To a parent, your child wasn’t just a person: your child was a place, a kind of Narnia, a vast eternal place where the present you were living and the past you remembered and the future you longed for all existed at once.
“Isn’t that what any relationship is, in the end? Meeting someone and wanting to be with that person more than with anyone else, and trying to make it work.”
― Bride
― Bride
“I’d smiled as I washed my hands. And wondered if human beings ever really grew up, or whether life was simply a playground forever.”
― The Shadow Sister
― The Shadow Sister
“Kitty had realized a long time ago that privilege had isolated her. Even though part of her longed to run downstairs and join in, she realized that now, she could never be accepted among them. “And there they all are, dreaming that one day they might be up here where I am,” she sighed as James arrived to draw her bath.”
― The Pearl Sister
― The Pearl Sister
“I didn’t want to be saved from myself. Nobody does! All we want is permission to stand there naked and be our damned selves.”
― The Wedding People
― The Wedding People
“we remember the people we hurt so much more clearly than the people who hurt us.”
― Tom Lake
― Tom Lake
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