I wanted to hold happiness in reserve, like a bottle of champagne. I postponed it because I was afraid, because I overvalued it, and then I didn’t want to use it up, because what do you wish for then?
Perhaps this is how you know you’re doing the thing you’re intended to: No matter how slow or how slight your progress, you never feel that it’s a waste of time.
All things being equal, why not be married to a rich man? (Somewhere, Hannah thinks, there must be a needlepoint pillow asking this very question in a cleverer way.)
You never know the nature of another couple’s marriage, do you?
She has always been a bystander in family destruction, never realizing she herself possessed the capacity to inflict it.
Mama!’ Rosie tugged on my shirt. ‘This broccoli is tasty and wonderful’.
We have to make mistakes, it’s how we learn compassion for others.
And the reason I’m telling you all this is that I want you to know no one in my life has ever made me feel worse about myself than you.
Children are nothing but a problem people create and then congratulate themselves on solving.
But I was living my life sideway. I did not act on what I wanted, I did not say the things I thought, and being so stifled and clamped all the time left me exhausted; no matter what I was doing, I was always imagining something else.
you know what her punishment is for tormenting you way back when?” he said.I looked at him.He said, “her punishment is being her,
How quickly we damn ourselves when we start to talk, how small and inglorious we always sound.
Foolish names and foolish faces often appear in public places.