In high school, during marathon phone conversations, cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides, I began to fall for boys because of who they actually were, or at least who I thought they might b...
I exist in two places, here and where you are. —MARGARET ATWOOD,
You want your kids to do better than you did, he said. That's what the American Dream is all about. But it's hard when they outgrow you. It hurts like hell.
Nothing had just happened to her, she had made a choice, and then she had made another and another after that. Taken together, the small choices anyone made added up to a life.
Well, Chrissy, I'm afraid your grandmother's Irish Alzheimer's has gotten quite advanced - she's forgotten everything but her grudges.
This was how the modern working girl behaved. She didn’t hide her femininity or apologize for it, as they did in the old days. She flaunted it and, having been given more than any woman before her, de...
She had learned over time that to know anything was bearable. It was secrecy that could not be borne.
Beyond those was a stretch of sand and miles of dark blue sea. You couldn't make out a thing on the other side. As a little girl, Maggie believed that the world dropped off out there, that if you swam...
But then you were alone, your body trying to heal itself while your mind went numb. There was a mix of joy and the purest love, couples with real boredom and occasional rage. It got easier as the kids...
Someone could save your life without you ever knowing it. It happened more than most people realized.
For everything that was wrong with men.
You should call your brother and congratulate him on the new job, her father might say over the phone, and it would take Kate a moment to figure out what the hell he was talking about. Brother? She di...
Like Ronald Reagan said, trust but verify.
Kate was often preoccupied with how to do good in a corrupt world, where just by eating dinner or turning on a laptop each of us was complicit in someone else's suffering. She struggled with how to sp...
People wanted you to validate their choices by doing the same thing they had done.
And then there were the things Sally knew her mother would have loved. Those, too, made it easy to imagine how she might come back to life, since nothing good seemed quite real without her there to ap...
All over the planet women were being tormented, yet if you took sexism seriously, you were a bore, an idiot, or a pain in the ass.
Men made mistakes and when they asked forgiveness, women forgave. It happened every day.
Even if there was no God there was always the ocean- before you and after you, breathing in and out for all eternity.
It felt something like being in love, but without the weight of having to choose just one heart to hold on to, and without the fear of ever losing it.
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