Martha Moody > Quotes

“Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease.”
― Martha Moody, Best Friends

“When you're in college you haven't had that much life. Parents, school, assorted youth activities—that's about it.”
― Martha Moody, Best Friends

“You adapt: the impossible becomes imaginable, thinkable, logical. Three easy steps." from Best Friends”
― Martha Moody

“You can gussy them up with all the pretty rationales you want, but most major life decisions are whims.”
― Martha Moody, Best Friends

“We were very...anachronistic. The love that dared not speak its name.”
― Martha Moody, Best Friends

“It hit me then that my family is gone, really gone, and even though I have ll these kids, they'll never know my family, so in a way they'll never know me, because they don't know me with my family. I don't have a context for my children.”
― Martha Moody, Best Friends

“Still, we're less betrayed by others, it seems, than by our own hopes and dreams.”
― Martha Moody, Best Friends

“He was big, that Sid. He was a force, a character, and I wondered fleetingly if Sally and I would ever seem as big to our offspring as Sid had seemed to us.”
― Martha Moody, Best Friends