Why was it so easy for men in the world to do as they wanted and so difficult for women?
“Happiness.” Grace rose, smoothing her skirt. “It’s a choice as much as anything. Or you could choose to”
― The Briar Club
― The Briar Club
“What a very long time one had to be an adult, after rushing through childhood and adolescence. There should be several more distinctions: the idiocy of the young twenties, when one was suddenly expected to know how to do adult things; the panicked coupling of the mid- and late twenties, when marriages happened as quickly as a game of tag; the sitcom mom period, when you finally had enough food in your”
― This Time Tomorrow
― This Time Tomorrow
“Wasn’t she? “No woman is anyone’s ‘other half.’ We are all entire people. Completely whole, and totally unique. But sometimes when you put two very different whole people together, a kind of magic, an alchemy, occurs. Bea said I was like eggs and sugar, and she was flour and butter, and when you mixed us together, we were more than just the combination of our ingredients, we were the whole damn cake.”
― Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting
― Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting
“grief was something that moved in and stayed. Maybe it moved from one side of the room to the other, farther away from the window, but it was always there. A part of you that you couldn’t wish or pray or drink or exercise away. She was used to him being so close to gone that gone was almost desirable—no one wanted to watch someone they loved suffer.”
― This Time Tomorrow
― This Time Tomorrow
“be angry, and if you stay angry long enough, it will become comfortable, like an old robe. But eventually you’ll realize that old robe is all you’ve got, and there isn’t anything else in the wardrobe that fits. And at that point, you’re just waiting to trade the robe for a shroud—or at least, that’s what I’ve always thought.”
― The Briar Club
― The Briar Club
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