To me, marriage is the ultimate mystery.
It's impossible to compete with the dead. I wished I could stop trying.
My dad had limitations. That's what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he meant no harm. It was kind of her to say, but he did do harm.
Everytime people said I was pretty, I thought of everything ugly swarming beneath my clothes.
The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty - we all have it.
People say children from broken homes have it hard, but the children of charmed marriages have their own particular challenges.