“Leaning in, he kisses her on the cheek. Like an old acquaintance, she thinks. As though there had never been any passion, nor love, nor rage, nor anything much, just some traces of innocuous familiarity between them. Live long enough,… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“... 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
“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
“How funny it was. The very thing that had broken her heart, now no longer wanted. A trick of time.” — Robin Black Copy Share
“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
“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
“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 I feel,… — Robin Black Copy Share
“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… — Robin Black Copy Share
