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“So much for being a good friend was knowing when to keep your mouth shut.”
“Maybe that was the answer to good parentingpretending the first child was the second.”
“Maybe that was the answer to good parenting—pretending the first child was the second.”
“Some people smoked crack in alleyways. Franny ate chocolate. On the scale of things, it seemed entirely reasonable.”
“...all she wanted was a button she could push to pause her age, just for a little while, a few years, while she got used to the idea.”
“Why couldn't everyone stay young forever? If not on the outside, then just on the inside, where no one ever got too old to be optimistic.”
“Why bother getting married, going through all the pomp and pageantry, if you didn't think it was going to last? It was far easier to live in sin and not have to deal with the paperwork.”
“It was so long ago now that the job felt like part of her soul. Like being a teacher or an artist who made things out of sand. You never really saw the results. You just trusted that you knew what ...”
“Elizabeth ran her finger along the windowsill, gathering dust. The view was almost exactly the same as from her own bedroom, only a few degrees shifted. She could still see the Rosens' place, with ...”
“There was nothing about youth that was fair: the young hadn't done anything to deserve it, and the old hadn't done anything to drive it away.”
“She had the wild look of someone who hadnt slept in twenty-four hours, with purplish semicircles underneath both her eyes. Being eighteen was like being made out of rubber and cocaine.”
“There was nothing in life harder or more important than agreeing every morning to stay the course, to go back to your forgotten self of so many years ago, and to make the same decision.”
“She had the wild look of someone who hadn’t slept in twenty-four hours, with purplish semicircles underneath both her eyes. Being eighteen was like being made out of rubber and cocaine.”
