“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 was filled the gleeful lurching and teeth-chattering panic of early and undiagnosed love.” — Jennifer Dubois Copy Share Image
“Forgiveness was work, Eduardo told victims' families--but so, then, was love, and deciding what was right, and defending it. Recusing yourself from judgment so you won't be tainted by the aggressor's sin is the same as turning away from empathy… — 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 ice-skating; Lily's every fleeting interest enthusiastically, abundantly indulged. Not to mention the many more practical investments--chemistry tutoring when she struggled, English enrichment when she excelled, SAT courses to propel her to the school and then, presumably,… — Jennifer duBois Copy Share
“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
