De la misma manera que algunas mujeres cambian de aspecto regularmente, yo cambio de personalidad. ¿Qué personaje me sienta bien, cuál es el más deseado, cuál se pone de moda? Creo que la mayor parte...
Danish. I’d come to believe there was no food more depressing than Danish, a pastry that seemed stale upon arrival.
Dad phoned to wish us happy anniversary, and I picked up the phone and I was going to play it cool, but then I started crying when I started talking—I was doing the awful chick talk-cry: mwaha-waah-gw...
Dacă vrei să faci ceva și vrei să știi dacă-i o idee proastă, imaginează-ți că o vezi tipărită în ziar, ca să afle toată lumea.
But truly, it was a practical decision, a smart business move.
But it’s tempting to be Cool Girl. For someone like me, who likes to win, it’s tempting to want to be the girl every guy wants. When I met Nick, I knew immediately that was what he wanted, and for him...
But even as he was thinking this, he knew he’d have to aim smaller. That’s what he learned from his life so far: always aim smaller.
But I'm a romantic. In real life, if Nick had killed me, I think he would have just rolled my body into a trash bag and driven me to one of the landfills in the sixty-mile radius. Just dispose of me....
Betsy’s arm shot out, and my cheek suddenly stung. What the hell? I said, trying to figure out what had happened. A cherry-red jellybean was in my lap. I held it up. Every time you tense up, every tim...
Because isn’t that the point of every relationship: to be known by someone else, to be understood? He gets me. She gets me. Isn’t that the simple magic phrase? So you suffer through the night with the...
Because I realized I'd be stuck doing all the hard stuff, she reasoned. All the diapers and doctors' appointments and discipline, and you'd just breeze in and be Fun Daddy. I'd do all the work to make...
As a man, I had been my most impressive when I loved her – and I was my next best self when I hated her.
As a child, I was constantly being sent on playdates with other kids—the shrinks insisted I interact with cohorts. That’s what my meeting with Lyle was like: those first loose, horrible ten minutes, w...
Arkadaşlar birbirlerinin kusurlarını görür. Eşlerse birbirlerinin en kuytu kusurlarını bilir.
Angie’s house looked like a child’s drawing of a mansion: It was so generic it was barely three-dimensional.
And she’d feel sorry for the kids, but not in a way that made her want to help, just in a way that made her not want to look at them anymore.
An inside joke is like a symbol of friendship without having to do the work required of an actual friendship.
Amy made me believe I was exceptional, that I was up to her level of play. That was both our making and undoing Because I couldn't handle the demands of greatness. I began craving ease and averageness...
Amy could spend an entire evening out fretting that she lef tthe stove on, even though we didn't cook that day. Or was the door locked? Was I sure? She was a worst-case scenarist on a grand scale. Bec...
Although watching her three children toddle to her, sleep-stained from their nap, rubbing their eyes while they make their way to Mama, little hands touching her knee or arm as if she were home base,...