Rebecca Hardiman > Quotes

“What an excellent quality, he'd thought, a direct and effortless access to joy.”
― Rebecca Hardiman, Good Eggs

“He does not want to reflect on whether they’re confusing love with loyalty at this point, or that the children who have been the glue are devolving into its antidote, or, and this is too cynical, he knows, that the two of them are held together by a deeply rooted laziness, an abhorrence to having to dismantle their cluttered, complicated household and divvy up all the useless and embarrassing suburban crap they’ve accumulated lo these many years.”
― Rebecca Hardiman, Good Eggs

“His is a face of warmth... some lonely tenderness in it, as if he's suffered but blames no one.”
― Rebecca Hardiman, Good Eggs

“As if familial affection wasn't a quick peck or a clap on the back or an almost embarrassing thing to be got through. It was natural as breathing and something to linger on.”
― Rebecca Hardiman, Good Eggs