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she thought it was accurate, this idea of being against convention, and that it was a good thing for women, because convention ruined all the women she knew. All her life, she had done things differently from the way she’d been told, and it pleased her to no end to collect the payoff on following her wishes and instincts.

Casey wanted to hold her back, to touch her. It amazed her how much she wanted her mother to touch her, too, and the more persistent this desire grew, the more Casey pulled back, because this need felt dangerous, as though the touch alone might burn her alive

powerless person’s sorry attempt to regain some dignity

Casey wasn’t indifferent to her father’s pain. But she’d decided she didn’t want to hear about it anymore. His losses weren’t hers, and she didn’t want to hold them. She was in Queens, and it was 1993. But at the table it was 1953, and the Korean War refused to end.

A man is supposed to help you.

had taken her a decade of therapy to figure out this invaluable lesson: Your truest feelings led you to greater and greater success in life.

Does Narcissus ever take a holiday?

it wasn’t that she wanted to get married now, but every girl felt the insult not to be considered.

That was the thing he missed about marriage, always having someone around that you liked enough to do things with, to talk things over with. The problem was that at the end of his marriages, all he had wanted to do was never be home.

The wife you choose will be your personal and social mirror. She is how you see yourself,