Compromise, communicate, and never go to bed angry – the three pieces of advice gifted and regifted to all newlyweds.
You’re sexist. I’m so sick of liberal lefty men practicing sexual discrimination under the guide of protecting women against sexual discrimination.
I have a meanness inside of me, real as an organ.
I’m tired of dying.
Unconditional love is an undisciplined love and, as we all have seen, undisciplined love is disastrous.
Do you ever feel like bad things are going to happen, and you can’t stop them? You can’t do anything, you just have to wait?
He’s calling you a Cool Girl to fool you! That’s what men do: they try to make it sound like you are the cool girl so you will bow to their wishes. Like a car salesman saying, how much do you want to pay for this beauty? When you didn’t agree to buy it yet.
Ever been in a spelling bee as a kid? That snowy second after the announcement of the word as you sift your brain to see if you can spell it? It was like that, the blank panic.
I knew I liked her then, really liked her, this girl with an explanation for everything.
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.