“No?” This was a matter of some interest to Lily; when she and Harold had broken up, they had solemnly vowed to stay friends. And why wouldn’t they? They were both young and resilient and had had their hearts broken… — Jennifer duBois Copy Share Image
“But all that talk. All those confidences. He shuddered to think about it. At the time, though, he didn't know any better, and he… — Jennifer Dubois Copy Share Image
“What you imagine is what you remember, and what you remember is what you’re left with. So why not decide to imagine it a… — Jennifer Dubois Copy Share Image
“Learning to be an adult was learning that your best was rarely quite enough.” — Jennifer duBois Copy Share Image
“Everybody should have someone whose belief in them is unwavering, unconditional, always.” — Jennifer duBois Copy Share Image
“I will admit it sometimes felt strange to me to make the confession to someone and later catch them laughing, or flirting, or eating… — Jennifer Dubois Copy Share Image
“That's an applicable life lesson, my boy,' he'd said. 'Nobody is really paying attention to you. Most people don't really get this. They think… — Jennifer duBois Copy Share Image
“Sometimes there are things we don't understand even about ourselves. Sometimes we run out of the time to keep trying to unravel them, and… — Jennifer Dubois Copy Share Image
“She submitted to his embrace with the resignation of a person who has already planned to take away something enormous, and so has no… — Jennifer duBois Copy Share Image
“Well, we spent enough on gymnastics.' 'Christ, did we,' said Maureen. 'So many lessons.' So many lessons, it was true: art and music and… — Jennifer duBois Copy Share Image
“And anyway, the anticipation was always worse than the thing itself - the anticipation and the memory, of course. And the anticipation of the… — Jennifer duBois Copy Share Image
“There wasn't a single cell in our bodies that was the same as the day we were born, and yet we were still held… — Jennifer duBois Copy Share Image
“The city had seemed grand to him once ... it had once had a certain clarity. When you're young you think it's the clarity… — Jennifer duBois Copy Share Image
“He could hear his knees crack, and it made him feel old. You had to live so terribly long to actually be old, but… — Jennifer Dubois Copy Share Image
“My father had a healthy disregard for social conventions: he once let me paint the house windows in rainbows with my watercolor set, to… — Jennifer Dubois Copy Share Image
