67 quotes found
“Life was all about consequences”
“Some secrets are meant to stay secret forever.”
“Every marriage, every family, has its mysteries.”
“Women always reveal their deepest secrets to each other.”
“When you divorce someone, you divorce their whole family.”
“People can do what they like in the privacy of their own homes.”
“We were so happy.”
“She quite liked this aspect of her personality, the way her mood could change from melancholy to euphoric because of a breeze or a flavor or a beautiful chord progression. It meant she never had to...”
“Sometimes there was the pure, primal pain of grief, and other times there was anger, the frantic desire to claw and hit and kill, and sometimes, like right now, ther was just ordinary, dull sadness...”
“You okay, Mum?" said Rob."I'm fine," said Rachel. She went to reach for her cup of coffee and found that she didn't have the energy to even lift her arm.”
“It's about making a choice to make your marriage a priority, to, kind of, put that at the top of the page, as your mission statement or something.”
“He knew how the audition was going to affect their lives for the next ten weeks as she slowly lost her mind from nerves and the strain of trying to scrounge precious practice time from an already j...”
“She meant that they'd never used words like "separation" and "divorce" even in their worst screaming matches. They yelled things like, "You're infuriating!" "You don't think!" "You are the most ann...”
“This was historical revisionism at its best, and hadn't Sam always specialized in that, hadn't she always said she wished she had a permanent film rolling of their life so she could go back and pro...”
“If he could just have one more chance, he'd act like the man he'd always believed himself to be.”
“Why hadn't that been part of his stupid lifelong redemption program: Do what my wife asks immediately so she doesn't feel like a nag.”
“Somehow she knew there would be an unspoken truce on their unspoken battle over God knew what when they were old. They could both surrender to their innate grumpiness. It was going to be a lovely r...”
“It's because we live in a beauty-obsessed society where the most important thing a woman can do is make herself attractive to men.”
“If someone had asked him about his dreams on the morning of the barbecue, he would have said that he didn't want for much, but he wouldn't mind a lower mortgage, a tidier house, another baby - idea...”
“Nothing is rigid. Things change. You can change your mind. You can change your thinking.”
“You can think something is one way all your life, and it turns out you're wrong, it can be something else entirely.”
“Not all mysteries are meant to be solved. Not all secrets are meant to be told.”
“You think terrible things happened on the battlefields, but terrible things happened in ordinary suburban homes.”
