Edie was a gorgeous, avant-garde girl back in the day when that could be a full-time occupation, but in marriage she slowly became less wild. To Manny’s great disappointment, though, her domestic skills didn’t rise to the fore as her sexual and artistic ones receded.
Meg WolitzerTags: cook
They should hand out vibrators if they're going to demand so much of you that you can't find time for a private life.
Meg WolitzerTags: private-life
But here was where the question of talent became slippery, for who could say whether Spirit-in-the-Woods had ever pulled incipient talent out of a kid and activated it, or whether the talent had been there all along and would have come out even without this place.
Meg WolitzerTags: talent
...oh boo hoo, everyone’s life was hard, and if you’d survived the hardship, why write about it? Survival itself was enough.
Meg WolitzerTags: survival
Part of the beauty of love was that you didn’t need to explain it to anyone else. You could refuse to explain. With love, apparently you didn’t necessarily feel the need to explain anything at all.
Meg WolitzerTags: love
Is there anything sadder than the scrawniest little piece of uneaten chicken at a dinner party?”
“Hmm,” said Jules. “Yes. The Holocaust.
Tags: sadness
...he’s infuriated that his e-reader allows him to only know the percentage of a book he’s read, not the number of pages. This, he thinks, is 92 percent stupid.
Meg WolitzerTags: e-readers
No, of course not. I just feel content,” she said carefully.
“That’s an old person’s word,” said Ethan.
Tags: contentment
The mystery of desire was way beyond the conceptual abilities of Jules Jacobson. It was like ... robotics. Just another subject that she couldn’t understand at all.
Meg WolitzerBut this post-college world felt different from everything that had come before it; art was still central, but now everyone had to think about making a living too, and they did so with a kind of scorn for money except as it allowed them to live the way they wanted to live.
Meg WolitzerTags: money
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