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.
It wasn't right that you could only understand your parents' pain once you'd experienced the things they had, and by then they were gone.
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...
I’m afraid your grandmother’s Irish Alzheimer’s has gotten quite advanced—she’s forgotten everything but her grudges.
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...
Like Ronald Reagan said, trust but verify.
Maggie wondered if in some ways all the complaining only made matters worse.
Motherhood was a physical act as much as an emotional one. It took every part of you.
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