I'm falling into disrepair
She loved them so much that she felt a kind of hollowness on the inner surface of her arms whenever she looked at them- an ache of longing to pull them close and hold them tight against her.
For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.
Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age.
Smells could bring a person back clearer than pictures even could.
Don't count on me to take you in because I'm angry. I'm angry at you for leading us on such a song and dance all these years, not just these few years but all the years, skipping all those holidays an...
The very thing that attracts you to someone can end up putting you off.
It was ridiculous of her to feel so wounded.
Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!
Why wasn't there an etiquette book for runaway wives?
But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all.
Bravest thing about people is how they go on loving mortal beings after finding out there's such a thing as dying.
He thought of dying as a kind of adventure, something new that he hadn't yet experienced. Like an unusual vacation trip.
Face it,' I said. 'There is no true life. Your true life is the one you end up with, whatever it may be. You just do the best you can with what you've got,' I said.
Ghosts... they are the completions of the deads intended gestures, there unfinished plans still hanging in the air - something like when you forgot one thing and so you pantomime the motion.
You’re only ever as happy as your least happy child?’
One thing that parents of problem children never said aloud: it was a relief when the children turned out okay, but then what were the parents supposed to do with the anger they’d felt all those years...
It was funny, in her old age, to look back and see for how short a period her nest had NOT been empty. Relatively speaking, it was nothing - empty far longer than full. so much of herself had been inv...
During all the months when she had been absent, there were so many things I have saved up to tell her, so many bits of news about the house and the neighborhood and friends and work and family, but no...
My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.