It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work.
Dying, you don't get to see how it all turns out. Questions you have asked will go unanswered forever. Will this one of my children settle down? Will that one learn to be happier? Will I ever discover...
When she went out to the kitchen, I knew she would be getting her Triscuits. That was what she had for her snack at the end of every workday: six Triscuits exactly, because six was the serving size li...
I'm beginning to think that maybe it's not just how much you love someone. Maybe what matters is who you are when you're with them.
I liked to dwell on these shortcomings now. It wasn’t only that I was wondering why they had ever annoyed me. I was hoping they would annoy me still, so that I could stop missing her.
The unsatisfying thing about practicing restraint was that nobody knew you were practicing it.)