81 quotes found
“This is much easier than when N left. Our son is unable to grasp and simultaneously turn doorknobs yet. If only this trick could be unlearned by men over thirty, many more families would celebrate ...”
“This is much worse than losing a cat. You do not wish the cat dead, for example, after the first two days. You still love the cat and presumably the cat still loves you, or some variation of love t...”
“I sensed he may have occasionally strayed in some of his past relationships. It was something I felt but ignored, a rent in the fabric of an otherwise splendid garment I thought I could mend. I tho...”
“They ought to do away with divorce settlements. Instead, both parties should flip a coin. The winner gets to stay where he or she is and keep everything. The loser goes to Paraguay. Thats it.”
“The real genesis is forbidden to me, vis--vis Ns inability to confess even the mildest transgressions.”
“Conversely, I though humiliation would be everything, but its such a nothing.”
“People told me not to get married; I didnt listen. No one ever listens, it seems to me now. Perhaps people should stop trying to communicate. N was not a communicator; early on, Id insisted on comm...”
“I think: I would like to take N back to a story right now, like a rake. I would say, "Oh, this rake is uneven. Do you have any where the tines go straight across?" I would like to do a straight ex...”
“Together we agree that there are few tableaus more pathetic than a woman poring over a plethora of self-help books, while in a small caf across town her husband is sharing a bottle of Pouilly-Fuiss...”
“My mother is a firm believer in the long pause, useful in interrogations, proclamations of truth, and the occasional cutting dead of someone without their knowing it.”
“Any way I slice reality it comes out poorly, and I feel an urge to not exist, something I have never felt before; and now here it comes with conviction, almost panic. I mentally bless and exonerate...”
“I mentally bless and exonerate anyone who has kicked a chair out from beneath her or swallowed opium in large chunks. My mind has met their environment, here in the void. I understand perfectly.”
“In so many senseless deaths, beauty is to blame.”
“Why is edamame always ready to expire? Its so urgent for a vegetable. Edamame. It sounds like an assisted form of suicide. Is there an advertising concept in this?”
“Already things are changing; its starting with small shit but oh its starting, the change, the irrevocable, impossible change.”
“I used to loathe ambivalence now I adore it. Ambivalence is my new best friend. ”
“So many events and moments that seemed insignificant add up. I remember how for the last Valentines Day, N gave flowers but no card. In restaurants, he looked off into the middle distance while my ...”
“The snag about marriage is, it isnt worth the divorce.”
“They feel life is for the taking, and that everyone deserves happiness no matter what the cost. I must remember these tricks if I ever decide to have my soul surgically removed.”
“Someday I will have revenge. I know in advance to keep this to myself, and everyone will be happier. I do understand that I am expected to forgive N and his girlfriend in a timely fashion, and move...”
