Even our challenges here have made our lives richer and deepened our ability to feel. Our family has been very lucky to live somewhere beautiful.
Children are nothing but a problem people create and then congratulate themselves on solving.
A reality show isn’t unlike the Nobel Peace Prize, then, Mr. Bennet said. In that they both require nominations.
We all make mistakes, don't we? But if you can't forgive yourself, you'll always be an exile in your own life.
She really does like him, she likes lying next to him, she wants to be around him; when you get down to it, can you say that about many people?
She opened her mouth but did not immediately speak, and I felt, simultaneously, the impulse to coax the words from her and the impulse to suppress them. I always thought I wanted to know a secret, or...
Liz had tried not to experience the doubly insulting sting of being excluded by a person she didn’t care for.
It's good on the other side, but it's good on your side too. Enjoy it there. The loneliness is harder, and the loneliness is the biggest part, but some things are easier.
It would in retrospect appear to be a stop on a narrative path that was inevitable, but this is only because most events, most paths, feel inevitable in retrospect.
I take it you don't believe in love at first sight.''Does anyone over the age of thirteen? Do you?''I don't, no,' Darcy said. 'But I don't rule out for others what I haven't experienced first hand.
I noticed then that the red-haired woman was buying the food you eat when you live alone: a box of cereal, a few apples, a plastic container of plain yogurt....With an abrupt clarity, I saw how I had...
Fred! the nurse said, though they had never met. How are we today? Reading the nurse's name tag, Mr. Bennet replied with fake enthusiasm, Bernard! We're mourning the death of manners and the rise of o...
But I was living my life sideway. I did not act on what I wanted, I did not say the things I thought, and being so stifled and clamped all the time left me exhausted; no matter what I was doing, I was...
And now I knew myself to be generous with encouragement only when I either did not want the thing the other person sought of did not believe the person would really get it.
If it's great reverence you're looking for, or earnest expressions of gratitude - well, then you don't work with kids.
…it never comes down to a single thing you did or didn’t do or say. You might convince yourself it did, but it didn’t.
We create our own reality—that the truth, ultimately, is what we choose to believe.
Was this what marriage was, the slow process of getting to know another individual far better than was advisable? Sometimes [his] gestures and inflections were so mercilessly familiar that it was as i...
Then I thought of how my life at Ault was a series of interactions and avoidance of interactions in which I pretended not to mind that I was almost always by myself. I could not last for long this way...
She wasn’t wrong, which wasn’t the same as the idea being a wise one.