every family was that close, she knew that, but she understood that if you got lucky, a sibling could feel like another limb.
“Natalie’s like a border collie, my mother used to say to the other women at church. She needs a project, otherwise she starts chewing the cabinet corners. Are you saying my son is a project? I imagined Doug saying. No, I imagined my mother replying. I’m saying he’s the cabinet corner.”
― Yesteryear
― Yesteryear
“If you can learn to endure pain, you can survive anything. Some people learn to embrace it—to love it. Some endure it through drowning it in sorrow, or by making themselves forget. Others turn it into anger.”
― The Assassin's Blade
― The Assassin's Blade
“People didn’t take turns having difficult moments; they came all together, like rainstorms and puddles.”
― Modern Lovers
― Modern Lovers
“Thank God for girlfriends. In this crazy, chaotic, divided world that was run by men, you could count on the women.”
― The Women
― The Women
“You are about to begin reading a new book, and to be honest, you are a little tense. The beginning of a novel is like a first date. You hope that from the first lines an urgent magic will take hold, and you will sink into the story like a hot bath, giving yourself over entirely. But this hope is tempered by the expectation that, in reality, you are about to have to learn a bunch of people’s names and follow along politely like you are attending the baby shower of a woman you hardly know. And that’s fine, goodness knows you’ve fallen in love with books that didn’t grab you in the first paragraph. But that doesn’t stop you from wishing they would, from wishing they would come right up to you in the dark of your mind and kiss you on the throat.”
― Margo's Got Money Troubles
― Margo's Got Money Troubles
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