“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.… — 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… — Jennifer Dubois Copy Share Image
“One can become so sentimental about a person's absence, but it's impossible to be consistently sentimental in his presence - when you're… — Jennifer Dubois Copy Share Image
“Thinking more than a move ahead never got me anywhere in life. Only in chess. And even then it was sometimes a… — 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 we have to sit back and content ourselves with a shrug. But I think there are some things that we'd never understand even if we had forever to wonder. There are things that - even if… — Jennifer Dubois Copy Share
“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
