The library drew Bean down the street, as it had drawn all of us over the years. Our parents had trained us to become readers, and the town’s library had been the one place, other than church, that we visited every week.
Eleanor BrownInstead, we'd do what we always did, the only thing we'd ever been dependably stellar at: we'd read.
Eleanor BrownWhat I mean is, I still feel like me. It's not like I wake up and think, I am a responsible adult. I just look in the mirror and see myself. the same stupid person I've been looking at for years.
Eleanor BrownStichwörter: being-an-adult
Not me, of course, as I am now officially a spinster librarian and must stay home with my cat and drink tea.
Eleanor BrownStichwörter: librarians
I have loved this disaster of a library since I was old enough to read.
Eleanor BrownThe wanderlust crept up again inside her like a shooting star, a sudden, violent urge to escape disappearing into darkness again. She pushed down the afterglow and focused.
Eleanor BrownCordy slept late, awakening only when the noises of the house and the insistent sunlight became to obvious to be believably incorporated into her dreams any longer.
Eleanor BrownStichwörter: sleep dreams sunlight
There is much made in the psychological literature of the effects of divorce on children, particularly as it comes to their own marriages, lo those many years later. We have always wondered why there is not more research done on the children of happy marriages. Our parents' love is not some grand passion, there are no swoons of lust, no ball gowns and tuxedos, but here is the truth: they have not spent a night apart since the day they married.
How can we ever hope to find a love to live up to that?
I’m just like this speed bump in the middle, slowing everyone down because I keep fucking up.
Eleanor BrownWe came home because we were failures … we crafted careful excuses and alibis, and wrapped them around ourselves like a cloak to keep out the cold truth.
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