Michelle Hendricks’s Reviews > Nine Perfect Strangers > Status Update

Sometimes your life changes so slowly and imperceptibly that you don’t notice it at all until one day you wake up and think: How did I get here? But other times life changes in an instant, with a lightning stroke of good or bad luck, with glorious or tragic consequences. And suddenly your life takes a violet swerve in an entirely new direction.

(Napoleon) When he first met his wife’s odd detached parents he understood that Heather had grown up starved of love, and when you’re starved of something you should receive in abundance, you never quite trust it.

He’d been too young and happy to know that love wasn’t enough; too young to know all the ways that life could break you.