“So Sonia was not my only or even my first best friend. She was the last. It wasn t that I hadn t made friends since just that I thought myself past the age of that particular kind of friendship.… — Leah Stewart Copy Share Image
“Here was the secret of this house, the thing it took bravery to face -- that to go on loving someone means to over… — Leah Stewart Copy Share Image
“Every so often they exchanged these quick, knowing glances, each making sure the other one was still there, still with her. I wondered how… — Leah Stewart Copy Share Image
“…and I'll know that this is what you live for - to hear someone say. "Let's go home," to hear someone you love call… — Leah Stewart Copy Share Image
“I was going to click my heels and go home, where life would be, as it is anywhere, a little bit dull Knasas, a little bit great and terrible Oz. I just wanted to stand here for a minute, first, and fix in my memory the life I wasn't choosing, the way Rajiv looked at me before I told him… — Leah Stewart Copy Share
“Some people see their spouses as separate from them,' Megan says. 'And some people see their spouses as an extension of them, and that… — Leah Stewart Copy Share Image
“Even if Megan imagines differently, she [Jennifer] is not the tragic figure. Tommy is. Tommy always was. Nobody saw the tragedy in being the practical one. He was the one who fell painfully short of his potential, the one who even as he let his business flounder and drank too much and showed up late, continued to be though of… — Leah Stewart Copy Share
Once you know the end of the story, every part of the story contains that end, and is only a way of reaching it. — Leah Stewart Copy Share Image
“A happy ending is just the place where you choose to stop telling the story.” — Leah Stewart Copy Share Image
“The thing is, you make choices. You do some things and you don't do others and in the end there's not much point in asking what different choices might have gained you, and lost you, unless you have a time machine. You become those choices, you embody them... I'd known I couldn't stay, just as I'd known years before I… — Leah Stewart Copy Share
“The first time you fall in love, it's like you've created the first love in the universe, and the first time someone you love… — Leah Stewart Copy Share Image
“You like being in love with someone who’s not going to love you back.” She opened her eyes. He looked at her. “Why would… — Leah Stewart Copy Share Image
“I was traumatizing her. I could only hope that at three she was too young to retain any of this in memory, that in the years to follow I could make up for any future need for therapy I was creating now. Could I? Or would she always have a deep insecurity, the kind that send people careening from one… — Leah Stewart Copy Share
