Curtis Sittenfeld Quote
There then occurred the first and only paranormal incident of my marriage. Charlie shifted in his sleep, opened his eyes, looked at me and, without preamble, said, You have to forgive yourself for killing that boy. . . . For your own sake but for mine, too, he was saying, and his voice was hoarse from sleep yet also certain and insistent. If you don’t forgive yourself, you’re making that accident too important, you’re making him too important. Charlie paused. And I want to be the love of your life.
Curtis Sittenfeld
There then occurred the first and only paranormal incident of my marriage. Charlie shifted in his sleep, opened his eyes, looked at me and, without preamble, said, You have to forgive yourself for killing that boy. . . . For your own sake but for mine, too, he was saying, and his voice was hoarse from sleep yet also certain and insistent. If you don’t forgive yourself, you’re making that accident too important, you’re making him too important. Charlie paused. And I want to be the love of your life.
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About Curtis Sittenfeld
Elizabeth Curtis Sittenfeld (born August 23, 1975) is an American writer. She is the author of a collection of short stories, You Think it, I’ll Say It (2018), as well as seven novels: Prep (2005), the story of students at a Massachusetts prep school; The Man of My Dreams (2006), a coming-of-age novel and an examination of romantic love; American Wife (2008), a fictional story loosely based on the life of First Lady Laura Bush; Sisterland (2013), which tells the story of identical twins with psychic powers; Eligible (2016), a modern-day retelling of Pride and Prejudice; Rodham (2020), an alternate history political novel about the life of Hillary Clinton; and Romantic Comedy (2023), a romance between a comedy writer and a pop star.