“Jean Kurek looked a bit like a field mouse herself, with her close-cut gray hair, in her shapeless gray dress—no zippers, no buttons. Stroke clothes. Her appearance was no more or less distinguished than it had been all her sixty-eight… — Robin Black Copy Share Image
“I had confessed fully-with all the misguided passion of one who believes that she is cleansing herself and forgets that she may be staining… — Robin Black Copy Share Image
“Rejection is part of the game. Or rather, rejection is part of the profession. A profession which at times can feel like a game.” — Robin Black Copy Share Image
“This is where they failed, all those years back, he believes. In taking care of one another when tragedy struck. It broke them, broke… — Robin Black Copy Share Image
“By forty, is there anyone who hasn’t had to recognize that happiness, as understood by youth, is illusory? That the best one can hope… — Robin Black Copy Share Image
“The notion of a country cottage settled in her thoughts as a watercolor, red bricks, climbing roses, the house the most intelligent of the… — Robin Black Copy Share Image
“... all of it conspiring to carry them through those first few minutes and through the front door of the house with a lightness… — Robin Black Copy Share Image
“You cannot write the pages you love without writing the pages you hate. Nothing that you write is pointless, useless, or unnecessary. The product… — Robin Black Copy Share Image
“How funny it was. The very thing that had broken her heart, now no longer wanted. A trick of time.” — Robin Black Copy Share Image
“Leaning in, he kisses her on the cheek. Like an old acquaintance, she thinks. As though there had never been any passion, nor love,… — Robin Black Copy Share Image
“Do whatever you have to do, avoid whatever you need to avoid, protect yourself however you need to protect yourself in order to stay… — Robin Black Copy Share Image
