263 Quotes by Meg Wolitzer

I have never been much of a researcher.

The thing that really gets me,” she said, “is that the worst kind of man, the kind that you would never allow yourself to be alone with, because you would know he was a danger to you, was left alone with all of us.

The minute you had kids you closed ranks. You didn’t plan this in advance, but it happened. Families were like individual, discrete, moated island nations. The little group of citizens on the slab of rock gathered together instinctively, almost defensively, and everyone who was outside the walls – even if you’d once been best friends – was now just that, outsiders.

In life, no one gives you credit for effort.

I might have things to look forward to again, things I can’t even imagine yet.

Irony was new to her and tasted oddly good, like a previously unavailable summer fruit.

But sometimes the way to get involved is to just live your life and be yourself with all your values intact.

I’m beginning to think I feel too much. The feelings flood into me like so much water, and I am helpless against the onslaught.

I’ve decided that there should be a national holiday once a year, when grown children have to let their parents tuck them in one more time.