You could sell crack on the street and go to jail for decades. Or you could sell a woman, and be back out by morning.
J. Courtney SullivanWhen she was pregnant with Teddy, she feared that she’d give birth to a child who disliked reading. It would be like giving birth to a foreign species.
J. Courtney SullivanThe outside pressure to be married was intense. This had surprised her a decade ago, but now she thought she understood. People wanted you to validate their choices by doing the same thing they had done.
J. Courtney SullivanMen made mistakes and when they asked forgiveness, women forgave. It happened every day.
J. Courtney SullivanYou want your kids to do better than you did," he said. "That's what the American Dream is all about. But it's hard when they outgrow you. It hurts like hell.
J. Courtney SullivanShe remembered how she had felt cleaning out her father's clothes, wanting at once to hold on to every dirty handkerchief and musty page of sheet much, and yet wishing she were anywhere else on earth, free of it all.
J. Courtney SullivanTags: death fathers-and-daughters death-of-a-loved-one
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