I have these "pinch me" moments when I realize I got to be the thing I wanted to be growing up. I'm right where I belong.
Jennifer WeinerI don't trust happiness. I turn it over as if it were a glass at a flea market or a rug at a souk, looking for chipped rims or loose threads.
Jennifer WeinerThe way I see it,โ she began, โyour motherโs devoted her whole life to you kids.โ She said โyou kidsโ in precisely the same tone I would have used for โyou infestation of cockroaches
Jennifer WeinerThey say - "they" being the great philosophers, or possibly the cast of Seinfeld - that breaking up is like pushing over a Coke machine. You can't just do it, you have to set the thing in motion, rock it back and forth a few times.
Jennifer WeinerMaybe love was a myth anyhow, a brew of hormones and fantasy, evolution's way of getting men and women together long enough for them to procreate,back in the day when girls got pregnant at twelve, were pregnant or nursing for the next twenty years, and were dead of the plague by forty.
Jennifer Weiner