“....and I'll know that this is what you live for - to hear someone say. "Let's go home," to hear someone you love call your name.” LoveHome Book:The Myth of You and Me Source: The Myth of You and Me
“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?” Family DramaWorryingParenting ChildrenTraumatizingObsessive Thinking Book:Husband and Wife Source: Husband and Wife
“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,” MarriageArgumentAngerInfidelity Book:Husband and Wife Source: Husband and Wife
“A happy ending isn't really the end. It's just the place where you choose to stop telling the story.” EndsStoriesYou ChooseHappy Endings Book:The Myth of You and Me: A Novel Source: The Myth of You and Me: A Novel
“To belong nowhere is a blessing and a curse, like any kind of freedom.” KindBlessingTravelCurse Book:The Myth of You and Me: A Novel Source: The Myth of You and Me: A Novel
“My father once told me that a happy ending is just the place where you choose to stop telling the story. So this is where I choose to stop. More things are still going to happen, of course, some good, some bad. Some things never get any better. When people die they stay dead. None of us knows why we love, or why we stop loving, or why everyone we love we lose.” PeopleKnowsStillsStoriesHappensDiesCoursesFatherLosesYou ChooseHappy Endings Author:Leah Stewart
“Once you know the end of the story, every part of the story contains that end, and is only a way of reaching it.” KnowsWayEndsStoriesReaching Book:The Myth of You and Me: A Novel Source: The Myth of You and Me: A Novel
“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.” PeopleIfsKindAmbitionMidwest Book:The History of Us: A Novel Source: The History of Us: A Novel