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“Needing kindness myself, I am kinder now, and we get on amazingly well. [p. 110]”
“If I was ever glad to have gone, I was never glad to go.”
“He wasn't mad, he was sad.”
“This is a dynamic particular to encounters with male drivers, who seem to grow all the more indignant the more completely they are in the wrong. I think the emotional reasoning, if you can call it ...”
“Are you chuckling yet? Because then along came you. A big, broad meat eater with brash blond hair and ruddy skin that burns at the beach. A bundle of appetites. A full, boisterous guffaw; a man who...”
“I realize it's commonplace for parents to say to their child sternly, 'I love you, but I don't always like you.' But what kind of love is that? It seems to me that comes down to, 'I'm not oblivious...”
“You were patient, but I worried that your very patience tempted Kevin to try it.”
“Still, through a complex combination of optimism and longing and bravado, you would round it up. While a cruder name for this process is lying , one could make a case that delusion is a variant of ...”
“My mind is huge with little stories that I never told you.”
“You restored me to the concept of home.”
“In the particular dwells the tawdry. In the conceptual dwells the grand, the transcendent, the everlasting. Earthly countries and single malignant boys can go to hell; the idea of countries and the...”
“I was mortified by the prospect of becoming hopelessly trapped in someone else's story.”
“A carpet of despair which lay underneath the levels of fury.”
“I have no end of failings as a mother, but I have always followed the rules.”
“We all do it (or I used to-yes, once in a while, Franklin, what did you think?), we all know we all do it, but it isn't customary to say, "Honey, could you keep an eye on the spaghetti sauce, becau...”
“...trying to be a good mother may be as distant from being a good mother as trying to have a good time is from truly having one.”
“Although the infertile are entitled to sour grapes, it's against the rules, isn't it, to actually have a baby and spend any time at all on that banished parallel life in which you didn't.”
“How lucky we are, when we are spared what we think we want!”
“Like so many of our neighbors who latched onto tragedy to stand out from the crowd -- slavery, incest, a suicide -- I had exaggerated the ethnic chip on my shoulder for effect. I've learned since t...”
“I cant imagine that Im supposed to get over it , like hopping a low stone wall; if Thursday was a barrier of some kind, it was made of razor wire, which I did not bound over but thrash through, lea...”
