Addiction isnt about substance - you arent addicted to the substance, you are addicted to the alteration of mood that the substance brings.
Susan CheeverDogs are great teachers. They are at home in the world. They live in the moment, and they force us to stay there with them. Dogs love us unconditionally, not for our bodies or bank accounts.
Susan CheeverThe birth of a child is in many ways the end of a marriage - marriage including a child has to be reinvented, and reinvented at a time when both husband and wife are under unprecedented stress and the wife is exhausted, physically drained, and emotionally in shock. A man's conflict between wanting his child to have a mother and wanting to have the mother to himself is potentially intolerable.
Susan CheeverI believe that the memoir is the novel of the 21st century; itโs an amazing form that we havenโt even begun to tapโฆweโre just getting started figuring out what the rules are.
Susan Cheever