J. Courtney Sullivan Quotes

One of life's contradictions: how human beings were at once entirely resilient and impossibly fragile. One decision could stay with you forever, and yet you could live through almost anything.

It was amazing that you did not become your grief entirely, and walk about leaking it everywhere.

She had learned over time that to know anything was bearable. It was secrecy that could not be borne.

Now she saw that marriage was like being in a three-legged race with the same person for the rest of your life. Your hopes, your happiness, your luck, your moods, all yoked to his.

Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new.

The moment a woman was born determined so much of who she was allowed to become.

Every woman needs secrets,' her mother said with a smile then, her eyes meeting Sally's in the rearview mirror. 'Remember that when you're old like me, pumpkin, because the world has a way of making a woman's life everyone else's business--you have to dig out a little place that's only yours.

And anyway, once you allowed yourself to picture such a scenario, it couldn't happen. That was just the way life went.