Kids are amazing. The first few months, they're just like these loaves of bread that shit. You're wondering what the hell you got yourself into. But then, they turn into people. It's the most incredible thing I've ever seen.
J. Courtney SullivanAnd then there were the things Sally knew her mother would have loved. Those, too, made it easy to imagine how she might come back to life, since nothing good seemed quite real without her there to approve of it.
J. Courtney SullivanWe 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 anyway.
J. Courtney SullivanTags: parents
A kid thinks her mother is just that -- hers. A mother is also a woman, an independent being, who doesn't want to be reminded by anyone, child or otherwise, of her tree-trunk thighs. The world made women's private lives a public affair to people who knew them and even people who didn't.
J. Courtney SullivanOnce this kid came into the world, Sally knew, she would live in constant terror of somehow injuring or losing her. Having her tucked deep inside her belly was the safest she would ever feel about the child, and even that was scary.
J. Courtney SullivanShe thought about him all the time - not so much about Doug the individual, but rather about the nature of love, and the shock of learning how quickly it could disappear.
J. Courtney SullivanTags: lost-love
With the Smithies, it was different. There was sometimes no telling where one of them began and the others left off.
J. Courtney SullivanTags: friendship sorority
There were so many ways to be twenty-six years old.
J. Courtney SullivanI think we're just different sorts of people, me and you. You're a planner. Everything has to be perfectly aligned before you make a move, or you're afraid the whole damn world will come crashing down. For me, it's more like, "We're having a baby. Now what?
J. Courtney SullivanThese fucking women really piss me off,' April said. 'Because instead of being elated by the thought of making their own happiness and chasing some crazy dream, all they want to do is narrow their options and do something safe.
J. Courtney SullivanTags: happiness dreams play-it-safe
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