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...
April's just a Dixie cup of crazy. Lydia's more like a twenty-gallon tank
Bree knew this habit of hers rankled Lara more than any other--her ability to make a decision and announce that there would be no further discussion was, in Lara's opinion, 'Cruel and selfish behavior...
But when you envision the perfect flowers and the perfect food and the perfect outdoor space and the perfect weather, you forget that you can't rent the perfect family to go along with it. You're stuc...
Each of Nora's children had arrived on this earth as him or herself, the more she knew them, the more she felt it to be true. They were so different from one another, and from her.
Gilot
He also believed that loyalty was earned - sharing a bloodline didn't mean you had to be close.
Maggie wondered if in some ways all the complaining only made matters worse.
He was forty-five
Her faith that love was everything in the end, even if it was an imperfect love, a love that depended on memory, on some former version of who they
Her mother… told Kate that after women got out of lousy marriages, they generally had the good sense to stay away from the institution altogether. While men just kept trying to get it right because th...
How could a person have and do all these stupid things--clip coupons and double lock the front door--and then one day just cease to exist?
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.
It seemed to Alice that everyone these days was out for themselves. The sort of families she and Daniel had grown up in and tried to carry on no longer existed, not really. Her mother had had eight ch...
It was amazing that you did not become your grief entirely, and walk about leaking it everywhere.
It was so bitter and sad, looking for safety in the person least likely to give it to you. Like drinking salt water, she thought. The house felt eerily quiet.
It was so nice to be on the cusp of parenthood, to be able to judge other people's choices with confidence, not yet having made any mistakes of their own.
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...
It’s a common enough mistake to believe that one’s own time is the most progressive, the most advanced. That human nature only improves upon itself. But in fact, things move in cycles—good to bad and...
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...
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