“Wives think their husbands will change but they don’t. Husbands think their wives won’t change but they do.”
― Beautiful Ugly
― Beautiful Ugly
“Humans were strange, Six-Thirty thought, the way they constantly battled dirt in their aboveground world, but after death willingly entombed themselves in it.”
― Lessons in Chemistry
― Lessons in Chemistry
“Her body is so slim, it’s so lightweight, like she’s been underwater and just got out. She bumps into fewer things. There is just . . . less of her. And she’s so supple, so boundlessly energetic, the hangover burned off in minutes, cured with coffee and sunshine.”
― Wrong Place Wrong Time
― Wrong Place Wrong Time
“I told her that contrary to her opinion, high achievers regularly analyze complex problems and make judgment calls based on the evidence they have and the probable outcomes.”
― The Family Next Door
― The Family Next Door
“I finish my dinner and sip my whiskey, marveling as I watch my children. This is a new, bittersweet milestone of motherhood. They have gotten bigger, as have their problems. But they have also grown wiser, and that is a miracle because wisdom is not a thing you can acquire for your children. As I rise from the table, it occurs to me that part of what I feel, watching them, is a sense of betrayal. I carried these children into the world, paid their entrance fee with dues rendered upon my own body, and now they no longer need me.”
― The Frozen River
― The Frozen River
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