Status Updates From Three Women

“He pulled away when she pitched forward and then there were days when he felt her evanescing, another chance at youth was petering out and so he wrote, I am falling in love with you. And what he meant was, I am in love with who I am now, again, so please don't leave, because this fresh me will die if your crush on me dies.”

“The girls were beautiful and kind but they didn't understand an elemental truth—that they had been lucky, having been born into the right family. Clean water and skiing vacations.
Sloane could tell they would not acquire that sort of understanding with age. At least not for a long while. That was the sort of lesson a good nanny could not, as a rule, teach.”

“Sloane knew that one couldn't easily travel back in time to replay a memory. The gate that guards the reality of one's childhood is high and existentially heavy, & merely opening it takes more energy than one expects. There are tricks to it, too: You have to select the correct season of the correct year. You cannot go bumbling about in some generalized way & hope to uncover the reason you are afraid of wolves.”