She say guilt is a useless emotion."
"Oh, please," says Nancy. "Guilt is what separates humans from animals.
In the aftermath of death Small talk feels too small, big talk too enormous.
Anna QuindlenYour children make it impossible to regret your past. They're its finest fruits. Sometimes the only ones.
Anna QuindlenI have a cat, the pet that ranks just above a throw pillow in terms of required responsibility.
Anna QuindlenTag: cats
Out lives, so settled, so specific, are built on happenstance.
Anna QuindlenThere's something undeniable about the posture of a person trying not to acknowledge your existance
Anna QuindlenMy friendships have a certain symmetry at the moment: Alice is always asking me what she should do, and Nancy is always telling me what I should do.
Anna QuindlenIt's only before realities set in that we can treasure our delusions.
Anna QuindlenOur love of lockstep is our greatest curse, the source of all that bedevils us. It is the source of homophobia, xenophobia, racism, sexism, terrorism, bigotry of every variety and hue, because it tells us there is one right way to do things, to look, to behave, to feel, when the only right way is to feel your heart hammering inside you and to listen to what its timpani is saying.
Anna QuindlenTag: racism bigotry sexism terrorism xenophobia homophobia lockstep
How many times in the past three months have I been reminded of Ruby's two selves, the careful courteous young woman who spoke so sweetly to strangers and the person she let loose at home, where she was safe, where she could be spiky and harsh and uncertain and at sea? I have two selves now, too, the one that goes out in the world and says what sound like the right things and nods and listens and sometimes even smiles, and the real woman, who watches her in wonder, who is nothing but a wound, a wound that will not stop throbbing except when it is anesthetized. I know what the world wants: It wants me to heal. But to heal I would have to forget, and if I forget my family truly dies.
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