7 Quotes by Martha Moody

When you're in college you haven't had that much life. Parents, school, assorted youth activities—that's about it.

He was big, that Sid. He was a force, a character, and I wondered fleetingly if Sally and I would ever seem as big to our offspring as Sid had seemed to us.

Still, we're less betrayed by others, it seems, than by our own hopes and dreams.

It hit me then that my family is gone, really gone, and even though I have ll these kids, they'll never know my family, so in a way they'll never know me, because they don't know me with my family. I don't have a context for my children.

Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease.

When you’re in college you haven’t had that much life. Parents, school, assorted youth activities – that’s about it.

You can gussy them up with all the pretty rationales you want, but most major life decisions are whims.