I had the fleeting thought then that we are each of us pathetic in one way or another, and the trick is to marry a person whose patheticness you can tolerate.
I am filled with gratitude at the astonishing fact of being married to someone I enjoy talking to, someone with whom I can't imagine running out of things to say.
Hannah is missing school because one night, her father exiled her and her mother and Allison from the house. This was, obviously, somewhat insane. But it wasn't more insane or cruel than other things...
At that time in my life, no conclusion was a bad conclusion. Something ended, and you stopped wishing and worrying. You could consider your mistakes, and you might be embarrassed by them, but the box...
If it's great reverence you're looking for, or earnest expressions of gratitude - well, then you don't work with kids.
You certainly should
We create our own reality—that the truth, ultimately, is what we choose to believe.
She was at times most able to enjoy her family members when she could sense their presence nearby without actually interacting with them.
You never know the nature of another couple's marriage, do you?
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...
Upon receiving that text from Georgie, she had, of course, wondered, Heard what? But she'd quickly gone from wondering to suspecting that she knew to being certain. Never would she have leapt to a con...
The tarps Ken Weinrich's crew used has yellow and royal blue stripes, not unlike those for a circus, and this had lent a festive yet undignified mood to the proceedings.
The Wisconsin land, scraped and rearranged by glaciers, accosted by tornadoes, drenched and dried out and drenched again—it didn't care what I had done.
She nodded, jotting something in her notebook.You’re writing that down? Has the interview started?Lee, whenever you’re talking to a reporter, you’re being interviewed.
She is shocked, and also afraid to look at him. As he turns the page, he's describing a dessert whose name he cannot remember but which arrived at the table in flames. She feels utterly bewildered. Th...
No, we were still in the same room, both of us having to breathe and speak in the aftermath of her wink.
It was more when things slowed down, during the parts when you were supposed to have fun, that my lack of friends felt obvious- on Saturday nights, when there dances I didn't go to, and during visitat...
If you knew where your happiness came from, it gave you patience. You realized that a lot of the time, you were just waiting out a situation, and that took the pressure off; you no longer looked to ev...
I feel like a lot of life is distasteful and embarrassing. And you just push through it. You fix what you can, and you let time pass.
For months I heard whispers and though it had seemed that they were carried to me on the wind, they were really coming from inside my own head.