Ruthie

“I was twenty-seven. More than a thousand crowded days intervened between myself and that younger woman who be- lieved she could not live without Peter. When, rarely, now, I was reminded of the Peter I had known, I thought of him kindly, as someone with whom I had shared a painful postadolescence, someone who no doubt had been as bewildered as I about most things. He and I were married and had a child and separated, before either of us grew up.”
― Ursula Parrott, Ex-Wife

“Some men at sixty are the total of experiences had and philosophies considered. Bill was the total of recollected meals and wine, and of women kissed. Now, contentedly, he surveyed other people’s youth.”
― Ursula Parrott, Ex-Wife

“I felt cold and dry, like a Martini.”
― Ursula Parrott, Ex-Wife

“I may not be pure, but thank heaven I look immaculate.”
― Ursula Parrott, Ex-Wife