I’d always assumed that the people who lived in those fancy houses in the suburbs were financially better off than I was, and only once I’d joined them did I come to understand that it’s all just a mu...
It's an absurd request. Our minds, unedited by guilt or shame, are selfish and unkind, and the majority of our thoughts, at any given time, are not for public consumption, because they would either be...
I keep waiting for the universe to decide things for me, and the thing is, the universe has better things to do.
You learn not to think about what might have been, and to just appreciate what you have.
What do you mean by that, Paul? We are ending our sentences with names, which is the equivalent of fighters circling, looking to throw the first punch.
We are injured and angry, scared and sad. Some families, like some couples, become toxic to each other after prolonged exposure.
There’s no way to know what’s pissing him off right now. In my family, we don’t so much air our grievances as wallow in them. Anger and resentment are cumulative.
Someday she'll get older, and the world will start having its way with her. She'll throw temper tantrums, she'll need therapy, she'll grow breasts and have pimples, she'll fight with her parents, she'...
Over the course of a fifty-year marriage, one bad year isn’t very significant. Your marriage might still be there to be saved. But you’ll never know if you keep indulging your hate and anger like the...
Now we had to work to make ourselves fit into each other’s lives, to maintain our relevance to each other. In college our collective friendship had been at the center of our lives, and now the centrif...
If I were an athlete I’d be past my prime. If I were a dog I’d be dead. Thirty . . . shit.
I work for the Spandler Corporation. We are a three-hundred-million-dollar business, with offices in twelve states. We have over five hundred employees. We are known throughout the country as a leader...
At some point, loneliness become less a condition than a habit. In time, you stop looking at your phone wondering why you can't think of anyone to call, stop getting you hair cut, stop working out, st...
One of the lounge chairs. Serena
If there is an afterlife, then nothing here mattered, and if there isn't an afterlife, nothing here mattered.
You can never totally hate someone who sang you to sleep like that, can you? Who calmed you down and eased your fears. You can feel angry and betrayed, but some part of you will always love them
We should all just face reality and stop taking our meals together.
We have always been a family of fighters and spectators. Intervening with reason and consideration demonstrates a dangerous cultural ignorance.
Ti dà fastidio se fumo?Non rispondo perché non avrebbe importanza. Non puoi permettere che il tuo cane caghi sul marciapiede, ma è perfettamente accettabile soffiare sostanze cancerogene giù per la go...
This happens a lot, I’ve noticed. People form shiva alliances, arriving together to eliminate the risk of a one-on-one with the bereaved.