it was to think that he had any idea what it was like to be her, day after day.”

1. “And he realized, then, how silly it seemed that you could ever know another person – really know her – and how silly it was to think that he had any idea what it was like to be her, day after day.”

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Claire Lombardo Quote: “And this was what worried her the most: nothing had ever felt as comfortable, as easy, as good as being with her parents, her family. No one, it seemed, would ever regard her with the same enthusiastic awe as her mother; the same quiet, feverish pride as her father. It aroused concern within that she was slated for a lifetime of disappointment from the outside.”

2. “And this was what worried her the most: nothing had ever felt as comfortable, as easy, as good as being with her parents, her family. No one, it seemed, would ever regard her with the same enthusiastic awe as her mother; the same quiet, feverish pride as her father. It aroused concern within that she was slated for a lifetime of disappointment from the outside.”

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Claire Lombardo Quote: “Marilyn had gone to yoga while pregnant with Grace, had adjusted the household bedtime so she got enough sleep, had choked down the vitamins she’d evaded the first three times around. And what did any of it matter anymore, really, because Grace was smoking on the roof just like the other kids had done, having just undulated her way back home on the waves of a major lie.”

3. “Marilyn had gone to yoga while pregnant with Grace, had adjusted the household bedtime so she got enough sleep, had choked down the vitamins she’d evaded the first three times around. And what did any of it matter anymore, really, because Grace was smoking on the roof just like the other kids had done, having just undulated her way back home on the waves of a major lie.”

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Claire Lombardo Quote: “They would repeat it for years to come in times of strife: the most fun I’ve ever had.”

4. “They would repeat it for years to come in times of strife: the most fun I’ve ever had.”

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Claire Lombardo Quote: “You’re ethereal. My intangible everything.”

5. “You’re ethereal. My intangible everything.”

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Claire Lombardo Quote: “It endeared him to her. How she loved him, missed him, wanted to kill him. If someone asked her to poetically describe her marriage, she would articulate that particular feeling, one of simultaneously wanting him pressed against her and also on another continent.”

6. “It endeared him to her. How she loved him, missed him, wanted to kill him. If someone asked her to poetically describe her marriage, she would articulate that particular feeling, one of simultaneously wanting him pressed against her and also on another continent.”

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Claire Lombardo Quote: “It’s funny,” her mom continued. “I think so much of making a relationship work has to do with choosing to be kind even when you may not feel like it. It sounds like the most obvious thing in the world but it’s much easier said than done, don’t you think?”

7. “It’s funny,” her mom continued. “I think so much of making a relationship work has to do with choosing to be kind even when you may not feel like it. It sounds like the most obvious thing in the world but it’s much easier said than done, don’t you think?”

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Claire Lombardo Quote: “It takes such a long time to realize that it’s worth it. I wonder why we’re engineered that way. We’re sleep-deprived to the point of madness those first couple of years and then one day you wake up and you see the little person you’ve created and she says a sentence to you and you realize that everything in your life has been an audition for the creation of that specific person. That you’re sending freestanding beings off into the world and it’s entirely on your shoulders.”

8. “It takes such a long time to realize that it’s worth it. I wonder why we’re engineered that way. We’re sleep-deprived to the point of madness those first couple of years and then one day you wake up and you see the little person you’ve created and she says a sentence to you and you realize that everything in your life has been an audition for the creation of that specific person. That you’re sending freestanding beings off into the world and it’s entirely on your shoulders.”

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Claire Lombardo Quote: “You deserve to be with someone who can sit across the table from you and understand that it’s the best thing that’ll ever happen to him.”

9. “You deserve to be with someone who can sit across the table from you and understand that it’s the best thing that’ll ever happen to him.”

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Claire Lombardo Quote: “I think we make each other happy. Not always the same amount, and not always at the same time...”

10. “I think we make each other happy. Not always the same amount, and not always at the same time...”

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Claire Lombardo Quote: “Maybe another person couldn’t irrevocably save you, but they could sometimes calm you down, and that felt like an exquisitely magical thing.”

11. “Maybe another person couldn’t irrevocably save you, but they could sometimes calm you down, and that felt like an exquisitely magical thing.”

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Claire Lombardo Quote: “She’d given up so much and so little when she agreed to marry him, but he has been so fixated on having her that he had rarely stopped to consider what it would mean for her to allow herself to be had.”

12. “She’d given up so much and so little when she agreed to marry him, but he has been so fixated on having her that he had rarely stopped to consider what it would mean for her to allow herself to be had.”

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Claire Lombardo Quote: “There was a relief in just trying to experience him as a person, no management or censorship. She felt lighter than she had in ages. The world as it was would almost never be the world you wanted it to be, and there was a certain pleasure in finding your space in the schism.”

13. “There was a relief in just trying to experience him as a person, no management or censorship. She felt lighter than she had in ages. The world as it was would almost never be the world you wanted it to be, and there was a certain pleasure in finding your space in the schism.”

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Claire Lombardo Quote: “The kids were Marilyn’s life, parasite and sustenance, and he knew how much it thrilled her to think of them having kids of their own.”

14. “The kids were Marilyn’s life, parasite and sustenance, and he knew how much it thrilled her to think of them having kids of their own.”

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Claire Lombardo Quote: “Life was never going to be what she wanted it to be, and she’d decided to pragmatically lower her bar in a way that would have horrified her teenage self.”

15. “Life was never going to be what she wanted it to be, and she’d decided to pragmatically lower her bar in a way that would have horrified her teenage self.”

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Claire Lombardo Quote: “Find yourself a man who likes to hold babies, she’d said to Liza once. It’s a sign of good character.”

16. “Find yourself a man who likes to hold babies, she’d said to Liza once. It’s a sign of good character.”

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Claire Lombardo Quote: “Nobody’s ever prepared to care for a child full-time, is what I mean. Nobody understands what that means until they do it for themselves. We’re all just holding our breath and hoping nothing catastrophic happens. And how deeply you get hurt doing that! It’s constant pain. It’s a parade of complete and utter agony, all the time, forever.”

17. “Nobody’s ever prepared to care for a child full-time, is what I mean. Nobody understands what that means until they do it for themselves. We’re all just holding our breath and hoping nothing catastrophic happens. And how deeply you get hurt doing that! It’s constant pain. It’s a parade of complete and utter agony, all the time, forever.”

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Claire Lombardo Quote: “This was arguably one of the life-saving rationalizations for the institution of marriage, one party consumed with worry so the other could sleep through the night.”

18. “This was arguably one of the life-saving rationalizations for the institution of marriage, one party consumed with worry so the other could sleep through the night.”

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Claire Lombardo Quote: “I think she’s needed a place that wasn’t home. Don’t we all need that sometimes?”

19. “I think she’s needed a place that wasn’t home. Don’t we all need that sometimes?”

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Claire Lombardo Quote: “I wish I could take it all away from you sweet thing. Her mom said simply. It was a strange sentence. Darkly poetic. One that with a subtle shift in vocal inflection could have been a curse instead of a sweet proclamation of motherly selflessness.”

20. “I wish I could take it all away from you sweet thing. Her mom said simply. It was a strange sentence. Darkly poetic. One that with a subtle shift in vocal inflection could have been a curse instead of a sweet proclamation of motherly selflessness.”

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Claire Lombardo Quote: “He’s sorry. He’s embarrassed. He’s hungry. The Catholic trifecta. You’ve taught him well.”

21. “He’s sorry. He’s embarrassed. He’s hungry. The Catholic trifecta. You’ve taught him well.”

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Claire Lombardo Quote: “Normalcy: it bore a second look, sociologically speaking.”

22. “Normalcy: it bore a second look, sociologically speaking.”

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Claire Lombardo Quote: “The world as it was would almost never be the world you wanted it to be, and there was a certain pleasure in finding your space in the schism.”

23. “The world as it was would almost never be the world you wanted it to be, and there was a certain pleasure in finding your space in the schism.”

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Claire Lombardo Quote: “And it was striking, how much less alone that could make you feel, because of course to be peopled at all was a high-order gift, but to find people beyond your people was nothing short of miraculous, finding a person away from home who felt like home and shifted, subsequently, the very notion of home, widening its borders.”

24. “And it was striking, how much less alone that could make you feel, because of course to be peopled at all was a high-order gift, but to find people beyond your people was nothing short of miraculous, finding a person away from home who felt like home and shifted, subsequently, the very notion of home, widening its borders.”

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Claire Lombardo Quote: “It’s a strange feeling to have as a kid, like you’re responsible for your parents’ happiness,” she’d said to him, surprising herself with how frankly she was able to describe the way it felt to be the daughter of her parents. He’d been an attentive audience. “Not that you’re the cause of it, but instead that there’s some obligation on your part to ensure it. I didn’t really realize until recently that that wasn’t normal.”

25. “It’s a strange feeling to have as a kid, like you’re responsible for your parents’ happiness,” she’d said to him, surprising herself with how frankly she was able to describe the way it felt to be the daughter of her parents. He’d been an attentive audience. “Not that you’re the cause of it, but instead that there’s some obligation on your part to ensure it. I didn’t really realize until recently that that wasn’t normal.”

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Claire Lombardo Quote: “How could you grow people inside your own body, sprout them from your own extant materials, and suddenly be unable to recognize them?”

26. “How could you grow people inside your own body, sprout them from your own extant materials, and suddenly be unable to recognize them?”

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Claire Lombardo Quote: “She and David could talk about Wendy to only a certain degree of honesty; their firstborn was emblematic of too much for them both – too much heartbreak, too much tension, too much earth-shattering love.”

27. “She and David could talk about Wendy to only a certain degree of honesty; their firstborn was emblematic of too much for them both – too much heartbreak, too much tension, too much earth-shattering love.”

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Claire Lombardo Quote: “She’d fallen into motherhood without intent, producing a series of daughters with varying shades of hair and varying degrees of unease.”

28. “She’d fallen into motherhood without intent, producing a series of daughters with varying shades of hair and varying degrees of unease.”

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Claire Lombardo Quote: “The thing that nobody warned you about adulthood was the number of decisions you’d have to make, the number of times you’d have to depend on an unreliable gut to point you in the right direction, the number times you’d still feel like an eight-year-old, waiting for your parents to step in and save you from peril.”

29. “The thing that nobody warned you about adulthood was the number of decisions you’d have to make, the number of times you’d have to depend on an unreliable gut to point you in the right direction, the number times you’d still feel like an eight-year-old, waiting for your parents to step in and save you from peril.”

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Claire Lombardo Quote: “I think we allow ourselves to hurt the people we love the most because we know they won’t abandon us.”

30. “I think we allow ourselves to hurt the people we love the most because we know they won’t abandon us.”

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Claire Lombardo Quote: “Sometimes it was enough just to listen to voices that weren’t your own.”

31. “Sometimes it was enough just to listen to voices that weren’t your own.”

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Claire Lombardo Quote: “Life’s insistence on juxtaposing darkness and light would never cease to amaze him.”

32. “Life’s insistence on juxtaposing darkness and light would never cease to amaze him.”

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Claire Lombardo Quote: “You were right,” she said. “Thanks,” he replied. “About what?” “About the fact that we’re never going to – you know. Reach the finish line. With the kids. There’s always going to be something.”

33. “You were right,” she said. “Thanks,” he replied. “About what?” “About the fact that we’re never going to – you know. Reach the finish line. With the kids. There’s always going to be something.”

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Claire Lombardo Quote: “She was just trying to do the right thing, but it wasn’t so easy, because everyone in her life had a different conception of what the right thing was, and she herself was caught somewhere in the middle...”

34. “She was just trying to do the right thing, but it wasn’t so easy, because everyone in her life had a different conception of what the right thing was, and she herself was caught somewhere in the middle...”

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Claire Lombardo Quote: “But that was the thing: sometimes being a sister meant knowing the right thing to do and still not doing it because winning was more important.”

35. “But that was the thing: sometimes being a sister meant knowing the right thing to do and still not doing it because winning was more important.”

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Claire Lombardo Quote: “And while she never quite stopped resenting that fact, she held the anger back, stored it in the space behind her molars, biting down, every so often, and allowing herself to revel in the injustice.”

36. “And while she never quite stopped resenting that fact, she held the anger back, stored it in the space behind her molars, biting down, every so often, and allowing herself to revel in the injustice.”

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