She thought of what it would be like to grow up without the one certainty that every baby deseved - when I'm hurt or cold or scared, someone will come and care for me - and how that absence could warp you so that you'd lash out at the people you loved, driving them away when all you wanted to do was pull them closer.
Jennifer WeinerEveryone has sorrow. Everyone has obligations. Everyone keeps going. You lean on the people who love you. You do the best you can, and you keep going.
Jennifer WeinerThis is the meanest thing anyoneโs ever done to me,โ I said, through my tear-clogged throat. โI want you to know that.โ But even as the words were leaving my mouth, I knew it wasnโt true. In the grand, historical scheme of things, my father leaving us was doubtlessly worse. Which is one of the many things that sucked about my father?? he forever robbed me of the possibility of telling another man, This is the worst thing thatโs ever happened to me, and meaning it.
Jennifer Weiner