Liz felt the loneliness of confiding something true in a person who didn't care.
Jane resembled nothing so much as a pregnant angel. She
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.
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...
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.
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...
A reality show isn’t unlike the Nobel Peace Prize, then, Mr. Bennet said. In that they both require nominations.
She was at times most able to enjoy her family members when she could sense their presence nearby without actually interacting with them.
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 wasn’t wrong, which wasn’t the same as the idea being a wise one.
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...
Rudolph Walsh, you are my fierce advocate, and your wit and wisdom
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...
I bet things would be easier for you if you either realized you're not that weird or decided that being weird isn't bad.
He’s a lawyer in Atlanta, and he’s very active in his church, Mrs. Bennet said. If that’s not the description of a man looking for a wife, I don’t know what is.
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.
…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.