Anne Alsikjouzie’s Reviews > You Are Here > Status Update

She had never quite lost the habit of taking the weather personally. If washing windows or leaving her umbrella at home could bring the rain, what could she do to make the sun shine?

People who said they were separated, not divorced, were like people who insisted that a tomato was a fruit, not a vegetable: technically correct but on shaky ground. No one ate tomato ice cream.

Cleo had told him “just be yourself” by which she meant “be your former self” and that was no longer possible.

Stepping outside transformed loneliness into solitude, a far more dignified state because it was his choice.

“If anything she tried too hard, a people-pleaser, though no one ever seemed that pleased”

“There is who we want to be and there is who we are.”