“the secret of happy marriage: not honesty, not forgiveness, but acceptance that is a kind of respect for the other's right to make mistakes.” — Alice LaPlante Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you want the outside world to match your interior reality, you said to James once, trying to explain why you loved thunderstorms. Another… — Alice LaPlante Copy Share Image
“When thinking over one's life, it's the extreme moments that stand out. The peaks and the valleys. He was one of the highest peaks. In some ways looming larger than James. If James was a central mountain in the landscape of my life, then this other was a pinnacle of a different sort. Higher, sharper. You couldn't build upon its… — Alice LaPlante Copy Share
“I am a visitor from another planet, and the natives are not friendly.” — Alice LaPlante Copy Share Image
“You don't get emotional over a hand. A hand is a collection of thoughts.” — Alice LaPlante Copy Share Image
“Yes, Halloween excites me. That whole time of year, autumn, I find exhilarating. A passionate season. The others are so bland. In the fall,… — Alice LaPlante Copy Share Image
“People think it's just forgetting your keys, she says. Or the words for things. But there are the personality changes. The mood swings. The… — Alice LaPlante Copy Share Image
“the secret of happy marriage: not honesty, not forgiveness, but acceptance that is a kind of respect for the other's right to make mistakes.” — Alice LaPlante Copy Share Image
