Status Updates From The Other Side of the Story

"It was weird—she knew she was angry with him even if it didn’t feel that way, and although she missed him like a limb, there was no way back. Whatever had happened—and she still wasn’t sure exactly what—had contaminated them beyond fixing. It was so over."

This is truly "chick-lit" at its finest, honestly.

"Thinking of herself as a dutiful wife, instead of a woman with feelings and rights, meant that Dad was able to slot right back into the life that she’d kept warm for him. It infuriated me beyond belief."

"(In Ireland income from “artistic endeavor” isn’t taxable.)"

"Why can’t we love the right people? What is so wrong with us that we rush into situations to which we are manifestly unsuited, which will hurt us and others? Why are we given emotions that we cannot control? That move in exact contradiction to what we really want: We are walking conflicts, internal battles on legs, and if human beings were cars, we would return them for being faulty."