

“It’s the intangibles that impress her the most. Sex, for Maggie, is in the way he noticed the cut on her arm from the rock. That he was upset because she hadn’t cried out, because she had kept the pain to herself. The way he peeled off his boxer briefs. The foreign softness of certain patches of skin. It would be these things that she would remember for years to come.”
― Three Women
― Three Women

“Every story is the sound of a storyteller begging to stay alive.”
― Everything Sad Is Untrue
― Everything Sad Is Untrue

“She felt life slipping. She felt that her body was being wasted, that her heart was resting like a steak on a cutting board.”
― Three Women
― Three Women

“I was the age at which parents suddenly transform from people who know everything into people who know nothing. â€�”
― The Testaments
― The Testaments

“I was buying time. One is always buying something.”
― The Testaments
― The Testaments
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