J. Courtney Sullivan

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.”