I always worried someone would notice me, and then when no one did, I felt lonely.
The better you learn to take care of yourself, the less you settle for being around people who can’t or won’t treat you as well as you’re accustomed.
There are people we treat wrong and later we’re prepared to treat other people right. Perhaps this sounds mercenary, but I feel grateful for these trial relationships, and I would like to think it all evens out – surely, unknowingly, I have served as practice for other people.
Being called baby: like safaris and bowling leagues, a phenomenon she never thought she’d experience first hand.
Children are nothing but a problem people create and then congratulate themselves on solving.
I’m not a Democrat because I haven’t thought about the issues. I’m a Democrat because I have.
His ambitions exceed his talent.
My heart clutched – it was one of those moments when you feel time is a rug that’s been yanked out from under you; everything around you has changed so gradually that it is only all at one you look up and realize how different your life has become.
I have been granted the terrible privilege of deciding what would have happened with no one left to contradict me. And maybe I am absolutely wrong.
Well – ” My mother paused, and her tone was reflective in that way that is inevitably sad, because the past is sad. “What I remember,” she said, “is that you were always such a dear little girl.
And how heartbreaking, because if it were all just a few degrees different, she is pretty sure they could be quite happy together.
It would in retrospect appear to be a stop on a narrative path that was inevitable, but this is only because most events, most paths, feel inevitable in retrospect.
Puteam continua sa fiu vechea Lee, cea buna si incompetenta, Lee cea draguta si plina de fisuri, un Labrador flocos si auriu, care nu poate sta departe de nicio balta si se tot intoarce acasa cu blana uda si mirosind neplacut.