She said that her father's death had been the hardest thing in her life. "We are all children until our fathers die.

You can feel that he wants to own you - not like an object but like a good dream he wants to keep having. He lets you know that you already own him.

We are all children until our fathers die.

I feel in some ways I've had a difficult life. And it makes me the kind of writer I am, in what I value, what I respect, what I hold dear.

In the cab to the station, he told me that when he was growing up he'd see a look of pleasure cross his mother's face and ask what she was thinking: she'd say, I was just thinking of your father. "That's how I want us to be," Archie said. I smiled. "What?" I said, "I was just thinking of your father.

You have to shrink yourself to fit into this little life with him.

It might sound ordinary for a woman to find out her husband's cheating on her, but not if you're the woman and it's your husband.