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Top 15 Emily Fridlund Quotes (2025 Update)

Emily Fridlund Quote: “Her love for him has always been the underdog. She roots for it as if from a distance. She imagines what they must look like through the uncurtained window, the picture of tranquil domesticity they must now make. He smells like cilantro and beer, like curry and rain. And underneath that, he smells like himself, like nobody else, his body alarming because it is already so familiar.”

1. “Her love for him has always been the underdog. She roots for it as if from a distance. She imagines what they must look like through the uncurtained window, the picture of tranquil domesticity they must now make. He smells like cilantro and beer, like curry and rain. And underneath that, he smells like himself, like nobody else, his body alarming because it is already so familiar.”

— Emily Fridlund

Emily Fridlund Quote: “My wife could take your skin off with one glance, she was that excruciating. She could call you to her with one finger. She could do long division in her head. Another thing she could do really well was sob, and I envied her this, assuming it left nothing to eat at her inside.”

2. “My wife could take your skin off with one glance, she was that excruciating. She could call you to her with one finger. She could do long division in her head. Another thing she could do really well was sob, and I envied her this, assuming it left nothing to eat at her inside.”

— Emily Fridlund

Emily Fridlund Quote: “You can see eleven stars appear over the horizon if you don’t look for more.”

3. “You can see eleven stars appear over the horizon if you don’t look for more.”

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Emily Fridlund Quote: “Nobody believes you when you talk about happiness.”

4. “Nobody believes you when you talk about happiness.”

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Emily Fridlund Quote: “Later, I could get that drizzle feeling just about any time I saw a kid on a swing. The hopelessness of it – the forward excitement, the midflight return. The futile belief that the next time around, the next flight forward, you wouldn’t get dragged back again. You wouldn’t have to start over, and over.”

5. “Later, I could get that drizzle feeling just about any time I saw a kid on a swing. The hopelessness of it – the forward excitement, the midflight return. The futile belief that the next time around, the next flight forward, you wouldn’t get dragged back again. You wouldn’t have to start over, and over.”

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Emily Fridlund Quote: “Nothing is something after all. There’s math that proves this, of course, but also observations. I know it seems like math and observations are opposites.”

6. “Nothing is something after all. There’s math that proves this, of course, but also observations. I know it seems like math and observations are opposites.”

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Emily Fridlund Quote: “Of course, things always seem more impressive when you’re a little kid. That’s one of the reasons I don’t really want to go back. I mean, who wants to ruin one of the things you like thinking about most? Who gives that up on purpose?”

7. “Of course, things always seem more impressive when you’re a little kid. That’s one of the reasons I don’t really want to go back. I mean, who wants to ruin one of the things you like thinking about most? Who gives that up on purpose?”

— Emily Fridlund

Emily Fridlund Quote: “By their nature, it came to me, children were freaks. They believed impossible things to suit themselves, thought their fantasies were the center of the world. They were the best kinds of quacks, if that’s what you wanted – pretenders who didn’t know they were pretending at all.”

8. “By their nature, it came to me, children were freaks. They believed impossible things to suit themselves, thought their fantasies were the center of the world. They were the best kinds of quacks, if that’s what you wanted – pretenders who didn’t know they were pretending at all.”

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Emily Fridlund Quote: “You know how summer goes. You yearn for it and yearn for it, but there’s always something wrong. Everywhere you look, there are insects thickening the air, and birds rifling trees, and enormous, heavy leaves dragging down branches. You want to trammel it, wreck it, smash things down. The afternoons are so fat and long. You want to see if anything you do matters.”

9. “You know how summer goes. You yearn for it and yearn for it, but there’s always something wrong. Everywhere you look, there are insects thickening the air, and birds rifling trees, and enormous, heavy leaves dragging down branches. You want to trammel it, wreck it, smash things down. The afternoons are so fat and long. You want to see if anything you do matters.”

— Emily Fridlund

Emily Fridlund Quote: “You know how summer goes. You yearn for it and yearn for it, but there’s always something wrong.”

10. “You know how summer goes. You yearn for it and yearn for it, but there’s always something wrong.”

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Emily Fridlund Quote: “Without saying a word, Lily could make people feel encouraged, blessed. She had dimples on her cheeks, nipples that flashed like signs from God through her sweater. I was flat chested, plain as a banister. I made people feel judged.”

11. “Without saying a word, Lily could make people feel encouraged, blessed. She had dimples on her cheeks, nipples that flashed like signs from God through her sweater. I was flat chested, plain as a banister. I made people feel judged.”

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Emily Fridlund Quote: “Maybe there is a way to climb above everything, some special ladder or insight, some optical vantage point that allows a clear, unobstructed view of things.”

12. “Maybe there is a way to climb above everything, some special ladder or insight, some optical vantage point that allows a clear, unobstructed view of things.”

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Emily Fridlund Quote: “Maybe if I’d been someone else I’d see it differently. But isn’t that the crux of the problem? Wouldn’t we all act differently if we were someone else?”

13. “Maybe if I’d been someone else I’d see it differently. But isn’t that the crux of the problem? Wouldn’t we all act differently if we were someone else?”

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Emily Fridlund Quote: “My mother believed in God, but grudgingly, like a grounded daughter.”

14. “My mother believed in God, but grudgingly, like a grounded daughter.”

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Emily Fridlund Quote: “This was the best and worst thing about my wife: she felt sorry for me. When I put my work boots on the mantel or fell asleep on her side of the bed, she’d groan and clench her teeth. She’d kiss me, long and deep, a sigh of disappointment.”

15. “This was the best and worst thing about my wife: she felt sorry for me. When I put my work boots on the mantel or fell asleep on her side of the bed, she’d groan and clench her teeth. She’d kiss me, long and deep, a sigh of disappointment.”

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Emily Fridlund Quote: “Heaven and hell are ways of thinking. Death is the false belief that anything could ever end.”

16. “Heaven and hell are ways of thinking. Death is the false belief that anything could ever end.”

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Emily Fridlund Quote: “Winter collapsed on us that year. It knelt, exhausted, and stayed.”

17. “Winter collapsed on us that year. It knelt, exhausted, and stayed.”

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Emily Fridlund Quote: “He said if he were lucky enough to get back to the car, it would be because of Lily’s kindness and mercy. He wanted her to know how grateful he was – in advance. Before he unzipped his pants, before he said just a kiss and pushed her down, he wanted her to know she had a choice.”

18. “He said if he were lucky enough to get back to the car, it would be because of Lily’s kindness and mercy. He wanted her to know how grateful he was – in advance. Before he unzipped his pants, before he said just a kiss and pushed her down, he wanted her to know she had a choice.”

— Emily Fridlund

Emily Fridlund Quote: “This is how you keep a best friend: you talk out of guilt, you live in separate states. Again and again, you vow fidelity to her in fits of absurd hopefulness. It is the same as being in love.”

19. “This is how you keep a best friend: you talk out of guilt, you live in separate states. Again and again, you vow fidelity to her in fits of absurd hopefulness. It is the same as being in love.”

— Emily Fridlund

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