119 Quotes by J. Courtney Sullivan

Now she saw that marriage was like being in a three-legged race with the same person for the rest of your life. Your hopes, your happiness, your luck, your moods, all yoked to his.

How could a person have and do all these stupid things--clip coupons and double lock the front door--and then one day just cease to exist?

Old age had distilled her down to her essence.

She had learned over time that to know anything was bearable. It was secrecy that could not be borne.

One of life's contradictions: how human beings were at once entirely resilient and impossibly fragile. One decision could stay with you forever, and yet you could live through almost anything.

Vielleicht war das Bild, das die eigene Familie von einem hatte, zu sehr mit ihren Hoffnungen und Ängsten vermischt, als dass sie einen jemals wirklich als die Person sehen konnten, die man war.

She had once said that she believed the women's liberation movement of the sixties and seventies was actually a ploy by men to get women to do more.

We don't always do the things our parents want us to do, but it is their mistake if they can't find a way to love us anyway.

She remembered how she had felt cleaning out her father's clothes, wanting at once to hold on to every dirty handkerchief and musty page of sheet music, and yet wishing she were anywhere else on earth, free of it all.