Emergency Contact Quotes

“Loving someone was traumatizing. You never knew what would happen to them out there in the world. Everything precious was also vulnerable.”
― Mary H.K. Choi, Emergency Contact

“I like knowing that you exist. It doesn't make me feel any less lonely, because life is lonely, but it makes me feel a lot less alone.”
― Mary H.K. Choi, Emergency Contact

“To be a hero, you had to decide it was you.”
― Mary H.K. Choi, Emergency Contact

“It's piles and piles of emotional homework forever if you ever want to qualify as a grown-up”
― Mary H.K. Choi, Emergency Contact

“Penny thought of this Korean saying for when you really, really liked something. You'd say it 'fit your heart exactly.' Sam fit her heart exactly.”
― Mary H.K. Choi, Emergency Contact

“Fiction was fine, but real life was the true freak show.”
― Mary H.K. Choi, Emergency Contact

“Penny believed with her whole heart that there were moments - crucial instances - that defined who someone was going to be. There were clues or signs, and you didn't want to miss them.”
― Mary H.K. Choi, Emergency Contact

“Let’s just say when I was little and my mom was out, I’d go to bed with a ketchup bottle.”

“I already love this story so much...”

“It was a foolproof plan. If the bad guys came in I could douse myself and they wouldn’t kill me because I was already dead.”

“Jesus, I can’t tell if that’s the cutest thing I’ve ever heard or the absolute most sad.”
― Mary H.K. Choi, Emergency Contact

“You've got to understand that not everybody's going to be exactly your kind of person. They're not going to be completely satisfactory or meet your myriad qualifications.”
― Mary H.K. Choi, Emergency Contact

“Finally, if you're wondering if it counts and it feels like it counts, it counts.”
― Mary H.K. Choi, Emergency Contact

“I want a world where everything lights up because I'm in it”
― Mary H.K. Choi, Emergency Contact

“It wasn't a romance; it was too perfect for that. With texts there were only the words and none of the awkwardness. They could get to know each other completely and get comfortable before they had to do anything unnecessarily overwhelming like look at each other's eyeballs with their eyeballs.”
― Mary H.K. Choi, Emergency Contact

“Everything precious was also vulnerable.”
― Mary H.K. Choi, Emergency Contact

“You can be with the same person for a long time and have it be fine and meet someone else who instantly makes you see that it's broken”
― Mary H.K. Choi, Emergency Contact

“I want to be with someone I can talk to. I want to be with someone who automatically has a fat folder on me. Someone who feels lucky when I tell them the most unflattering, scary stuff.”
― Mary H.K. Choi, Emergency Contact

“If you're going to be racist you should at least try to be less ignorant, although maybe that was a contradiction...”
― Mary H.K. Choi, Emergency Contact

“Yoyoyoyoyoyoyoyooyoyoyyoyoyoyo
Come by
I baked a SHEETCAKE
Your favorite
Confetti emoji”
― Mary H.K. Choi, Emergency Contact

“She smiled.
Sam smiled back.
She died.”
― Mary H.K. Choi, Emergency Contact

“And for all the people waiting for permission to level up enough before they start working on something big and scary--just go in. Don't be like me.”
― Mary H.K. Choi, Emergency Contact

“Dude. Every mom is the most annoying human in the universe, but most of them, besides the super-abusive genuinely bad ones, are in your corner.”
― Mary H.K. Choi, Emergency Contact

“She wished she could explore his body and inspect him. Learn him and memorize him. That way she'd know what to miss when he was gone. Sam was heartbreakingly, hauntingly beautiful. It made her heart hurt. This couldn't end well.”
― Mary H.K. Choi, Emergency Contact

“Penny would stop trying. Instead she'd spend time preparing for her future, living in books until the exciting part of her life would begin. Things would matter then. In fact, everything would be different.”
― Mary H.K. Choi, Emergency Contact

“The next morning Sam woke up feeling good. Not sensational or anything foolish but supremely okay.”
― Mary H.K. Choi, Emergency Contact

“Some people’s coping mechanisms were all about festering and secrecy and ruminating until you grew yourself a nice little tumor in your heart with a side of panic attack. Different strokes.”
― Mary H.K. Choi, Emergency Contact

“it's more this undeniable mood. It's this warm, familiar and exciting feeling where you miss them already when you're with them.”
― Mary H.K. Choi, Emergency Contact

“Everyone is capable of putting words down or telling a story. But not everyone will actually do it.”
― Mary H.K. Choi, Emergency Contact

“People scared Penny all the time. Like her mother and even Sam. It meant she loved them.”
― Mary H.K. Choi, Emergency Contact

“Loving someone was traumatizing.”
― Mary H.K. Choi, Emergency Contact

“He couldn't believe Jude's mute, macabre roommate had saved his life. He wondered if he'd have to get her a small taxidermied spider or something for her efforts.”
― Mary H.K. Choi, Emergency Contact

“When Penny left a banana on her desk as an offering, Jude rejected it. She refused it by putting it on Penny's work chair, so when Penny went to write, she sat on it. As tiny passive-aggressive revenges went, it was adorable, and it killed Penny that they couldn't laugh about it.”
― Mary H.K. Choi, Emergency Contact