Always have a backup plan to the backup plan.
She said in the way you might wish someone good luck on the lottery.
Stay away from boys. They’ll either throw rocks or look up your skirt.
We had spent years battling for control of our marriage, of our love story, our life story. I had been thoroughly, finally outplayed. I created a manuscript, and she created a life.
Everywhere felt like a jail now- doors opening and closing, and me never feeling safe.
They pictured themselves dashing around Manhattan, latte in one hand, cell phone in the other, adorably breaking a designer heel while hailing a cab.
It was one of those moments where you saved me, you made me laugh at just the right time.
Just got to keep on keeping on.
I’ve always found my wife a bit dazzling, in the purest sense of the word: to lose clear vision, especially from looking at bright light. It was enough to be near her and hear her talk, it didn’t always matter what she was saying. It should have, but it didn’t.
You don’t ever want to be the wife who keeps her husband from playing poker.
When a child knows that young that her mother doesn’t care for her, bad things happen.
Love is the world’s infinite mutability; lies, hatred, murder even, are all knit up in it; it is the inevitable blossoming of its opposites, a magnificent rose smelling faintly of blood. – Tony Kushner, THE ILLUSION.
I’m a big fan of the lie of omission.
It took this awful situation for us to realize it. Nick and I fit together. I am a little too much, and he is a little too little. I am a thorn bush, bristling from the overattention of my parents, and he is a man of a million little fatherly stab wounds, and my thorns fit perfectly into them.
The truth is malleable; you just need to pick the right experts.
Because isn’t that the point of every relationship: to be known by someone else, to be understood?
She chirps the last bit as if that were all to say about a book: It’s good or it’s bad. I liked it or I didn’t. No discussions of the writing, the themes, the nuances, the structure. Just good or bad.
Everyone has a moment when life goes off the rails.
Friends see most of each other’s flaws. Spouses see every awful last bit.
My mother had always told her kids: if you’re about to do something, and you want to know if it’s a bad idea, imagine seeing it printed in the paper for all the world to see.