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“THIS is the story," I nodded toward the women. With dignity and true grace, they did their 'women's work,' as women always have in the aftermath of death, trying to bring order to what they cannot make right. And so it was with Lissa and Kate.”
― Martha Teichner, When Harry Met Minnie: A True Story of Love and Friendship

“At 5:17 P.M., from Carol:

HARRY once took a $25 stuffed sheep from Duane Reade . . . I paid for it of course. He shook it wildly all the way home. RESTRICTED!

I sat at my desk in the office staring out my window into the dark laughing and then thought, Oh Carol, how can you hurt so much and bear to be funny.”
― Martha Teichner, When Harry Met Minnie: A True Story of Love and Friendship

“I admired the cleverness of the clothes, her playfulness, her creativity. I commented on what a fashionable fellow Harry was, very cool. I didn't say that I found her composure excruciating to witness. I didn't ask how she could bear this show-and-tell without breaking down. These clothes represented how much she loved him. Did she feel a physical ache? Knowing this moment was coming, had she cried . . . alone?”
― Martha Teichner, When Harry Met Minnie: A True Story of Love and Friendship

“closest friends: planets in my personal solar system. I know myself by their presence in my being. I feel their gravitational pull...”
― Martha Teichner, When Harry Met Minnie: A True Story of Love and Friendship

“And I need at least one dog walking along beside me, even better, two, as I push my grocery cart east, across town, and then back. Without a dog or two beside me, I feel incomplete. I catch myself talking to one or the other even if they’re not there and then feel like an idiot.”
― Martha Teichner, When Harry Met Minnie: A True Story of Love and Friendship

“Making friends is easier when you’re young. People seem to have room in their lives then and the time to make an effort, before their routines, their careers, their families, their obligations, crowd out discovery and make candor unlikely, listening a luxury.”
― Martha Teichner, When Harry Met Minnie: A True Story of Love and Friendship

“Bull terriers are odd dogs. With their egg-shaped heads, slitty eyes, and pointy ears, they’re funny looking. Think Spuds MacKenzie or the Target dog. BTs are opinionated, exuberant, stubborn, extremely silly, and loving, but at times too smart for their own good. What does that say about bull terrier owners?”
― Martha Teichner, When Harry Met Minnie: A True Story of Love and Friendship