“A couple of years ago my sister Judy and I were each given a box of truffles. The tiny print said two… — Abigail Thomas Copy Share Image
“Forget career, forget the future, forget existential worries, just get yourselves a couple of dogs, and everything will be all right.” — Abigail Thomas Copy Share Image
“There are those people who can eat one piece of chocolate, one piece of cake, drink one glass of wine. There are even people… — Abigail Thomas Copy Share Image
“There is nothing like calamity for refreshing the moment. Ironically, the last several years my life had begun to feel shapeless, like underwear with… — Abigail Thomas Copy Share Image
“Part of what I've learned is that if it isn't life and death, it isn't life and death.” — Abigail Thomas Copy Share Image
“He is wearing an old overcoat from the Salvation Army in Easton, Pennsylvania. It cost five bucks ten years ago, Louise remembers. Henry is… — Abigail Thomas Copy Share Image
“Take any ten years of your life, reduce them to two pages, and every sentence has to be three words long. It's a good… — Abigail Thomas Copy Share Image
“Is memory property? If two people remember something differently is one of them wrong?” — Abigail Thomas Copy Share Image
“Good things happen slowly,” said a doctor in the ICU months ago, “and bad things happen fast.” — Abigail Thomas Copy Share Image
“A friend's mother ate nothing but clams for six months. Morning, noon, and night, nothing but clams. 'I don't know what it is -… — Abigail Thomas Copy Share Image
“...but they were writers and writers suggest things just to see what happens next.” — Abigail Thomas Copy Share Image
