Smile. It’s growing old that’s painful. That’s when reality hits. You find yourself with special memories that have nowhere to go and dreams that will never be fulfilled, and it doesn’t matter how whi...
Out. He watched her when they were at Kate’s tennis
Onset of slow-creeping mortification,
Gentle curves that had not been
Big part of growing up is learning to be cautious. It’s realizing that there are consequences to everything you do.
When the dust settled, they talked reasonably about the inevitability of change, the idea that they had to let go what might have been and accept what was.
When a vine withers and dies, you know you’ve planted it in the wrong place at the wrong time.
What’s the difference between a dead dog in the road and a dead lawyer in the road? There are skid marks in front of the dog.
Tombstones don´t list jobs, they list relationships-mother, wife, daughter.
There were ones with garden supplies and ones with health supplies, but neither offered anything remotely appropriate. There
Sometimes we do all the wrong things for all the right reasons. We can be our own worst enemies. It takes a while to get over that.
Mothering is precarious. You try to do the right thing—you think you have—then wham.
Life is like a game of cards. It deals you different hands at different times. You don't have that old hand anymore, . . . . Look at what you have now.
He had given Sarah this robe three birthdays ago. It was one of the few gifts he had given her that she actually used. He
For in the giving she received. It was what their love was all about.
By six-twenty she’d begun to fear that he had been tied up longer than expected. The switchboard was off; he couldn’t get through if he tried.
Won’t go any farther than my plants unless the rest of the place is exciting, which right now it is not. When the phone started to slip, she pushed it back up and began on the Ficus lyrata. They’re pl...
Vintage was a precious thing, dependent on variables like the weather, the age of a particular vine, the size of the Japanese beetle population.
Her. May I use the car?
The people who get places in life are the ones who stay ahead of the game.