12 Quotes by Mandy Len Catron

Do married people know more about love than the rest of us, I wondered, or do they convince themselves they do by doling out advice?

Not everyone who eats imagines herself a dietician, but nearly everyone who has loved – which is nearly everyone – presumes to know something about how to do it right. Most advice is given for the same reason homeowners tell you to buy and renters tell you to rent. The goal is not to make someone else’s life better, but rather to assure the advice giver of her own choices.

The prospect of becoming unknown was paralyzing.