J
J. Courtney Sullivan
10 quotes
Quotes
- “Every woman needs secrets,' her mother said with a smile then, her eyes meeting Sally's in the rearview mirror. 'Remembe...”
- “The girls said she was too cynical about love, but how could you not be? On the surface, relations between men and women...”
- “One of life's contradictions: how human beings were at once entirely resilient and impossibly fragile. One decision coul...”
- “Now she saw that marriage was like being in a three-legged race with the same person for the rest of your life. Your hop...”
- “How could a person have and do all these stupid things--clip coupons and double lock the front door--and then one day ju...”
- “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 any...”
- “And anyway, once you allowed yourself to picture such a scenario, it couldn't happen. That was just the way life went.”
- “With the Smithies, it was different. There was sometimes no telling where one of them began and the others left off.”
- “Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new.”
- “The moment a woman was born determined so much of who she was allowed to become.”