There are people we treat wrong and later, we're prepared to treat other people right.
Curtis SittenfeldI guess because twins have this mystique, and triplets - I think the normal sibling connection potentially can be very powerful, and there's this idea that it's even more powerful. It really is, not just someone like me, but another version of me.
Curtis SittenfeldI guess in life I find people who, at first glance, appear to be very typical or average, whatever that means, and then turn out to have hidden qualities.
Curtis SittenfeldShe opened her mouth but did not immediately speak, and I felt, simultaneously, the impulse to coax the words from her and the impulse to suppress them. I always thought I wanted to know a secret, or I wanted an event to unfold โ I wanted my life to start โ but in those rare moments when it seemed like something might actually change, panic shot through me.
Curtis Sittenfeld