A lot of people see it as a kind of fai... - Leah Stewart - Quotes.Pub

A lot of people see it as a kind of failure to stay in the place where you’re from, especially if you’re from the Midwest. Like ambition is geographic.

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Leah Stewart Quotes

We will all satisfy our curiosity when we can, which is any time we think no one will catch us.

She couldn’t be sure that everything she knew about herself was portable.

Some people see their spouses as separate from them,′ Megan says. ‘And some people see their spouses as an extension of them, and that informs their attitude and behavior.

Adult friendship doesn’t grant you an exclusive, isn’t meant to be ranked above romance and family.

How they’d started out so much in love, and how things had slowly gone wrong, and how she’d tried, she’d tried, she’d tried. How whenever she resolved to leave Tommy, she’d succumb to sorrow and nostalgia, yes, but mostly she could just never resist her stupid, primal attraction to him, and one of those times they’d conceived Milo.

They say there’s peace if you can relinquish desire. For me desire’s absence has only ever left a dull persistent ache.

I don’t have to wonder where he he, what he’s doing, or who. I don’t have to worry about all the ways he’ll scar my son. I don’t have to watch myself give in again and again, audience to my own relentless weakness. I thought if he were gone I wouldn’t hate myself so much, which isn’t true, as it turns out, but still his absence is as close as I can get to freedom. There’s a certain clearheadedness now, there’s a kind of lonely clarity –.

When you’re young you have to invent tasks to fill the time, while I can kill an hour just making myself some tea. She.

How often do I get to forget my body? My body is too much with me. “Late and soon,” as Wordsworth has it, though of course he’s complaining about the world. “Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers,” etc. Thanks to Mrs. Smith, my tenth-grade English teacher, I still have that poem memorized. But Wordsworth and I do not agree on our difficulties. The world I can more or less get away from, as I think I’ve proven, and there’s so much of nature around me I’d be hard-pressed to long for more. Sometimes I wish the birds would shut the hell up. It’s not the world I can’t escape but my body. Not its demands so much at this stage, but its complaints and limitations. Its resistance and its pain.

The New Neighbor Quotes

Josh wanted to tell her what he knew: that love might look like a shore but turn out to be a desert island, where you roamed alone, talking to yourself, trying to crack open coconuts with your shoe. So thirsty you drank the salt water. So hungry you ate the sand.

The History of Us: A Novel Quotes

I was going to click my heels and go home, where life would be, as it is anywhere, a little bit dull Knasas, a little bit great and terrible Oz. I just wanted to stand here for a minute, first, and fix in my memory the life I wasn't choosing, the way Rajiv looked at me before I told him I was leaving, the cottonwood snow.Nathan watched me, an uncertain look on his perfectly, terribly familiar face."Are you ready?" he said

Husband and wife Quotes

She could have made different choices, but all that mattered were the ones she’d made.

The History of Us: A Novel Quotes

If he’d lived I might have married him and had a passel of brats and a dog. Who wants that happy ending?” “A lot of people.” “It’s bullshit.” “Yes,” she said. “I know.

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The Myth of You and Me Quotes

The world has forgotten that there is more pleasure in wondering than knowing.

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Why do people let me speak to them so rudely? If they’d let me get away with less, I might think what I said mattered more.

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His face became a mirror, and in it I saw a monster version of myself, unleashing my anger like black magic. In front of my children, in front of my neighbors' house. If I'd really been a witch Nathan would have been a column of dust. Not even a lizard, not even a toad. Just nothing. Nothingness,

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I want to be alone. I don’t want to be alone. My days pop like bubbles. There is no one to remember the things that have happened to me.

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I’d always been suspicious of unrelenting sunniness, what it must be working so hard to conceal.

The Myth of You and Me Quotes

He thought of asking her, but for no reason he could name, the silence between them seemed too hard to break.

The History of Us Quotes

Why was it so hard to tell the difference between what you thought you wanted and what you wanted? Why did people have to be such a danger to themselves?

The History of Us: A Novel Quotes

between what you thought you wanted and what you wanted? Why did people have to be such a danger to themselves? She had had reasons for her choices. Good

The History of Us: A Novel Quotes

I was traumatizing her. I could only hope that at three she was too young to retain any of this in memory, that in the years to follow I could make up for any future need for therapy I was creating now. Could I? Or would she always have a deep insecurity, the kind that send people careening from one disastrous romance to the next? And why did I have to live my life obsessed with these kinds of concerns, this constant attempt to control the most uncertain of outcomes, my own effect on someone else's mind?

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... I thought that because my father was military, I was, too... I'd treated my life there... like a tour of duty, and... the only reason I was leaving was that my year was up.

The Myth of You and Me Quotes

You like being in love with someone who’s not going to love you back.” She opened her eyes. He looked at her. “Why would I like that?” she asked. He shrugged. “I don’t know.

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