“Rejection is part of the game. Or rather, rejection is part of the profession. A profession which at times can feel like… — Robin Black Game 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… — Robin Black Failed 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… — Robin Black Happiness 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… — Robin Black Cottage Copy Share Image
“It was 911 calling me. If you can believe it. Them calling me.” — Robin Black Believe 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 Funny Copy Share Image
“Make your skin as thick as you are able to, for your career. Keep it as thin as you can tolerate, for… — Robin Black Art Copy Share Image
“... all of it conspiring to carry them through those first few minutes and through the front door of the house with… — Robin Black Fresh start 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… — Robin Black Confessed Copy Share Image
“There were some kids at Tufts who had been in the army, but they stayed to themselves. I’m pretty sure we must… — Robin Black Like Babies 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… — Robin Black Protect yourself Copy Share Image
“I don’t think about Terry every day, anymore. And sometimes I’m stunned by that fact. It isn’t only the discomfort of disloyalty… — Robin Black Death 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.… — Robin Black Good day 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,… — Robin Black Kisses Copy Share Image
“Jean Kurek looked a bit like a field mouse herself, with her close-cut gray hair, in her shapeless gray dress—no zippers, no… — Robin Black Gray hair Copy Share Image
